date:Nov 07, 2012
nd is nearly a third owned by AB InBev.
Post-Prohibition era rules ban brewers in 38 states from distributing their own beers to retailers. As a result, there is a middle tier of largely independent wholesalers, over 3,000 of them. Small craft brewers rely on these wholesalers to get their beers to the market, and they fear that AB InBev's clout will keep their beer off delivery trucks.
Senators Christopher Coons and Thomas Carper and three others agree. They sent a letter on October 2 to the