While I’m sure there’s some truth to the saying that everybody looks better after you’ve had your sixth beer, there’s now support for my long-held opinion that nobody looks that great after their sixth beer. And maybe not even after their first.
“We believe there is an overall image crisis with beer,” says Smith Barney Citicorp analyst Bonnie Herzog. [...]
“Our wholesaler contacts have told us through a survey we conducted recently that beer has lost its ‘sexiness’ and ‘appeal to young consumers,’” Herzog says.
I’m certain quite a few of your beer drinkers are already thinking about hitting that “Hiss” button and leaving your two cents, prattling on endlessly about the merits of beer, its fine history, its long lineage. To which I reply:





Tuesday, January 11th, 2005, 5:11 pm | 

January 11, 2005 at 5:34 pm
You could have at least used Sean Connery…
January 11, 2005 at 8:17 pm
I never thought beer was “sexy.” 1. It makes me burp and the ladies don’t like that. 2. It makes me pee every 10 minutes so I can’t keep a conversation going. 3. Drinking a Gin & Tonic looks so much cooler and tastes so much better.
January 12, 2005 at 12:41 pm
That loooooooser Bond doesn’t even drink his Martinis right. Vodka my ass.
(Vodka is great, mind you. It’s just not in a Martini, and I don’t care what Steven Green says about it, either!)
January 15, 2005 at 1:51 pm
Absinthe. That’s all I want to say about that.