View metadata, citation and similar papers at core.ac.uk brought to you by CORE provided by Scholarly Commons The University of the Pacific Law Review Volume 50 Article 8 Issue 3 Symposium -- Judge Posner and Contract Law 1-1-2019 The Antitrust Roadblock: Preventing Consolidation of the Craft Beer Market Aric Codog Follow this and additional works at: https://scholarlycommons.pacific.edu/uoplawreview Part of the Law Commons Recommended Citation Aric Codog, The Antitrust Roadblock: Preventing Consolidation of the Craft Beer Market, 50 U. Pac. L. Rev. 403 (2019). Available at: https://scholarlycommons.pacific.edu/uoplawreview/vol50/iss3/8 This Comments is brought to you for free and open access by the Journals and Law Reviews at Scholarly Commons. It has been accepted for inclusion in The nivU ersity of the Pacific Law Review by an authorized editor of Scholarly Commons. For more information, please contact
[email protected]. Comments The Antitrust Roadblock: Preventing Consolidation of the Craft Beer Market Aric Codog* TABLE OF CONTENTS I. INTRODUCTION ................................................................................................ 404 II. THE CRAFT BEER MARKET ............................................................................ 406 III. THE REGULATION OF ALCOHOL ................................................................... 408 A. The Three-Tiered Distribution System ................................................ 409 1. Roots of the Three-Tier System ...................................................