Beer can boost ‘spiritual or mental’ health, says Kirin president


Det fanns aldrig några garantier för att bryggerier skulle bli det vanligaste nya företaget i Sverige på tiotalet. 

Eller för att svenskarna samtidigt skulle dricka mindre och bättre, bland annat genom att villigt betala betydligt mer för hantverksöl än för aldrig så högbeskattad ljus lager.

Mattias Svensson SvD 21 juni 2026

https://www.svd.se/a/JOBVxj/fria-samhallen-ar-goda-samhallen


I måndags fick Keane Brewing i Larsberg äran att ta emot några mycket framstående gäster för en ölprovning. 



Bland dem fanns EU-kommissionens ordförande - Ursula von der Leyen, Sveriges statsminister - Ulf Kristersson, Europaparlamentets ledamot Tomas Tobé och den svenska riksdagsledamoten Jessica Rosencrantz.

https://englundmacro.blogspot.com/2024/06/kristersson-manar-till-enighet-i-orolig.html






Japanese brewer’s Takeshi Minakata says alcohol ‘can be a good thing’ as it ‘helps make people happy’


Heineken chief Dolf van den Brink, who told the FT that beer’s qualities as a “social lubricant” should play an important role in the debate about alcohol.

 “In this time of loneliness and a mental health epidemic”, beer’s role in bringing people together was “important to make part of the public debate”, he said.

Financial Times 20 June 2026

https://www.ft.com/content/f97a3ea9-29c5-42bb-bf4e-d4f6929b40d1


Regeringen gav Folkhälsomyndigheten i uppdrag att lyfta ”existentiell hälsa”. Nu uttalar sig socialminister Jakob Forssmed (KD) efter Aftonbladets granskning.

– Det här är grundläggande för att en människa ska fungera. Syftet var att se om vi kan inkorporera mer av arbetet för att ge utrymme för den här typen av frågor i folkhälsoarbetet, inte nödvändigtvis i sjukvården men i det breda folkhälsoarbetet.

Enligt Aftonbladets uppgifter ska den tidigare generaldirektören Karin Tegmark Wisell varit skeptisk till uppdraget – och kort därefter fått sparken.

https://englundmacro.blogspot.com/2026/06/18-juni.html


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