Craft Brewers Take on Distributors, Our Take

April 2, 2014Dear Client: The craft brewers have stepped up their rhetoric against beer distributors this week, as Brooklyn Brewery co-founder Steve Hindy writes an op-ed in the New York Times and an appearance on CNBC characterizing state franchise laws as empowering "distributors to select brands and manage them however they want -- selling those they choose to sell, while letting other brands sit in their warehouses. The only recourse is to sue, and many small breweries lack even a