6 Ways Craft Beer Can Pour Profits into Your Bottom Line
A recent feature by The Washington Post explored the new trend of restaurants removing “big beer” from their drink menus altogether. When asked, quality of product and the supplier’s business practices were the chief reasons as to why they made the move. Opposing the monopolization of the market, business owners and beer drinkers are taking a stand, choosing to fill their pints in support of local, independent “mom and pop” breweries.
Beside the moral upside to carrying independent breweries’ beers, craft choices usually involve a wider variety of highly curated ingredients, leading to more complex flavors in each pour. They also tend to have a higher alcohol content than their domestic counterparts, yet another reason why they’ve become such a fan favorite among recreational beer-enthusiasts.
With thousands of new breweries popping up each year, providing (potentially) millions of flavors and tastes to choose from, where does one begin when it comes to sifting through the noise and finding quality, revenue-generating brews that pass the beer snob sniff test? Read more here, from Fast Casual.
New Hampshire Sets Wine Week
Wine tastings, dinners and talks will occur Jan. 22-28, including talks by Gina Gallo, third generation winegrower with E. & J. Gallo Winery; Laura Catena, a fourth-generation Argentine vintner with Bodega Catena Zapata and her own Luca Winery in Mendoza, Argentina; Cristina Mariani-May, CEO of Banfi Vintners in Tuscany; and Cynthia Lohr, co-owner of J. Lohr Vineyards in California.
Tuesday in Bev/Al History
The 18th Amendment, which launched the Prohibition Era, began its short career Jan. 16, 1919. Considered by some a well-intentioned act (of social hygiene), it sought to ban the availability of alcoholic beverages. The unintended consequences, though, were perhaps worse — vast flouting of the law by the public and a boost to organized crime. Prohibition was repealed in December 1933. In the no-longer-dry U.S., there are over 31,000 beer, wine and liquor stores, with annual sales over $36 billion.