Using the R Word Again in Beer Business

Gooooood Morning Des Moines! Many thanks to the Iowa Wholesale Beer Distributors Assoc for inviting me here to speak this morning, despite the -4 degree weather and no coat. What's that Boy Scouts motto? Oh yeah: be prepared. It's good to be back in the Midwest, an area of the country that sells a heck of a lot of beer per capita but gets short shrift by this publication and others. But the Midwest is the source of the growth,