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Lager Heads had the honor of moderating a fascinating - and heated - panel at a beer conference last month in Chicago. The topic: Globalization and its effect on the regulation of alcohol in the U.S.

We wanted…

Well, we’re back from Chicago. Did you miss us? (Please, don’t everybody answer YES!!! all at once.)

We met a lot of interesting people and learned a lot at the alcohol-focused legal symposium, which was organized by the Center for Alcohol…

Marin Institute, a longtime critic of the alcohol industry, dropped a “bombshell” report this week criticizing Anheuser-Busch and MillerCoors, the two largest brewers in the U.S. The report called beer “the most widely used drug in America” and urged the Obama…

Folks, we will be in Chicago on Monday and Tuesday, attending a conference organized by the National Beer Wholesalers Association’s Center for Alcohol Policy. Look for our reporting on the proceedings. Should be lots of interesting nuggest on beer regulation and…

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Last year, the national conference of the National Beer Wholesalers Association was “more angst-fest than beer-fest,” in the words of one Wall Street analyst. That made sense: Beer middlemen were preoccupied with their evaporating wealth and nervously…

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Lager Heads wouldn’t have expected the top honchos of the National Beer Wholesalers Association to be big fans of tighter regulations. But NBWA President Craig Purser are chairman Phil Terry are full of surprises.

Both men issued a challenge…

A new economic impact study casts America’s beer industry as an economic powerhouse directly employing more than one million people and paying $28 billion in wages. The study, commissioned by the Beer Institute and the National Beer Wholesalers Association, also indicated…

When it comes to underage drinking, beer distributors are understandably vocal. Besides the health and safety issues that arise with illegal consumption, underage drinking invites bad publicity for the beer industry’s middlemen and raises the prospects of tougher regulations. Many…