{"id":5043,"date":"2010-10-24T19:47:41","date_gmt":"2010-10-25T01:47:41","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/appellationbeer.com\/blog\/?p=5043"},"modified":"2010-10-25T06:34:11","modified_gmt":"2010-10-25T12:34:11","slug":"is-this-what-it-takes-to-run-a-brewery","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/appellationbeer.com\/blog\/is-this-what-it-takes-to-run-a-brewery\/","title":{"rendered":"Is this what it takes to run a brewery?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>How much does this tell you?<\/p>\n<p>The quote appears on Page 95 of <a href=\"http:\/\/www.amazon.com\/gp\/product\/0470592702?ie=UTF8&#038;tag=beertravelers&#038;linkCode=as2&#038;camp=1789&#038;creative=9325&#038;creativeASIN=0470592702\"><em>Dethroning the King: The Hostile Takeover of Anheuser-Busch<\/em><\/a> and comes for Charlie Claggett, an advertising guy. That&#8217;s the context.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;I think he (August Busch III) genuinely wanted to pass it down to his son, but I think his son wasn&#8217;t up to it. August used to say, &#8216;You&#8217;re thinking with your heart and not your head.&#8217; And I think that was the weakness his son had. He just did not have the cutthroat willingness to cut somebody off at the knees if he had to, which is the way you have to run a brewery. Because let&#8217;s face it, anybody can brew beer. It&#8217;s just a matter of who has the most money and power, and who is willing to do what it takes.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>What a paragraph.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>How much does this tell you? The quote appears on Page 95 of Dethroning the King: The Hostile Takeover of Anheuser-Busch and comes for Charlie Claggett, an advertising guy. That&#8217;s the context. &#8220;I think he (August Busch III) genuinely wanted to pass it down to his son, but I think his son wasn&#8217;t up to &#8230; <a title=\"Is this what it takes to run a brewery?\" class=\"read-more\" href=\"https:\/\/appellationbeer.com\/blog\/is-this-what-it-takes-to-run-a-brewery\/\" aria-label=\"More on Is this what it takes to run a brewery?\">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":[292],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-5043","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-musing"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p4wTn-1jl","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/appellationbeer.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5043","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=5043"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/appellationbeer.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5043\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":5047,"href":"https:\/\/appellationbeer.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5043\/revisions\/5047"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/appellationbeer.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=5043"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/appellationbeer.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=5043"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/appellationbeer.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=5043"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}