Despite a brilliant disguise, I was not able to attend a closed meeting of California distributors hosted by the California Beer and Beverage Distributors, lead by president Victoria Horton. Before the meeting, there were whispers that the state association was on the brink of breaking up, after Constellation was successful in strong-arming both Markstein Beverage and Triangle Distributing into selling their distribution rights to Reyes' companies, albeit at a reported healthy 7x GP,