NBWA: Craft Brewers Growing Because of Franchise Laws, Not in Spite Of

Dear Client: The craft brewers and distributors have been trading spars of late. Steve Hindy's New York Times op-ed has been the hot topic of conversation amongst distributors at the beginning of the NBWA's Spring Legislative Conference in Washington DC, where your editor is haunting the halls. And it appears the BA's strategy of a "shot across the bow" in an apparent effort to force NBWA into negotiations on franchise law may not have had the desired effect. One NBWA