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Meet the Beer Bottle Dictator
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Widely regarded as an eccentric bureaucrat, Kent ‘Battle’ Martin approves essentially every beer label in the United States, giving him awesome power over a huge industry.
Tim Mak
Published
Aug. 12 2014
5:45AM EDT
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