Posted on 11/01/2020 1:01:46 PM PST by dynachrome
Happy Hour starts at 3 o’clock. Tenants selling reality-relief are killing it. I called a number of retailers to double-check my desultory anecdotal evidence. One, the owner of a first-rate supermarket chain, said his alcohol sales are up 25 percent since March. That came as no surprise, but the identity of his best-selling beer — Corona — did.
Along with half of America, I assumed that Corona was destined to become the Adolph of beer labels. Wrong. Drinkers love it — some think calling a hangover a “corona virus” is funny. This merchant said the only limitation on his Corona sales was lack of inventory. Neither he nor any other seller of liquor is asking for any rent breaks.
I called a major beer distributor in the Central Valley. Same story. Up 25 percent across the board. Any brand outselling the pack? “Honey, anything selling in a can or a bottle, our customers are buying it.”
Alcohol is easy to vet, sales are reported — no one’s cooking moonshine in their backyards. Marijuana? Let’s just say the numbers are a little cloudy. Without getting lost in the weeds, the big picture looks like this: Recreational marijuana (“rec”) consumption is up considerably this year, but precise numbers are hard to come by. Point of sale numbers for California’s legal rec were up 29 percent for the month of August.
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Made me chuckle.
For your interest.
Boy is this person ignorant.
Yes, people are cooking up illegal moonshine in their back yards but they are also cooking up perfectly legal beer, wine, hard cider and mead.
He didn't think the yeast shortage was caused only by people wanting to bake bread did he?
No kidding. 10 gallons of hard cider is resting now.
Should have made 20.
L
From the article: “As for the do-it-yourself crowd, you can grow a single plant on your kitchen window sill and, according to the net, harvest a couple hundred joints, enough to light up your neighborhood like a diesel generator. Grow the six plants you’re permitted under California law and you can buy yourself a tractor. No one has a clue how many pot transactions are free or bartered; maybe Netflix could make an educated guess by counting the number of times “Harold and Kumar go to White Castle” has been downloaded.”
In my neighborhood this year so many people grew so much pot that they were trading it like homegrown tomatoes, peaches and squash.
I’m genuinely surprised there’s a legal market at all.
In Norcal, it’s free and it’s everywhere. And the cops don’t care.
If you went down my street and sampled what every house was brewing up you would be toasted half way to the first cross street.
And that is not counting the guys who are growing hops and/or malting barley. It is a new industry here but I think it is going to catch on. Lots of local small breweries and they are looking for local ingredients.
Ping to post #5.
When the bottle shops were closed for months on end we made apple cider. The the yeast sold in sores disappeared. But we had connections to buy beer.
Now things are opened up 3 days a week so I stock up on commercial beer and drink a lot more than I used to.
There os really nothing else to do here in Botswana.
Nothing to do in Botswana? Maybe you could help Precious Ramotswe solve some cases.
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