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The Great Debate: The Three-Tier System Is Fundamentally Broken, The Growler, January 27, 2020
The Craft Brewing Boom and Minnesota's Three-Tier System: The Case for Change, Mitchell Hamline Law Review, Volume 43, Issue 5 (2017)
So You Want to Start Your Own Brewery?, The Growler, December 18, 2012
So You Want to Start Your Own Distillery?, July 1, 2014
So You Want to Start Your Own Cidery? Ten Legal Steps You Need to Take, June 13, 2017
Tapping Into a Growing Client Base, Minnesota Lawyer, April 7, 2014
Is Minnesota Brewing a Craft Beer Bubble? City Pages, October 5, 2016
Could Law Changes Lead to a Brewery Boom in Minnesota?, February 20, 2011
"Minnesota Distilling Industry Grows as Longstanding Laws Change", Moonshiner to Craft Distillery: Leading Lawyers on the Business of Distilling (2016)
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Town crier delivers Bud Light's cease-and-desist letter to craft brewer over its 'Dilly Dilly' beer, ABA Journal, December 6, 2017
Dilly Dilly! Minnesota's Modist brewery greeted with medieval cease and desist, The Sacramento Bee, December 5, 2017
Minneapolis' Modist Brewery receives medieval-style cease-and-desist order, StarTribune, December 1, 2017
Modist releases 'Dilly Dilly' double IPA, is immediately hit with hilarious cease and desist from Anheuser-Busch,
City Pages, December 1, 2017
What's the Deal With the New "Independent Craft Brewer" Seal?, August 10, 2017
What’s On Tap from the World of Brewery Law, May 12, 2017
Changes on Tap: What's Next for Law Changes in the Craft Beverage Industry, Minnesota Lawyer, December 21, 2016
Naming Breweries, Beers Becoming Challenge, St. Cloud Times, August 29, 2015
Brewing Up Disputes: Beer Names and Trademarks, January 22, 2015
Urban Growler Uses ‘Founding Members’ Perks to Attract Investors — and Ambassadors, Minnesota Business, November 2014
Brew Crew Changing the Face of Beer Drinking in Wright County, North Wright County Today, September 4, 2014
Show Me the Money: Crowdfunding Your Brewery, The Growler, July 25, 2014
Worker Classifcation Issues for Breweries 101, June 2014
Gap Financing for Breweries (Special Guest Post by Annie Deckert, Decklan Group), June 18, 2014
No Sunday Growler Sales, But...: A Look at New Minnesota Liquor Laws, June 6, 2014
ICYMI: Minnesota Craft Beer and the Law, Saturdays With Siri, May 3, 2014
Teamsters vs. Beer: the Push for Sunday Taproom and Growler Sales in Minnesota and What it Says About Minnesota’s Outdated and Nonsensical Liquor Laws, April 29, 2014
The SEC’s New General Solicitation Rule: Will it Really Help Breweries Raise Funds Faster?, St. Michael-Albertville Patch, September 10, 2013
Save the Growler!, February 24, 2013
City of Minneapolis to Microbreweries: We’re Open For Business
Prohibition’s Progeny: Understanding Minnesota’s Three-Tiered Alcohol Distribution System
Surly Law Moves to the Cities
The Basics of Minnesota’s Brewer Taproom License, July 21, 2011
How the Beer Industry Ended Minnesota’s Government Shutdown, July 16, 2011
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