Oregon producers want to sell their products in grocery stores. Grocers want that too, but the OLCC and Oregon beer and wine distributors are opposed.
By Nigel Jaquiss
Oregon Journalism Project
Ben Brewer’s Bend distillery, Forth Distilled Goods, is selling a lot of ready-to-drink cocktails in Idaho grocery stores.
But in Oregon, only the state’s 285 liquor stores are allowed to carry Forth’s products. By law, the state’s 792 grocery stores may not sell them,…