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Thieves Swipe Truckload of Corona

Tue, 08 May 2012 12:39:05 CDT

Somebody is a few thousand limes away from one big party. Police in central Pennsylvania are searching for a missing beer trailer loaded with about 1,800 cases of Corona. Carlisle police say the trailer was stolen from a distributor sometime between Friday and yesterday. Perhaps not coincidentally, Saturday marked...

How a 1909 Law Is Holding Back the Post Office

Matt Cantor — Sat, 05 May 2012 09:42:08 CDT

The Senate has an idea to help save the Postal Service: Let people mail alcohol. After all, FedEx and UPS carry the stuff all the time. But a law from 1909—established 10 years before Prohibition came into effect—bars the Postal Service from shipping "all spirituous, vinous, malted, fermented,...

Alabama Bans 'Dirty Bastard' Beer Over Label

Fri, 20 Apr 2012 18:16:14 CDT

You can buy Fat Bastard wine in Alabama, but you'll have to go elsewhere for Dirty Bastard beer. The state alcoholic beverage control agency has banned sales of the beer in the state because of the profanity on its label. The idea is to keep it away from young, innocent...

Wait, Beer Boosts Your Brain?

Kevin Spak — Thu, 12 Apr 2012 10:05:18 CDT

You know how you get when you've got a couple pints in you: You stumble a bit, talk too loudly, and completely rock at brainteasers. A new study suggests that downing a little beer actually improves some cognitive functions. Researchers at the University of Illinois in Chicago got a group...

Flailing Anheuser-Busch Tries New Beers, Intimidation

Kevin Spak — Thu, 29 Mar 2012 10:26:32 CDT

Anheuser-Busch InBev is desperate to turn its sales around. Sure, it's still the biggest beer company in the US, but shipments have fallen for three straight years, thanks to the growing popularity of small, independent craft brewers. But this year Budweiser's got a plan, president of North American operations Luiz...

British Plan: No More Super-Cheap Booze

Matt Cantor — Fri, 23 Mar 2012 09:22:05 CDT

Britain's heaviest drinkers could soon find themselves paying an extra $200 a year for booze. Despite resistance from his health secretary—and despite his own limited-government philosophy—David Cameron is today announcing a plan to set a minimum price of 40p, or about 63 cents, per unit of alcohol, the...

Oops: Waiter Dumps Beer on Merkel

John Johnson — Tue, 28 Feb 2012 14:21:08 CST

Bad: Being a waiter and dumping several glasses of beer on a world leader. Worse: It's caught on video. A 21-year-old waiter in Germany emptied his tray onto the back of Chancellor Angela Merkel last week, though she took it like a good sport, reports USA Today . The Daily Intel...

Santorum: Big Beer's Best Friend

Kevin Spak — Tue, 21 Feb 2012 14:35:47 CST

Rick Santorum is a tireless crusader for Christian values, the traditional family, and… beer? Yep, during his Senate career, Santorum was the beer industry's main man, in part because some major breweries are located in Pennsylvania. From 1995 to 2006, brewers, beer executives, and wholesalers pumped $80,000 into Santorum's...

Sioux Tribe Sues Beer Makers for $500M

Rob Quinn — Fri, 10 Feb 2012 01:20:00 CST

The town of Whiteclay, Nebraska, has only 14 residents, but four beer stores which sell nearly 5 million cans a year. If you think those numbers sound strange, you're paying more attention than beer makers, a lawsuit from the Oglala Sioux Tribe charges. The Pine Ridge reservation—where alcohol is...