Month: April 2017
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An investment in knowledge pays the best interest…
This year’s Craft Brewers Conference has just concluded, and once again, the event was well attended with over 12,000 industry people. While the attendance was impressive, the initial feedback from a number of attendees was not positive. From those who attended, many mentioned that the overall excitement from previous years’ conventions was missing. The early […]
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We are all born ignorant, but one must work hard to remain stupid..
When Coors Brewery expanded their Texas footprint in the mid 1960s, the brewery approached each major market looking only for one distributor. Prior to the 1960s expansion, Coors was only sold in El Paso and Amarillo. Coors appointed a few distributors in small markets, Mineral Wells being one of them, but the company had only […]
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Cutting prices or putting things on sale is not a sustainable strategy..the other side of it is that you can’t cut costs to save your way to prosperity..
I acquired Texas Beers in May 1981 and Schlitz immediately announced a general market price increase. As a new owner, this decision on the part of Schlitz, put me in an awkward position. Retailers would be pushing back at the idea of a new owner raising prices on their product. So, despite having a more […]
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Where everyone knows your name…..
Six years ago while in New York City, I decide to visit one of New York’s oldest bars, McSorley’s Old Ale House, established 1854. While not the oldest bar in New York City, it is one of the five bars featured in the YouTube below. Even today, McSorley’s serves only two beers: one dark and […]