While franchise law carve-outs for craft brewers have historically been the focus of state craft brewer guilds' focus over the years with mixed results, the legal ability of brewers to sell directly to the public via taprooms has become the "tip of the spear at the state level" for guilds lately as franchise law reform has taken somewhat of "a back seat," said veteran bev-alc lawyer Marc Sorini at the Craft Brewers Conference last week.