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RYAN: This is a guest post, of sorts, from John Conlin. John runs Conlin Beverage Consulting. We wrote about him – and a few other things beer and distributor related – a couple of weeks ago after he and I were among a handful of presenters at the Associated Beer Distributors of Illinois’ annual meeting [...]  RYAN: “You sure do have some gumption…walking in to that room, saying the things you said.” I wheeled around to see an unnamed distributor wearing a black pullover with a grey Bud logo over his heart grinning at me. He found me pacing the hallway outside of the Picasso Ballroom at the Omni Hotel [...]  Photo Courtesy ABDI, Facebook RYAN: As you read this I have most likely already begun my presentation; talking about breweries, farm-to-table brewpubs and why guys that have trucks with “Budweiser” on them should give a damn. Today, I am speaking before the Associated Beer Distributors of Illinois. A number of people will be speaking [...]  It’s term paper day, of sorts, at the Illinois Commerce Commission. Today, responses are due from the parties who attended last month’s hearing before the Illinois Liquor Control Commission to determine if Anheuser-Busch can keep it’s 30-percent stake in Chicago area distributor City Beverage. We previewed the hearing here and detailed the bombshell dropped [...]  As beer-industry bombshells go, a pretty substantial one was dropped during a hearing last Wednesday involving Anheuser-Busch, distributors in Illinois and the Illinois Liquor Control Commission. We told you about the hearing last week, but to quickly recap, it was held to discuss A-B’s 30% stake in City Beverage, which is made up for [...]  What? There’s more? Wasn’t this put to bed over the summer when the Illinois General Assembly passed, and the governor signed, SB 754? Actually, no. Self distribution, craft brewers licenses and the barrel production limits to be considered a craft brewer in the state that came along with the aforementioned legislation was actually a [...] |  The pain of the day after an evening of RIS, BCCBS and specialty release tasting is well worth it. #foreshadowing #reviewscoming4 hours ago @UplandBrewCo Double weird is the fact that the #tbk hashtag seems to send me to nothing but Malaysian twitter updates.4 hours ago  RT @guysdrinkinbeer: Prepare yourselves accordingly. RT @beerad: Chicago craft beer week set for 11 days in May, the 17th - 27th. http://t.co/igmIBkvi6 hours ago Prepare yourselves accordingly. RT @beerad: Chicago craft beer week set for 11 days in May, the 17th - 27th. http://t.co/igmIBkvi6 hours ago | ||||
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