I will leave you with one note of optimism, from Mark Perry. I went to college in the nadir (1980) of the American beer industry, where a small oligopoly of mediocre beer producers was protected by government legislation. It was a classic example of how regulation drives monopoly, consolidation, and loss of choice. With deregulation, the American beer industry has exploded.
Tuesday, March 31, 2015
We live in the best of all possible worlds
Stay thirsty, my friends:
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There's 5 in my immediate area (or 6 depending on how you want to count it, one of them just opened a bottling plant/another restaurant to go along with their main location). Not bad for a town with 130,000 people.
New York State has done a lot in the past 10 or 15 years to promote the wine industry, not just the big companies like Constellation Brands but also little family-run wineries. More recently the state has made it easier for family farms to obtain a brewery license, so we're seeing a lot of microbreweries start up. And now they're doing it for distilleries.
Now is a great time to be an alcoholic!
Who are you kidding? You also went to college when 18 year olds could legally drink. You wouldn't have known what a good tasting beer was if it bit you.
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