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# The Friday Eudemon
- URL: https://thedailyeudemon.com/5490/
- Published: 2007-05-11T09:50:30.000Z
- Updated: 2007-05-11T09:50:30.000Z
- Author: Eric Scheske
- Tags: Food and Drink, #wpChunk

[My Pistons are hot](http://sports.espn.go.com/nba/recap?gameId=270510004&campaign=rss&source=ESPNHeadlines)! Down 19, they came back to win. They're up 3-0\. I suspect a dear friend and Bulls fan will owe me $5 next week.

Not much ordinary blogging today. I spent most of my time on the above rant, but I have time for a few

Brews You Can Use

The Fonz said the supermarket is a great place to meet "chicks" (I use the quotes to attribute it to Fonzie, so everyone realizes I'm not the sexist pig). But there's a new reason: [supermarkets are selling more craft beers](http://www.brewblog.com/brew/2007/05/beer%5Ffragmentin.html?ref=thedailyeudemon.com). It's an interesting story, and this might be the best part: it says Bud is in decline. Thank goodness. There's something about that mass-marketed swill that makes me want to yell "sheep!" when I see my friends drink it (of course, when I drank Miller Lite, they could scream the same thing back at me, but Bud and Bud Lite always seemed just a little worse). Excerpt from article:

> For the 13 weeks ended April 28, the top 20 beer brands commanded 72.3 percent of supermarket volume, according to beer sales statistics from Nielsen. That's down a point and a half from 73.8 percent share in 20004.

> The single biggest driver of that decline is Budweiser, according to Nielsen's beer industry analysis. Bud accounted for 42.8 percent of the total decline. Michelob Ultra, another Anheuser-Busch beer, represented 22.1 percent of the drop.

> Besides the long running decline of Bud, another factor in this fragmentation is the growth of import and craft brands.

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[Sam Adams, meanwhile, is kicking rump and taking names](http://www.realbeer.com/blog/?p=509&ref=thedailyeudemon.com). Maybe Anheuser-Busch will buy it, then increase the marketing and water. That'll ruin a great beer line.  
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[Workers comp claim](http://www.realbeer.com/blog/?p=508&ref=thedailyeudemon.com)?

> A Brazilian court has ordered local brewer Ambev to pay $49,400 to an alcoholic beer taster who drank more than three pints a day. The employee alleged that the company did not provide the health measures needed to keep him from developing alcoholism, a labor court in the Rio Grande do Sul state said in a statement Friday.

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A blogger at [A Good Beer Blog](http://beerblog.genx40.com/?ref=thedailyeudemon.com) has a continuing monologue about reasons for drinking at a bar/pub, instead of sipping at home. It's pretty good. Here's one solid conclusion:

> One reason to drink at the pub is that drinking (beer especially) is a social activity. When you drink beer, you talk. And when you are sitting at a bar next to someone, you invariably end up saying a word or two and sometimes it turns into a conversation. If the bartender knows their business, they'll be talking and they'll do stuff to get conversations going.

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I'm not greatly impressed by the site, but a page dedicated to monastic-like brewing deserves mention on a Catholic blog that discusses drink: [Brew Like a Monk](http://www.brewlikeamonk.com/?ref=thedailyeudemon.com).