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Sorry I wasn’t clear, only talking about retail distribution, not direct package sales.

No question plenty of breweries have found a way to be successful outside of normal retail. But they should be able to distribute, without large multinationals strong arming retailers in to not carrying competitors products.

Absolutely agree that many breweries have been successful not distributing

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No worries, I wasn't sure if that's what you might have meant. Night Shift near Boston actually started their own distribution company which has helped a ton of local breweries get their beer out of saturated areas and into new markets where they might do better. Right now it's mostly them distributing New England beer to Chicago and a few other areas in the NE and then picking up beer from Pipeworks in Chicago and bringing it back to distribute up here.

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