5 beers Americans aren't drinking

5 beers Americans aren't drinking

Traditional favorites fall out of favor as Americans choose beers that are lighter or have a higher alcohol content.

By Michael B. Sauter and Alexander E.M. Hess, 24/7 Wall St.

No. 5: Old Milwaukee

Brewer: Pabst Brewing
Sales decline (2006-2011): 52.8%
Barrels sold last year: 460,000

Old Milwaukee is brewed by the Pabst Brewing, acquired in 2010 by C. Dean Metropoulos, described by The New York Times as "a veteran food executive known for corporate turnarounds."

Last year, the Chicago Tribune reported that Pabst employees felt Metropoulos' marketing plans were moving the company away from the philosophies and practices that made it successful.

Old Milwaukee sales fell by 12.4% between 2010 and 2011.

No. 4: Milwaukee's Best

Brewer: MillerCoors
Sales decline (2006-2011): 57.1%
Barrels sold last year: 750,000

MillerCoors, a joint venture between SABMiller (SBMRY) and Molson Coors Brewing (TAP), promotes Milwaukee's Best as a beverage "brewed for a man's taste," and asserts that it is "highly drinkable (and) highly affordable."

Consumers haven't seemed to notice: The beer has one of the lowest rankings on BeerAdvocate, a website and magazine that bills itself as a grass-roots network dedicated to supporting and promoting beer.

No. 3: Budweiser Select

Brewer: Anheuser-Busch InBev
Sales decline (2006-2011): 60.8%
Barrels sold last year: 775,000

Introduced in 2005, Budweiser Select claims to offer a "distinctively full flavor," with just 99 calories per 12-ounce serving, roughly the same as Michelob Ultra.

The brand has never sold well, and in 2009, Anheuser-Busch InBev introduced an offshoot, Budweiser Select 55, which the company describes as "the lightest beer in the world with fewer calories than any other beer option currently available."

No. 2: Michelob Light

Brewer: Anheuser-Busch InBev
Sales decline (2006-2011): 66.3%
Barrels sold last year: 425,000

As sales of Michelob Light have dimmed, sales of Michelob Ultra -- a light beer with only 95 calories per 12-ounce serving introduced a decade ago -- have increased by 10.3% over the past five years

No. 1: Michelob

Brewer: Anheuser-Busch InBev
Sales decline (2006-2011): 72.0%
Barrels sold last year 140,000

American consumers have abandoned Michelob, a lager brewed since 1896, at a faster rate than any other beer.

This after Michelob basically invented the "superpremium" category of beers positioned between Anheuser-Busch's flagship Budweiser and many imports.

Check out more of the leading beer brands Americans are no longer drinking at 24/7 Wall St.

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This  is AWESOME ... something we should all remember.   
A  92-year-old, petite, well-poised and proud man, who is fully dressed  each   morning  by eight o'clock, with his hair fashionably combed and  shaved   perfectly,  even though he is legally blind, moved to a nursing home  today.   
His  wife of 70 years recently passed away, making the move necessary.  After   many  hours of waiting patiently in the lobby of the nursing home, he  smiled   sweetly  when told his room was ready.   
As  he maneuvered his walker to the elevator, I provided a visual  description   of  his tiny room, including the eyelet sheets that had been hung on his  window.   I  love it,' he stated with the enthusiasm of an eight-year-old having  just  been  presented with a new puppy.   
Mr.  Jones, you haven't seen the room; just wait.'   
'That  doesn't have anything to do with it,' he replied.   
Happiness  is something you decide on ahead of time.   
Whether  I like my room or not doesn't depend on how the furniture  is   arranged  ... it's how I arrange my mind. I already decided  to love it. 

'It's  a decision I make every morning when I wake up. I have a  choice;   I  can spend the day in bed recounting the difficulty I have with  the   parts  of my body that no longer work, or get out of bed and be thankful   for the ones that do.   
Each  day is a gift, and as long as my eyes open, I'll focus on the new  day   and  all the happy memories I've stored away.. Just for this time in my  life.   

Old  age is like a bank account. You withdraw from what you've put  in.   
 So,  my advice to you would be to deposit a lot of happiness in the  bank   account  of memories!   

