It's official....we're in a depression: Beer Sales Down 2.6% since last year....

[BaiHu]

http://www.businessinsider.com/beer-sales-are-dropping-fast-in-america-2013-7?utm_source=feedburner&utm_medium=feed&utm_campaign=Feed%3A+businessinsider+%28Business+I nsider%29

[Coyotesfan97]

Say it isn't so! At least I've done my part.


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[RoyGBiv]

But Makers Mark wants to dilute their product by 2% so they can meet growing demand...
And Buffalo Trace is projecting a shortage (http://www.foxnews.com/leisure/2013/05/24/kentucky-distillery-warns-bourbon-shortage/) as well.

Why drink beer when Bourbon is more better?

[Mr_White]

Why drink beer when Bourbon is more better?

This I can agree with!

[Tamara]

I'm holding up my end, ya bunch of slackers. :p

[Joe in PNG]

I'm trying to hold up my end, but when your choice is either 'flavored mineral spirits' for $35 a bottle, or 'the good stuff' for $150 a bottle... coffee and tea look pretty good.

[Tamara]

I'm trying to hold up my end, but when your choice is either 'flavored mineral spirits' for $35 a bottle, or 'the good stuff' for $150 a bottle... coffee and tea look pretty good.

Yeah, I'd go Temperance under those conditions, too.

[Nephrology]

Yeah, I'd go Temperance under those conditions, too.

I'd go broke, then blind from methanol poisoning....

[LHS]

Considering I can no longer drink beer, y'all might want to sell off any related stock. Buy stock in rum distilleries instead, I can still drink that.

[Clyde from Carolina]

I'm holding up my end, ya bunch of slackers. :p

Me, too. Bought a sixer of Einbecker, another of Jever, and two big pint + size Thornbridge Kipling brews at the beer store this week. Told the beer guy my fancy beer budget was all spent for the week. :rolleyes:

[littlejerry]

Big beer is taking a beating. They are losing market share to micro brews and spirits. Ironically they aren't concerned about the micro movement and see spirits as the main competition.

Boutique whiskey/bourbon is the in thing right now. It would really take off if it was legal to distill at home

[Corlissimo]

Big beer is taking a beating. They are losing market share to micro brews and spirits. Ironically they aren't concerned about the micro movement and see spirits as the main competition.

Boutique whiskey/bourbon is the in thing right now. It would really take off if it was legal to distill at home

Isn't it legal to distill at home? I thought you just can't sell or distribute it, just like brewing your own beer or making your own wine, no?


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[Tamara]

Big beer is taking a beating.

Who drinks that stuff anyway?

[Drang]

Big beer is taking a beating.


Who drinks that stuff anyway?
Yeah, you call that stuff beer?

[Tamara]

Yeah, you call that stuff beer?

Today: North Coast Blue Star (http://beeradvocate.com/beer/profile/112/407) on draft with lunch, and a couple bottles of Red Hook Wise Cracker Wit (http://beeradvocate.com/beer/profile/18134/68941) on the porch with a book 'long about sundown.

Do they still make Budweiser?

[Dropkick]

I wonder what the ratio of beer sales in bars to beer sales in stores was and now is.

I know a few guys that have stopped buying $7 beers at the bar when the can get a 6 pack of the same beer for $7 at the Stop 'n Rob.

[littlejerry]

Isn't it legal to distill at home? I thought you just can't sell or distribute it, just like brewing your own beer or making your own wine, no?


~ Typos brought to you by my lazyness & in attention to detail.

Illegal to distill for consumption at the federal level. Some states allow it but the ATF does not.

You can get a permit to become a distillery but then you are subject to unannounced inspections by the ATF.