**Breaking**
Joe McClain to Leave Beer Institute

December 11, 2013Dear Client: Capt. Joe McClain will be leaving the Beer Institute as its president effective December 13, it was announced. Joe has been running the BI since June of 2010, when he was named as the late Jeff Becker's successor. Before that, Joe was Director of the Navy Liaison Office to the U.S. House of Representatives. "Joe informed the BI Board of his desire to pursue other interests, and the Board has accepted Joe's resignation," Beer Institute chairman