Gary Fish, Founder and CEO of Deschutes Brewery
discusses beer matters in his blog
I couldn't help but want to share this with my readers. I just discovered a relatively new blog by the founder and CEO of Bend, Oregon's Deschutes Brewery. I've added his blog to this page's list of feeds RSS feeds.
His essay on "The Economy of Beer" is an interesting one. Here is one sentence from each of his paragraphs:
I can’t tell you how many people have suggested to me lately that beer is “recession proof”, half tongue-in-cheek, but half seriously...
It has also been suggested that, in a recession, the products that do the best are alcohol and cosmetics...
People could easily spend their hard earned dollars on a less expensive, commodity-like beer as a reflection of the economic times, but it seems they are frequently choosing differently...
I am not a big one for New Year’s resolutions, but as we welcome this New Year, I for one resolve to not let the bastards get me down...
For the full story visit this blog essay
Comments
Seen this past November in SW Ireland. A hand-made sign posted in the window of a pub said: "Have A Session, Forget the Recession". Amen to that. Slainte.
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