Thank  you for your part in filling my Memory    Bank.   I  am still depositing.   
'Remember  the five simple rules to be happy:                

1.  Free your heart from hatred. 

   2.  Free your mind from worries.          
    3.  Live simply.   
    4.  Give more.   
   5.  Expect less.  

 

How the Richest 400 People in America Got So Rich

By Derek Thompson | The Atlantic – Thu, Jul 12, 2012 2:41 PM EDT

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Yahoo! editors have selected this article as a favorite of 2012. It first appeared on Yahoo! Finance in July and was one of the most popular stories of the month. Readers debated how people really get rich in the U.S., with user One-Eyed Jack commenting that "I would really like to know how many of the 400 were born into millions and how many actually made it on their own." User John replied: "I am a first generation millionaire and also a first generation American. My money came from hard work and smart planning mainly in real estate, but I learned to get by on very little while I was accumulating wealth."
In 1992, the 400th richest person in America made $24 million.
In 2007, the 400th richest person in America made $138 million (or $87 million, inflation-adjusted).
Now, that almost certainly wasn't the same guy. There's a lot of churn at the top of the money pyramid. In all of the 1990s, only 25% of the Fortunate 400 made more than one appearance. But the overall message is the same. The rich keep getting richer.
According to the IRS, which recently released 2009 data from the 400 richest individual income tax returns, the real runaway growth in wealth has come from capital gains. In the last years of the bubble, the "Fortunate 400" made nearly half their income from capital gains (a.k.a.: profit from the rising value of an investment, such as stocks or property) and less than 10% of their income from old-fashioned wages.
The average income of a top-400 earner grew by 650% between 1992 and 2007 to a whopping $344 million. Over that time, the average salary didn't even double. But the average capital gains haul increased by 1,200%. So how do the richest get richer? Not from their wages. From their investments.
Here's a look at the average salary and average capital gains income of a top-400 earner since 1992. Y-axis is labeled in thousands of dollars and all-time highs are noted in the graph.

Three last things:
(1) Who are these people? As Tim Noah explained on our business page, a 2010 study studied the top 0.1 percent, who currently make at least $1.7 million. That's 14-times less than our Fortunate 400 group, but it's the closest we've got. Four in ten in this group were executives, managers, and supervisors at nonfinancial firms. Eighteen percent were financiers. Next came law (7 percent), medicine (6 percent), and real estate (4 percent). My guess is that the top 400 skews toward finance and chief exec even stronger. A lawyer/doctor making $2 million I can imagine. But $24 million?
(2) Capital gains absolutely dictate the wealth of the richest Americans. As Matt O'Brien graphed for us, that's why the income of the top 0.1 percent hugs the S&P so closely.
(3) Remember that as this is happening, the long-term capital gains tax rate has fallen from 28 percent in 1990 to 20 percent for the latter half of the 1990s to 15 percent under George W. Bush.
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Parrot is Dead......................

 

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At dawn the telephone rings,

"Hello, Se�or Bob? This is Ernesto, the caretaker at your country house."

"Ah yes, Ernesto. What can I do for you? Is there a problem?"

"Um, I am just calling to advise you, Se�or Bob, that your parrot, he is dead".

"My parrot? Dead? The one that won the International competition?"

"Si, Se�or, that's the one."

"Damn! That's a pity! I spent a small fortune on that bird. What did he die from?"

"From eating the rotten meat, Se�or Bob."

"Rotten meat? Who the hell fed him rotten meat?"

"Nobody, Se�or. He ate the meat of the dead horse."

"Dead horse? What dead horse?"

"The thoroughbred, Se�or Bob."

"My prize thoroughbred is dead?"

"Yes, Se�or Bob, he died f rom all that work
 pulling the water cart."

"Are you insane? What water cart?"

"The one we used to put out the fire, Se�or."

"Good Lord! What fire are you talking about, man?"

"The one at your house, Se�or! A candle fell and the curtains caught on fire."

"What the hell? Are you saying that my mansion is destroyed because of a candle?!"

"Yes, Se�or Bob."

"But there's electricity at the house! What was the candle for?"

"For the funeral, Se�or Bob."

"WHAT BLOODY FUNERAL??!!"

"Your wife's, Se�or Bob. She showed up very late one night and I thought she was a thief, so I hit her with your new Ping G15 204g titanium head golf club with the TFC 149D graphite shaft."

SILENCE...........

LONG SILENCE.........

VERY LONG
 SILENCE����

"Ernesto, if you broke that driver, you're in deep shit. "


   

Do you really want to use margarine?!!!!

: Fwd: Fwd: FW: PASS THE BUTTER, PLEASE!!

  

 

Now I know for sure why I love butter!  :-)

 

 

 

Having worked at Unilevers Premier Margarine Factory in the UK for 1 Year as a Management Trainee, and then in Sri Lanka Managing Margarine Manufacture, I can safely admit that what you are about to read is true!!  

