Last week I was sitting at a sidewalk table at Brasserie Beck in Washington, D.C., enjoying a plate of mussels, the company of my wife and a “Lost and Found Abbey Ale” when I said to myself, “It’s high time I got around to writing that piece on beer distribution that’s been sitting in the back of my head for a while.” So, with the stock market in correction mode, and (hopefully) some of your investable assets sitting on the sidelines waiting for better opportunities, here it is. Nearly a century ago, before Prohibition was enacted in 1919, beer...