Not sure how I missed this, but apparently it’s American Craft Beer Week, another one of those ceremonial weeks sanctioned by Congress (if you’re a law wonk, check out the actual bill as a pdf here).
If you read the recitals to that law, you’d think craft brewers are heroes (I certainly do), which is particularly ironic given that there are others who feel that there is a new movement afoot to stigmatize social drinking (referred to as “Prohibition drip-by-drip).
Anyway, make sure you celebrate with your favorite local craft brew, and lift one for me as well.

Here’s an interesting take on the best way to support your fellow countrymen during the recession, almost recession, or whatever it is we’re having (or not) – buy beer.
As the theory goes, much of the money spent on most non-perishable items ends up somewhere else, as I covered in a different blog. At least beer money, when spent on American brews, should stay here. Not sure that works out as planned when the beer contains Hallertau, Tettnang or Saaz hops, or malt from the UK, but then again it was said more in jest than anything else.
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