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Message: [QUOTE="HuskyHawk, post: 3856182, member: 1414"] I don't understand this line of thinking at all. Same with Trillium, which also doesn't distribute, and which is my local craft brewery. Not sure if you know much about them, but they started brewing on a farm in Brimfield. The first time I went out to the expanded brewery at the farm in Monson owned by the family of one of the founding guys. It was January, snowing and there was a line. We could get 10 cans only. It was small capacity then, but had become known (about like Tilted Barn now in RI). Eventually they did well enough to buy the land in Charlton and build the new brewery. They have since changed that brewery a few times to improve the experience. They bought a farm in Woodstock, CT, to grow fruit, and other things. They are expanding to add tap rooms and can sales locations in Cape Cod and Western, MA. They strike me as people who are doing what they can to help provide jobs and opportunities in the rural communities they serve. They are a fantastic example of small business done right. But I guess you want them to distribute through the massive corporate entities that control that process, and lose the freshness that is the hallmark of their beers. They sell unpasteurized, unfiltered beers that must remain refrigerated. So do a lot of the companies selling IPAs through distribution. Do you see those beers in the cooler all the time? Are they being sold within a week or so of canning? I do support the smaller local breweries around here as well (like Cold Harbor I posted to start the thread) and we all should. [/QUOTE]

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