Thursday, July 05, 2007
 As noted by Matt, Narragansett Brewing and major domo Mark Hellendrung, with a story reprinted today in the ProJo, are getting some love from the Wall Street Journal. RI's beer boom, which also includes restaurateur-legislator Josh Miller and the guys at Coastal Extreme Brewing, was previously noted in the Phoenix:
During the distant heyday of Narragansett Brewing, workers at the Cranston brewery enjoyed not just solid pay and good benefits, but complimentary beer and the encouragement to drink it. frequent advertising and the familiar slogan — "Hi, neighbor, have a ’Gansett" — combined to make the brew the top-selling brand throughout New England. Although Rhode Island might have dwelled in the shadow of Boston, Little Rhody more than held its own when it came to fostering a combo, beer and organized crime, in keeping with the state’s picaresque history, with the former generating no small share of local pride. If a worker spotted someone drinking a Heineken in the bar at the brewery, according to an account published in American Breweriana Journal, he would ask, "Why would you want to keep someone working in Holland instead of the people in your own neighborhood?"
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