What is a Beer Distributor?
America’s beer distributors provide transportation, refrigerated storage and maintenance for beer, a perishable product, from the time it leaves a brewer or importer until it arrives at a retailer such as your neighborhood bar, restaurant or convenience store. Beer Distributors… Work Within an Effective State-Based System of Alcohol Regulation America’s 2,850 beer distributors are licensed by both the state and the federal government. They source beer only from licensed importers or brewers, and they sell only to licensed retailers. Alcohol is not like toilet paper or toothpaste and is not regulated the same way as other products. Alcohol is also the subject of two constitutional amendments. State-based regulation of alcohol, which was established by the 21st Amendment, allows each state the flexibility to deal with local needs, demands and circumstances. A one-size-fits-all approach to alcohol regulation does not work. People in New York feel very differently about alcohol than thos
