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We Are The 5%

October 27, 2011 By Jay Brooks

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While I support the Occupy Wall Street movement, this is something even nearer and dearer to my heart. I don’t know who came up with it, I saw it when Firestone Walker tweeted it, along with the hashtag #OccupythePub and the simple message: “Craft beer drinkers unite. We might only be 5% of the market but we are 95% of the noise!” What a great slogan and a great idea to build awareness for craft beer. We are the 5%!

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Filed Under: Beers, Breweries, Just For Fun, Politics & Law Tagged With: Humor, Statistics



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  1. Review Responsibly | Ladies of Craft Beer says:
    January 11, 2012 at 12:52 pm

    […] market share to rise, we as a craft beer drinking community need to look past the exclusivity of “we are the 5%” and try being positive and inclusive (some ideas for that can be found in my first post at […]

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