Some dude named Charlie has an
interesting series on the decline of craft brewery in Germany (down from
2,200 craft breweries fifty years ago to about half that now). Apparently, large conglomerates have bought up many of the small breweries, but now that economic times are tough, they are deciding to close some of the smaller, though excellent, breweries just to boost profits. Makes you wonder if that will ever happen states-side. Right now, we've got hundreds of amazing independent breweries, but what if a large corporation decided to buy Stone brewery, and then a few years later to close it down... it
happened to the Old Dominion brewpub when it was bought out, so I guess it could happen to the beer, as well. Anyway, in honor of better times in German beer, here's me at the
Alt-Giessener brewery, enjoying one of the many delicious brews they have there.
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