Recession and cheap beer

Have you noticed that Busch beer is only $4/ six pack (at least at our liquor store) ...much to Adam's delight- he likes cheap beer.
I prefer to drink less quantities of more delectable beer so I'm in the boat with all the other people who are a little pissed about the hops shortage and the fact that a decent six pack costs 10 bucks. Particularly, because my very favorite beer ever, Orange Blossom has been altered to not my favorite beer- due, I believe, to a change in the hops variety used in the recipe... Buffalo Bills please change it back; I will pay an extra dollar.

Anyways onto the relevant topic of Busch beer being $4 and economics; that's pretty cheap, even for cheap beer. Why when all of the other brewers are increasing prices is Anheuser-Busch decreasing prices. Well when the economy is bad- like it is now, people feel, well, bad. And when we feel bad we drink more beer- there's that American escapism again.
Since every one's broke most people are more likely to drink cheap beer, thus much more Busch is sold for $.67 per beer, further increasing profits to the large domestic breweries and reducing profit to the delightful micro brews and increasing the probability that what happened to my favorite beer could happen to yours, but for your sake, I hope not.

Ironic and AlterMed

As I sit here on 4thy of July Eve, I ponder the fate of our great nation and marvel at the irony that we celebrate our Independence with fireworks, BBQs, and beer- a symbol of Chinese ingenuity, American community, and American escapism. really how else could we? -It's truly perfect.



So I meant to post a diagram from the topic I discuss previously, "efficiency" I'll do that sometime, but I know all of you are beating down my blog to find out what new revelations I have, so I will continue to write in the mean time.



Great News!

One of the local non-profits here in FoCo, AlterMed Research Foundation is putting on the first bi-annual cIMc: Colorado Integrative Medicine Conference next weekend. We've been working very hard to get everything together and we have about 215 attendees and another week to reach our goal of 250+. AlterMed was founded to increase research into complementary and alternative medicine, if you are a practitioner and want to stay ahead of the mob you gotta go to: http://www.altermedresearch.org/ and register for the conference now, then book your flight to DIA if necessary, and call 1-800-44-Estes to book your room in Estes Park for the weekend of July 17-19, 2009. See you Saturday afternoon.