Consumer Trends
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Forget about the frat boys of yesterday and today’s overly analytical craft beer snobs—beer consumers are quite a diversified group. At a breakout session held during Restaurant Business' Restaurant Leadership Conference in late March, Tom Burkemper, senior director of trade marketing for Anheuser-Busch, shared the company’s research, revealing that there are five major beer consumer profiles.