Massachusetts’ Franchise Reform Finally Makes it to the Finish Line

Dear Client: It’s been a long road, but franchise reform is now a signature away from finally, finally happening in Massachusetts. You’ll recall that after decades of haggling, mostly on where to put the brewer barrelage cap for leaving a distributor, Massachusetts’ brewers and distributors finally reached some middle ground on the dispute in July of last year [see CBD 07-20-2020].   The compromise reached would allow any brewer under 250,000 barrels a year to terminate a distributor without cause with