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Olympics & Beer

February 26, 2010

I may have some of the facts here wrong or may simply be missing something, but over the last week of paying some passing attention to the 2010 Winter Olympics in Vancouver — especially Curling — an odd picture has emerged concerning beer and America at the Olympics. A few nights on the Stephen Colbert [...]

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Drinking All Over The Map

January 27, 2010

If you’re a regular Bulletin reader, you know I believe that the drinking age in the U.S. is too high, that the age a person can vote and fight and/or die for one’s country should also be the age he or she can drink, as well. I lived through this ridiculous hypocritical double-standard when I [...]

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Agreement Reached For InBev Takeover Of Anheuser-Busch

July 13, 2008

Well, folks, it’s all over. The deed is done, indeed. The deal for InBev to acquire Anheuser-Busch has been agreed upon in principle, for nearly $50 billion. It’s not really over, of course, because it still has to wind its way through the federal approval process. But for all intents and purposes, it’s probably just [...]

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Random Beer Names

January 27, 2008

I’m not entirely sure why this exists, but I did have fun with it — so perhaps that’s enough of a reason — but Strange Brew, a Canadian software company that makes programs for homebrewers, also has an online Random Beer Name Generator. My first beer name: Flying Squirrel-Mash Oud Bruin Being a huge fan [...]

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Carlsberg and Heineken Buy Scottish & Newcastle

January 25, 2008

It looks like the brewing brouhaha involving several large multi-national beer companies that I wrote about last week is going to be resolved more quickly then anybody had anticipated. The Carlsberg Group and Heineken today agreed to a $15.3 billion buyout of Scottish & Newcastle. The deal is structured such that Carlsberg will get sole [...]

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The Jaguar from Patagonia

January 16, 2008

If you’re like me, when you think of beer from Argentina you think of Quilmes. It’s been the best-selling brand for decades and since being acquired by InBev, has been imported to over a dozen countries, including the United States. But there are actually over forty breweries in Argentina. Another one of them, Patagonia, announced [...]

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St. James Gate For Sale?

January 13, 2008

Back in October of last year, I got slapped around quite a bit when I suggested that Guinness had closed St. James Gate already, as I heard the rumor quite some time before that it was in the works and had sort of figured that the deed had been done. Turns out I was wrong, [...]

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Alphabet Soup: A-B Enters the Fray Between S&N and CG for BBH

January 13, 2008

This is a story that’s really been going on for some time now, at least a year, probably more. In a nutshell, the BBH (or Baltic Beverages Holding) was created in 1991 by a 50/50 joint venture between Oy Hartwall (a Finnish brewing group) and Procordia Beverages, best known for Pripps (then a Swedish company). [...]

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Funny Camel, Serious Beer

January 4, 2008

There’s a nice profile in Haaretz of a new Israeli brewery, the Dancing Camel Brewing Co., which opened last August. It’s the brainchild of David Cohen, a former New York accountant who followed his dream to open a microbrewery in Israel. From the Haafretz article: Cohen, a long-time amateur brewmaster, now aims to challenge the [...]

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Top 10 Beer Stories of 2007

December 31, 2007

As the year winds down yet again — didn’t we just do this a year ago? — everybody and his brother has a top ten list for the year and I’m still no different. It helps, I think, to stop and reflect on what happened over the previous year which puts the whole year in [...]

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SABMiller Gets A Blue Tongue

December 6, 2007

SABMiller announced yesterday that they are purchasing Australia’s Bluetongue Brewery in a joint venture with Coca-Cola Amatil Limited to be known as Pacific Beverages Pty Limited. The purchase price was not revealed though it is estimated to be around $20 million USD. It has also been reported that they are considering building a greenfield brewery [...]

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Costa Rica Just Says No to Swiss Beer

December 5, 2007

I guess it’s good to know that other country’s bureaucracies are every bit as irrational as my own, especially when dealing with the regulation of alcohol and other so-called “controlled” substances. It seems the Latin American country of Costa Rica is having issues with a Swiss beer, Hanfblute, because it contains the essence of marijuana [...]

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Drink, Drank, Drunk: Who’s Number One?

December 2, 2007

Last year, the Organization for Economic Co-Operation and Development surveyed per capita consumption of alcohol across the world and ranked the top fifteen. They ranked them a bit differently than most of these surveys do. They looked at the raw amount of alcohol consumed each year per person rather than the number of servings. This [...]

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Quick Chilling Beer With Dry Ice

November 15, 2007

The New Zealand Herald reported Tuesday that a Massey University student in Auckland has invented a novel device to quickly chill beer in a fraction of the time, potentially allowing people to leave the cooler at home. It’s one of thirty inventions being exhibited at the three-day Design Exposure 2007, which began Wednesday, at Massey [...]

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Stella Artois’ Take On Their New Web Launch

November 5, 2007

Those of you who have been following the online debate among beer bloggers regarding ethics which was sparked by e-mail many of us received regarding the new Stella Artois website launch will no doubt be intrigued by their latest press release, which was about the website re-launch. In it, they claim that traffic has increased [...]

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Beer Photos From Top 10 Beer Drinking Countries

October 25, 2007

ABC News has a mildly amusing photo gallery up, one each from the top ten beer drinking countries. From the number one country, China, a beer drinking contest during the Qingdao International Beer Festival in Qingdao.  

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