Taproom, Quality and SKU Concerns Endure

Dear Client:You probably could have guessed that SKUs would be a big topic at the 79th Annual NBWA Convention here in Chicago. And you'd have been correct.Reps from all three tiers agreed this morning that we're probably at an inflection point with proliferation. On a craft-heavy panel, moderator Eric Best laid out the math: there are more than 6,700 permitted breweries in the U.S. Most of them produce less than 100,000 cases per year. What that translates to at retail