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| Hello again and Happy Halloween! We seem to be getting a slight reprieve from the start of winter here on the Peninsula, with temperatures in the upper 40s, but we all know that won’t last. Besides, every one I know keeps hoping for a “real winter” this year, unlike the last couple. We’ll see if that enthusiasm still lingers come February.
Some interesting stories are percolating on the “National Beer News” Desk. The first one is the announcement by Stone Brewing of significant layoffs. Somewhere between 50 and 100 employees, some of whom had been with the company for quite some time, were given their walking papers. This is the same Stone Brewing which is busily expanding by opening new breweries in Richmond, VA and Berlin. So we have a craft brewery that seems to be behaving more or less like one of those big, industrial breweries that its founder, Greg Koch, loves to rail against. What does it mean for Stone’s beers? Beats me, but it does give me pause when I’m standing in the bottle … |
Source: Drinking on the Last Frontier
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