Drink more local craft-beers… Down with corporate beer.

I have to agree with Tom Philpott, food and ag blogger for Mother Jones, when commenting on the intense corporatization of beer in his article, Beer Charts of the Day: “Anheuser-Busch, InBev and SABMiller produce 80 percent of the beer consumed here [USA]. That’s four of every five brews. And almost all of them suck!” And then he adds, “What all of this is telling me is that corporations control plenty, but they don’t control everything. Their dominance of US beer is a mile wide but paper thin.”

So, what does this mean… It means that we need to drink more craft-beer like Sierra Nevada or New Belgium or a Stone or a Dogfish Head instead. Put our money on the craft-beer brewers and put money back into our communities. Because, if we continue to drink locally produced craft-beers we can slowly reclaim real beer and we’ll be better off as a society — and we can create more local jobs! Oh yeah, small business is the back bone of this country. 

Read the article here and then the his rebuttal “Another Beer: Corporate Power, Deregulation, and Why German Brew Is (On Average) Better Than American” from the reader feedback.