CBC ’13 Keynotes Rally, With Challenges

March 27, 2013Dear Client: Charlie Papazian opened the 2013 Craft Brewers Conference today wishing the late, great beer and whiskey writer Michael Jackson a happy birthday. "I'm sure he's up there and he has a lot to smile about," he said. He then invoked 1776, and resistance to King George III. "The king had at his disposal an enormous amount of power ... his legions were trained ..." vs. George Washington's "rag tag group." The parallels to today's craft industry