NRA Forecast: Craft Consumer the Most Confident and Spendy; Local Beer Trendy

February 1, 2012 NRA Forecast: Craft Consumer the Most Confident and Spendy; Local Beer Trendy Dear Client: Everyone in the beer industry has qualified sentences thus: "when the on-premise comes back." Well. The National Restaurant Association today released its 50-page 2012 forecast for the industry. The big news: It's back, tentatively, like it has been for the last couple years. Problem is, the consumer isn't sure the economy is back, hearkening back to Mary Jo Hardy's insights about America's unhappy