How Many Retail Outposts are Too Many?

Dear Client:Sister publication Craft Business Daily has been covering the sparring between Arizona's craft brewers and the Arizona Wine and Spirits Wholesale Association over how many retail outlets brewers should be able to maintain as they grow past certain caps. (Notably, local beer distributor coalitions have so far sided with the craft brewers on this one.) It's actually an industry-wide question, with tied house and three tier implications. And it's spreading: craft brewer retail-related battles wage from Montana to Florida