Craft Brewers Sue Texas Over Law That Takes Part of Their Business, Forces Them to Give it to Distributors For Free

(Before It's News)

All around the country beer distributors are making life difficult for craft brewers and beer drinkers. Whether in Florida where distributors were trying to make it so that brewers had to first sell their beer to distributors and then buy the beer back at a markup even if the beer was literally sold IN THE BREWERY, to this scam in Texas. The old boys are leaning on their crony friends in statehouses to protect the old way of doing business.

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