{"id":30,"date":"2006-03-21T17:15:06","date_gmt":"2006-03-21T17:15:06","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/appellationbeer.com\/blog\/2006\/03\/21\/beneficial-inefficiency\/"},"modified":"2012-10-30T06:04:22","modified_gmt":"2012-10-30T12:04:22","slug":"beneficial-inefficiency","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/appellationbeer.com\/blog\/beneficial-inefficiency\/","title":{"rendered":"Beneficial inefficiency"},"content":{"rendered":"

Good Grape<\/a> – you guessed it, a blog aimed a wine drinkers – credits Sam Calagione of Dogfish Head Brewery<\/a> with creating the economic theory of “Beneficial Inefficiency.” <\/p>\n

The author is moved to ask this question:<\/p>\n

Isn’t a really relevant question here, maybe the wineries have it all wrong? Maybe they don’t need to grow bigger, maybe they won’t be able to sustain a market of new customers buying direct in the Midwest, maybe what they should do is create less product and market it better. <\/p><\/blockquote>\n

Now substitute the word “breweries” for “wineries” and read it again.<\/p>\n

I’m not supporting the concept of aritificial shortages, but perhaps it is better for all of us if breweries have the option of producing less and still making money – because that allows them to focus on quality.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Good Grape – you guessed it, a blog aimed a wine drinkers – credits Sam Calagione of Dogfish Head Brewery with creating the economic theory of “Beneficial Inefficiency.” The author is moved to ask this question: Isn’t a really relevant question here, maybe the wineries have it all wrong? Maybe they don’t need to grow … Read more<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[3,292],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-30","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-beer-wine","category-musing"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p4wTn-u","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/appellationbeer.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/30","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/appellationbeer.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/appellationbeer.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/appellationbeer.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/appellationbeer.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=30"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/appellationbeer.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/30\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":9733,"href":"https:\/\/appellationbeer.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/30\/revisions\/9733"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/appellationbeer.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=30"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/appellationbeer.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=30"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/appellationbeer.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=30"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}