Month: December 2012

  • The Queen of Beers……

        I first met Diane Fall (Hankins) in early 1982 when she visited me at my distributorship headquarters in  South Texas.  I had responded to an ad she had place in Modern Brewery Age searching for distributors to handle Warsteiner.  We had dinner, and I committed to distributing Warsteiner in my area. That evening […]

  • Shaken, not stirred…..

          When I was a young District Sales Manager for Lone Star Brewing Company, I had the opportunity to spend quite a bit of time with Harry Jersig, Chairman and founder of the brewery.  He grew up with Lyndon B. Johnson in South Texas and they were friends.  On numerous occasions, Harry mentioned […]

  • Beer is proof that God loves us and wants us to be happy!

      Albert Cramer – Warsteiner       Some years ago a colleague of mine who had been in the beer industry for 20 years, left the profession to go into real estate.  He had been employed in his new trade for about 12 months when he called me.  We talked for a while and […]