Pass The Butter ...  Please.        
   
This is interesting . .. .  
   
Margarine was originally manufactured to fatten turkeys.  When it killed the turkeys, the people who had put all the money into the research wanted a payback so they put their heads together to figure out what to do with this product to get their money back.     

It was a white substance with no food appeal so they added the yellow colouring and sold it to people to use in place of butter. How do you like it?  They have come out with some clever new flavourings....     
  
DO YOU KNOW the difference between margarine and butter?   
   
Read on to the end...gets very interesting!     
  
Both have the same amount of calories.  

Butter is slightly higher in saturated fats at 8 grams, compared to 5 grams for margarine. 
   
Eating margarine can increase heart disease in women by 53% over eating the same amount of butter, according to a recent Harvard Medical Study. 
   
Eating butter increases the absorption of many other nutrients in other foods.    

Butter has many nutritional benefits where margarine has a few and only because they are added!  
   
Butter tastes much better than margarine and it can enhance the flavours of  other foods. 
   
Butter has been around for centuries where margarine has been around for less than 100 years.  

And now, for Margarine..  
   
Very high in trans fatty acids.  
   
Triples risk of coronary heart disease ...  

Increases LDL (this is the bad cholesterol) and lowers HDL cholesterol, (the good cholesterol)  
   
Increases the risk of cancers up to five times..
   
Lowers quality of breast milk 
   
Decreases immune response. 
   
Decreases insulin response. 
   
And here's the most disturbing fact...HERE IS THE PART THAT IS VERY INTERESTING!  
   
Margarine is but ONE MOLECULE away from being PLASTIC...and shares 27 ingredients with PAINT

These facts alone were enough to have me avoiding margarine for life and anything else that is hydrogenated (this means hydrogen is added, changing the molecular structure of the substance).     
  
Open a tub of margarine and leave it open in your garage or shaded area. Within a couple of days you will notice a couple of things:  

* no flies, not even those pesky fruit flies will go near it (that should tell you something)  
 
* it does not rot or smell differently because it has no nutritional value; nothing will grow on it. Even those teeny weeny microorganisms will not a find a home to grow.  Why?  Because it is nearly plastic . Would you melt your tupperware and spread that on your toast?  

 
Share this With Your Friends.....(If you want to 'butter them up' for better health)!

now - do you really want to use margarine?!!!!           
 

 

 

Christ Bell

 

Christ Bell This is an awesome e-mail.. Someone took a lot of time setting up this message. THE BELL I KNOW WHO I AM I am God's child (John 1:12) I am Christ's friend (John 15:15 ) I am united with the Lord (1 Cor. 6:17) I am bought with a price (1 Cor 6:19-20) I am a saint (set apart for God). (Eph. 1:1) I am a personal witness of Christ.  (Acts 1:8) I am the salt & light of the earth (Matt 5:13-14) I am a member of the body of Christ (1 Cor 12:27) I am free forever from condemnation ( Rom. 8: 1-2) I am a citizen of Heaven. I am significant (Phil 3 :20) I am free from any charge against me (Rom. 8:31 -34) I am a minister of reconciliation for God (2 Cor 5:17-21) I have access to God through the Holy Spirit (Eph. 2:18) I am seated with Christ in the heavenly realms (Eph. 2:6) I cannot be separated from the love of God (Rom 8:35-39) I am established, anointed, sealed by God  (2 Cor 1:21-22 ) I am assured all things work together for good  (Rom. 8:28 ) I have been chosen and appointed to bear fruit (John 15:16 ) I may approach God with freedom and confidence (Eph.. 3: 12 ) I can do all things through Christ who strengthens me (Phil. 4:13 ) I am the branch of the true vine, a channel of His life (John 15: 1-5) I am God's temple (1 Cor. 3: 16).   I am complete in Christ (Col. 2: 10) I am hidden with Christ in God (Col. 3:3).. I have been justified (Romans 5:1) I am God's co-worker (1 Cor. 3:9; 2 Cor 6:1). I am God's workmanship (Eph. 2:10) I am confident that the good works God has begun in me will be perfected. (Phil. 1: 5) I have been redeemed and forgiven ( Col 1:14). I have been adopted as God's child (Eph 1:5)  I belong to God Do you know Who you are? Keep this bell ringing...pass it on  'The LORD bless you and keep you; The LORD make His face shine upon you And be gracious to you; The LORD turn His face toward you And give you peace... Numbers 6:24-26 -felipe-

 

Health Information

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