Captain Obvious
03-13-2015, 08:11 AM
The beer culture in this country just flat out sucks.
http://www.npr.org/blogs/thesalt/2015/03/12/392550170/a-craft-beer-tax-battle-is-brewing-on-capitol-hill
Congressman Patrick McHenry is a man who knows his beer. The refrigerator in his Capitol Hill office is filled to the brim with it. The Republican's district includes the city of Asheville, N.C., which claims (http://www.npr.org/blogs/thesalt/2014/05/28/316317087/big-breweries-move-into-small-beer-town-and-business-is-hopping) it has more breweries per capita than any other U.S. city.
"Brewers in my district are about not only about the sort of art of brewing, they're about jobs," he tells NPR over a few North Carolina beers. "So these are small business folks that are risk-takers, that are trying to take their art and make a living out of it. It's a pretty cool thing."
Small beer is big business (http://www.npr.org/blogs/thesalt/2014/05/28/316317087/big-breweries-move-into-small-beer-town-and-business-is-hopping), not just in McHenry's district, but around the country.
"There are more craft breweries now than I think there were pre-Prohibition. We are a thriving and growing industry — 110,000 people across roughly 3,200 breweries across the country," says Mari Rodela. She heads up the D.C. Brewers' Guild and is the chief community and culture officer at D.C. Brau, which opened in 2009.
http://www.npr.org/blogs/thesalt/2015/03/12/392550170/a-craft-beer-tax-battle-is-brewing-on-capitol-hill
Congressman Patrick McHenry is a man who knows his beer. The refrigerator in his Capitol Hill office is filled to the brim with it. The Republican's district includes the city of Asheville, N.C., which claims (http://www.npr.org/blogs/thesalt/2014/05/28/316317087/big-breweries-move-into-small-beer-town-and-business-is-hopping) it has more breweries per capita than any other U.S. city.
"Brewers in my district are about not only about the sort of art of brewing, they're about jobs," he tells NPR over a few North Carolina beers. "So these are small business folks that are risk-takers, that are trying to take their art and make a living out of it. It's a pretty cool thing."
Small beer is big business (http://www.npr.org/blogs/thesalt/2014/05/28/316317087/big-breweries-move-into-small-beer-town-and-business-is-hopping), not just in McHenry's district, but around the country.
"There are more craft breweries now than I think there were pre-Prohibition. We are a thriving and growing industry — 110,000 people across roughly 3,200 breweries across the country," says Mari Rodela. She heads up the D.C. Brewers' Guild and is the chief community and culture officer at D.C. Brau, which opened in 2009.