Beer is Back, Baby!

Many of you have emailed to the BBD mothership about our recent bullishness about the beer industry, particularly high-end beers. "Harry, you wrote about craft beers four out of the five days last week...what's that about?" The question, I think, is whether the exuberance that alert readers have detected rational or not. Well, now it is starting to show up in the numbers and in the mainstream trade press. Veteran journo Mike Beirne in Brand Week reports that beer is,