Dispute taps Bell's out of the Illinois market
The Chicago Tribune has an article today about Bell's Brewery pulling out of the IL market.
Here's a link to a wikipedia page since the Tribune's page died a while ago.
Long story short, Bell's feel that it's distributer Chicago Beverage is screwing it over pretty much, for more profitable macro brews, so it's only recourse really was to pull out of IL totally.
Bell's has always been one of those hit or miss brewery's for us, and the price's have always been a little high. But the funny thing is until we thought about it and went through the list we didn't realize how many of the brews we'd miss.
And a few others' we haven't reviewed, including their sparkling ale.