Distributor’s tactics cost us $1.7 million, beer importer says
A lawsuit is giving loud and emphatic voice to a complaint craft brewers have whispered for years: that a handful of large beer distributors, enabled by antiquated state laws, manipulate the Massachusetts beer market for their own benefit by bullying smaller companies.
The legal broadside comes from Shelton Brothers Inc., a Belchertown beer importer that has challenged distributors and alcohol laws in a number of states. On Friday, Shelton sued Craft Brewers Guild, the Everett distributor at the center of the “pay-to-play” scandal roiling the state’s beer industry, alleging that company’s “unfair and illegal” practices cost it $1.7 million in lost sales.
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