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Hardy's Ale gets lost in the system

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From: Oakland Tribune
Date: 20061206
Author:William Brand

THIS is a sad story about Thomas Hardy's Vintage Ale , a great, pioneering English beer and our Beer of the Week. It's been saved from oblivion only by the extreme efforts of an importer only to be frustrated by distance and America's weird, post-Prohibition "three- tier" system that separates brewers and importers from their retail customers by a middle-tier system of distributors.

You and I, the beer drinkers, only see the beer at our favorite store or on tap at our local pub. But a vast distribution network is behind the scenes. When Prohibition ended in 1933, the government did not want ...

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