Koch: “Will Better Beer Continue to Grow? Yes”

"If there's anything better than free beer, it's good free beer." So began Boston Beer Founder Jim Koch at the CAGNY Conference in Arizona yesterday. Amen there, brother. Jim has always defined imports and specialty craft as "better beers", much to the annoyance of domestic mainstream brewers.Jim, as a former management consultant, has always struck me as the perfect mixture of astute "paint by numbers" strategist and traditional tweed jacket beer-sniffing brewmeister. The latter may be somewhat of an act