CEO for the Day

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  1. TheIPAHunter

    TheIPAHunter Grand High Pooh-Bah (6,026) Aug 12, 2007 California
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    If you could run any brewery for one day, who would it be and why? Could you effect change in a 24-hour period?
     
  2. TheIPAHunter

    TheIPAHunter Grand High Pooh-Bah (6,026) Aug 12, 2007 California
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    I would send out a single e-mail on behalf of Budweiser, essentially saying that after years and years of poisoning the masses with clever advertising and water-downed beer, we took a step back and realized that our children, their children, their children, and children spawned from years to come, would never have to work again. Therefore, we pat ourselves on the back and graciously step away from the industry. I believe that would effect change, no? One less conglomerate preventing the true aspirants from achieving their due. Cheers.
     
  3. bungletrpg

    bungletrpg Zealot (622) Sep 3, 2014 California
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    I would make the Bruery brew an IPA. :grinning:
     
  4. craft_is_king

    craft_is_king Pundit (773) Jul 24, 2014 California

    Sixpoint, Brew 3 Bean, Barrel age some 3 bean, and start to distribute to Souther California.
     
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  5. yemenmocha

    yemenmocha Grand Pooh-Bah (4,116) Jun 18, 2002 Arizona
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    Russian River.

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  6. bleakies

    bleakies Maven (1,355) Apr 11, 2011 Massachusetts

    During my one-day reign of terror at Pretty Things, I'd diversify their current bomber-only bottling format to include 12 oz bottles and/or pounder cans. Pretty Things probably can't afford such a transition, which helps explain why my reign of terror would only last a single day.
     
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  7. leroybrown10

    leroybrown10 Pooh-Bah (2,416) Jan 26, 2008 Missouri
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    So you would happily put 150,000+ people out of work? I'm sure the world would be ever so grateful.
     
  8. Ipaupaweallpa

    Ipaupaweallpa Savant (1,022) Dec 26, 2014 Alabama
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    I would not want to be ceo, but just hang out with Greg Koch take a tour and have a beer and talk about cool stuff
     
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  9. TheIPAHunter

    TheIPAHunter Grand High Pooh-Bah (6,026) Aug 12, 2007 California
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    No, of course not. This is a dream scenario where we get to live out our fantasies... with no repercussions, of course. There is no perfect answer.
     
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  10. DrumKid003

    DrumKid003 Initiate (0) Aug 10, 2013 Oklahoma

    Well since there's no repercussions and you would cause tens of thousands of people to lose their job, whether they work directly for Budweiser or not; I'm assuming you're going to sell off all the business assets (buildings, equipment, intellectual property) and split those billions of dollars equally among all the people you forced out of a job while taking none for yourself.
     
  11. fredmugs

    fredmugs Initiate (0) Aug 11, 2012 Indiana

    Cool story bro. I love how you put the ball on the tee all by yourself.
     
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  12. BBThunderbolt

    BBThunderbolt Grand High Pooh-Bah (7,846) Sep 24, 2007 Kiribati
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    I would choose to be the CEO of the company that makes 22oz bottles, and I would announce that we were no longer making them. Then I would have the 22oz bottle-making equipment destroyed, so that never more would they plague our fair planet.
     
  13. hopnado

    hopnado Initiate (0) Aug 13, 2014 Michigan

    If I could run Bell's for a day I'd pull the plug on Midwestern pale ale and lager of the lakes, I would make Hopslam a year round offering and would bring back Mars as a seasonal 12 pack. Two hearted would be available in gallon glass jugs with a double and triple version sold at sporadic times throughout the year. I would also start an appreciation program where customers collect credits for every Bell's beer they buy and redeem them for limited brews like black note and batch 9000.
     
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  14. Hrodebert

    Hrodebert Savant (1,024) Sep 2, 2013 Michigan
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    I would choose Shorts, and then make it company policy to make no more than 1/3 of all beers hoppy.
    Gee, I hope I don't put too many people in the hop industry out of work with my selfish internet fantasy.
     
  15. SomethingClever

    SomethingClever Grand Pooh-Bah (4,871) Feb 22, 2013 Ohio
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    I will bite. I'd run ABinbev and acquire Russian River, Hills Farmstead, Lawsons, Alchemist, Fiddlehead, NEBCO and all the other ultra rare hard to get beer and immediately start mass distribution and production. Until it drowns the stupid fucks who want these beers to be more readily available so everyone can THEN complain they are common place and average.
     
  16. threedaggers

    threedaggers Maven (1,448) Dec 2, 2013 Kentucky
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    Cantillon. I'd raid the cellar as hard as possible all day long.
     
  17. Smakawhat

    Smakawhat Grand High Pooh-Bah (7,191) Mar 18, 2008 Maryland
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    I could affect change in a 24 hour period... you bet...

    I'd walk in and say...

    wow... this is really awful... you're all fired.... :wink:
     
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  18. GetMeAnIPA

    GetMeAnIPA Pooh-Bah (2,559) Mar 28, 2009 California
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    Tree house and ship truckloads of green to my city in California. Then spend the rest of the day picking the brewers brains on their recipes and process.
     
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  19. SierraTerence

    SierraTerence Zealot (649) Mar 14, 2007 California

    Millennial

    :wink:
     
  20. hophugger

    hophugger Grand Pooh-Bah (3,434) Mar 5, 2014 Virginia
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    Sixpoint
     
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