Drinking Corner
This a merciful thing: "Some of America's most famous beers have lost a tremendous amount of their national sales over the last five years. Mostly, they are full-calorie beers, and they have lost sales to lower-calorie products, as well as imports and craft beers. 24/7 Wall St. looked at the 23 largest selling beer products in America and found eight that have lost a staggering 30% or more of their sales between 2005 and 2010." Link.
So which eight have taken the biggest hit? I've listed them below, in reverse order. I have rated each beer on a scale of one-to-ten, using my expert status as a drinker with 30 years experience. As you'll notice, I think we're seeing a fine and noble trend with these beers' decline:
8. Budweiser: 3
7. Milwaukee's Best Light: 2
6. Miller Genuine Draft: 7
5. Old Milwaukee: 6
4. Milwaukee's Best: 3
3. Bud Select (never tasted)
2. Michelob Light: 6
1. Michelob: 7
Average score: 4.85. I'm also encouraged that Pabst (my favorite low-end beer) isn't on the list, but then again, it lost so much market share in the early aughts, it probably didn't have much more room to give.
From the Notebooks
Orestes Brownson was the first person to try to offer a complete theory of the role of the Catholic Church in America. He wasn't willing to concede America to the Church, and he wasn't willing to concede the Church to America. He wanted both–America's republic that he thought was Rome Incarnate, and the Catholic Church, which was founded by God Incarnate–to be realized in their fullness on these shores, one day expanding into Canada and Mexico, making the entire continent part of the United States, and all of it a monument to the Catholic Church.
