Forget about that little problem in our nation’s capital, folks — we’ve got a problem right here at home. Seems there are more beer drinkers than there is beer for them to drink.
I’m talking about real beer, of course — Colorado craft beer, not the swill the megabrewers pitch to America’s small hat sizes during televised sporting events. I’d rather drink water. And you know what fish do in water.
Happily, there’s good news on the booze front. The United States has slipped past France to become the world’s biggest consumer of wine. And I helped! We’re No. 1! USA! USA! USA!
Mad Blog Media 
At least we can raise a glass to the gubmint staying open for a while, now that the peloton regrouped and agreed on a compromised budget. Like Bill Mayer likes to do on his great HBO show to demonstrate to the usual Repug whipping boy on the panel, we need to show the general public how absurd the cuts the Reps want are. His heaping plate of food that represents the federal budget and all it’s bloated waste, but the Reps want to cut the only the parsley and baby carrots to solve the problem. Ass clowns will be ass clowns…
Trust me you have a lot assistance, I can assure you you are behind the curve in quantity
I’m typing this while wearing a “Friends don’t let friends drink white zinfandel” t-shirt my in-laws gave me. Sadly, I’m sure that swill counts as wine consumption for these purposes? The per capita numbers are interesting, the French and Italians enjoy an almost 5 to 1 ratio compared to us. Last year when we lived in Viterbo, there were THREE places within a 10 minute walk from our front door where I could buy pretty decent vino for $1.50 per liter! An oak-barrel aged Tuscan sangiovese could be purchased for $2 a liter. You just brought down your own container and they filled it up right from the huge, stainless-steel barrel. Equivalent quality Italian wines sold in bottles here in the midwest run $6-12 (even higher in Iowa which is why most of ours is purchased in NE or MN) and of course those are only .75 of a liter!
You almost can not afford NOT to drink vino in Italy. Mineral water is cheap as well but canned soda-pop is NOT, which to me is as it should be in a civilized world — but even in Italy, we saw far too many younger people washing down their excellent pizza with sugary soda. Those TV commercials work in any language!
Peel me a grape….
Friends don’t let friends drink rotgut–or sodas. Here’s to decent wine, having just split a bottle with my better half.
Interesting graphic in 5280 on how much equipment is loaned from one CO beer company to another. Funny that half the country can’t stand the other half while competing beer companies are swapping tanks and trucks.