Dick Adams wrote:
>
>
> 25 years
> ago I was the President of a 2000 member social
> organization and put someone in charge of buying
> beer and wine for the monthly meeting (~150 members).
> The first month he was in charge, he purchased
> Heilmann's Old Style! I asked hin why. Turns out
> he did not drink alcohol so he asked at a local
> package goods store and was told Old Style was the
> largest selling beer in Chicago. LoL!
>
> He also get a Ros'e instead of a Red wine. When
> someone complained about the Ros'e, I relied "Just
> be happy he didn't buy Mad Dog 20/20 or Ripple."

What a sec- *you* appointed somebody to buy beer and wine for your club
who not only didn't drink and was, from your story, given no guidelines
so he asked a retailer "What's the most popular beer in Chicago?" and
got a (correct, IIRC) answer and bought that and *you* ridiculed him for it?

Seems to me, even asking someone who DOES drink (Drink? Drink *what*?)
to buy beer and hope to please 150 people is a pretty tough
assignment...but if you goes by sales figures, it sure looks to me that
90-95% of the US market is light lagers and light beers, both foreign
and domestic, so...

That said, I'd hate to hear the comments from a 2000 member club if *I*
bought their beer...