Cubby_Swans,
The breweries are not pushing this initiative as much as the state legislature would be. The keg tracking paper work is designed to track where the keg is going and who is consuming the beer more so than the deposit process. This system makes it convenient to track the deposit program.
With the costs of raw goods going up on everything, most certainly the brewery would be concerned with losing kegs. If their keg costs are inflated, this will eventually be passed onto the consumers. Therefore, they put pressure on the wholesalers and then the wholesalers put pressure on the retailer resulting in actions that attempt to acquire as much cooperage as possible for return to the brewery to be refilled.
The breweries have the consumer in mind everyday with their lobbying efforts to keep government from hand cuffing the industry.
If there is anyone to blame for high deposit costs and strict return policies that are now in place, put it on the salvage whores who incent thieves to illegally acquire kegs for their gain.
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