We lost a good one last Friday. After 4 years of fighting colon cancer, Jeff Becker, President of the Beer Institute passed away. We grieve for the loss of a good friend, a wonderful person and a passionate industry advocate. Jeff was one of the more interesting members of our industry. Consider being an unflappable
It was overcast but hot in San Diego on this particular afternoon four years ago, the first time I met Daniel Bradford. It was in a courtyard of an aging hotel and convention complex that was playing host to the annual Craft Brewers Conference and he and I were the only two wearing suit jackets. Bradford, the
In the early 1980s, Mark Stutrud was a supervisor at an adolescent chemical dependency program in Minnesota, a role he once described as “classic middle management with a lot of responsibility but no authority.” Frustrated and looking for a way out that wasn’t medical or graduate