December 2013
| Business World Magazine | 169
cause it’s a model they’ve always had.
There they have always operated with
small, local breweries,” Stebbins says. “In
fact, most of our suppliers back then were
European-based, because only a couple
of people were working to supply small
brewers. Most of the suppliers here, and
across the country, were used to working
with these huge amounts of product that
we simply didn’t need.”