Beer Sales Down - The Obvious Solution: Drink More Beer!

An Opinion Piece from Sarah:

Imagine a world with no pubs.  A world where, sure there is still alcohol, but no beer.  Wine, gin, vodka, cider—plenty of that.  But no beer.  None.  That is the world we are in danger of living in.

Alright, maybe that is a bit of an exaggeration. We are not in danger of losing all of our beer, or all of our pubs for that matter. In fact, they aren’t even our pubs, but isn’t a loss of any beer at all, for anyone, just as great?

It seems that Great Britain is currently experiencing a decrease in demand for beer significant enough to threaten their local pubs. Mimicking a movement of the 18th century in which beer was largely replaced by gin, modern day brews are beginning to be replaced by wine, and that wine is being drunk at home.

Already, last year, 1,409 British pubs closed (almost seven times more than closed in 2006) and beer sales have declined to less than thirty million pints a day. This is the lowest sales have been since the 1930s. If sales continue in this fashion, there won’t be any hope left.

So what can we do to help? How can we prevent this horrible plague from taking a leap over the pond?

It’s simple: keep drinking.

Go out, grab a brew, and close the bar down yourself. As long as the world demands it, there will be beer. As long as there is beer, the world will be happy. And as long as the world is happy, I will be too.

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