I realize that serious economics commentators do their beer blogging on Fridays, but I just got ’round to reading this in Friday’s Financial Times:

Cold, refreshing, helps you forget – the charms of beer are pretty recession-proof. However, what was a lifestyle choice when consumers were flush with cash rapidly becomes an overpriced foreign beer as wallets close. So it seems that one of the trends in beer drinking that has predominated for almost a decade – growth in premium imported brands – has begun to turn.