An interesting letter to the editor in The Journal News suggesting that the cost to produce separate UPCs for New York may deter craft brewers from distributing in the state:
...There are plenty of other deprived states that will gladly take New York's share of these limited beers. Yuengling Brewery has already announced to its distributors that it is pulling out of the state as of June 1 if this is not overturned...
I had missed the Yuengling story so I went searching for a second source, and found it in a St. Louis Post-Dispatch article that includes the following quote from Dick Yuengling in a letter to NY Governor Paterson:
This law "will add up to much higher prices and less choice for all NY state beer consumers... While these may be unintended consequences, they will be consequences nonetheless and, ultimately, the effects will be far reaching throughout the state, including the possibility of major job losses throughout the industry in NY State. We view the provisions in this legislation as anti-competitive and anti-consumer, and it is the residents in the state of NY that will ultimately suffer from this."
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