Complex sentence: When the Prohibition laws were repealed, larger beer plants, such as Anheuser-Busch, moved to Texas making life harder on the smaller independent breweries, but Spoetzl kept things small and simple, never going more than 70 miles for business.
Split into simpler sentences: When the prohibition laws were repealed, larger beer companies, such as Anheuser-Busch, moved into Texas making life harder on the smaller independent breweries. Spoetzl however, kept things small and simple, never going more than 70 miles for business.