John’s Grocery in the news
Ratebeer.com has a featured article on John’s Grocery. It is very well written and has some interesting discussion on Iowa’s infamous three tier system.
I’m not entirely sure if I agree with him that the Three Tier System should stay. Its true that A-B did outcompete and destroy many of the former regional breweries.. but it did that AFTER prohibition and under the Three Tier laws that we currently have.
The system does protect us from having A-B outright own bars, but in practice, they do anyway. The main difference between us and them is that if we break the three tiers we’ll get caught, and if they slink around it, they have plenty of lawyers, lobbyists and free give away’s to back them up.
I expect the supreme court will rule on Costco VS the state of washington sometime next year. It will be interesting.