PUT DOWN, for five fucking minutes, the IPA glass and at least try something that you have assumed, on no evidence, you wouldn’t like. Because you MIGHT. And it MIGHT change the way you look at a LOT of what’s overlooked in this country.
For those brewers who do NOT want to hang it up, this idea may well be a viable means of continuing the brand at a lower-impact scale.
I do not think, by any means, that the entirety of American journalism has simply sold out to the lunatic Right…and here’s why.
As far as I am concerned, there is NO EXCUSE for ANY functionally intelligent American adult to be drinking ANY beverage from global mass-producers. NONE.
Ultra-premium beverages do not matter. They are not a part of the universe that the VAST majority of us live in.
These are, without exaggeration, some of the best values you will ever run across in wine and has no relationship at all to the quality of the wine.
Let’s stop seeing the consequences of our continued support of beers like Budweiser and Coors and Miller and Pabst as abstractions. They are NOT.
Yes, the paradigm has changed. NO, that is NOT a harbinger of impeding doom, the oft-whined about “death of craft beer”.
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