Three Takeaways from this Year’s CBC

Dear Client: A MUCH LIGHTER, QUIETER CBC. At 7,000 attendees – many of them seemingly vendors – and the second day’s keynote speaker Richard Montañez calling in remotely due to COVID exposure, this pandemic-time Craft Brewers Conference was much lighter, and different, than usual. (As a reference, the event saw 14,000 attendees in 2018.) The parties didn’t rage like they normally do (thankfully); downtown Denver was relatively tame (no Falling Rock Taphouse… in its place was some sorta of seeming