There is a belief out there that beer is recession proof. Proponents of this idea point to the smaller recession in recent decades where sales of beer improved while the rest of the economy retracted. The idea is that as money gets tighter people want to continue to drink - or drink more […]
Filed under: Beer on May 30th, 2009 | No Comments »
Have you noticed a change in the look of Jim Beam’s bottles? Well, if you haven’t yet you will soon.
I usually have a bottle of Jim Beam somewhere in the house. I like bourbon and, while JB isn’t my favorite, it’s certainly affordable and very decently palatable. It’s my ‘every day’ whiskey.
For […]
Filed under: whiskey, Bourbon on May 27th, 2009 | No Comments »
I’m a snobbish beer geek. I know it; I own it. Therefore I tend to look askance at anything a big brewer does be it Anheuser-Busch, Diego, Miller or Inbev. I always suspect that they are up to something besides making better beer.
I’ve softened my view a little in the last couple […]
Filed under: Beer, marketing, guinness on May 15th, 2009 | No Comments »
Victims of the same tragedy often feel a bond even is they don’t know one another. There’s a sort of ‘no one understands me like my brother’ feeling between them.
So it’s understandable that the residents of New Orleans can feel a connection with the residents of Fargo after the flood they recently endured. […]
Filed under: Beer on May 10th, 2009 | No Comments »
Remember a few weeks ago when that fake news story about herpes and beer pong was misinterpreted as real? Suddenly everyone was talking about how beer pong players were at risk of catching any number of VDs from their sport. Well, we now know that one isn’t at significantly higher risk of catching […]
Filed under: Beer, Beer Pong on May 7th, 2009 | 1 Comment »