The BBD Crystal Ball: How Did We Do?

Wow, what an extraordinary year 2006 turned out to be. Costco, Barton/Modelo, A-B/RollingRock/InBev, Heineken Premium Light, strong beer sales, decent pricing, the craft beer revolution, the Stop Act, distributor consolidation..you name it, it happened in 2006.You may recall that on January 3 of this year, the first issue of the year, we devoted an issue of BBD to making 16 predictions for 2006. So how did we do? Not too shabby. Let's take a look at our previous predictions with