This comes courtesy of the March/April issue of Zymurgy .

There's a law in Texas that states that microbreweries can't sell directly to the consumer, but instead have to sell to a middleman (that's LAME). Not surprisingly 14 of 19 microbreweries in the state have failed.

But a group called Friends of Texas Microbreweries started a campaign to fight the laws. 

Check out the group's blog at http://starnoldgoestoaustin.com/blog/