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Thank Women for Popularizing Beer

Will McCahill — Wed, 31 Mar 2010 20:17:00 CDT

Though both the brewing and consumption of beer might seem to have “manly” stamped all over them, it’s in fact women who drove suds’ popularity. Since thousands of years before Christ, a British historian tells the Daily Mail , brewing was done in the home, and females were in charge. Cleaner...

Beer Prices Going Up

Harry Kimball — Tue, 25 Aug 2009 16:23:34 CDT

The nation’s largest brewers plan to raise beer prices in the fall, the Wall Street Journal reports. Anheuser-Busch InBev—maker of Budweiser—and MillerCoors will further test the notion that beer is generally recession-proof. “The environment is very favorable, we think,” says an Anheuser exec. Both companies have been able...

Here Comes Kid Rock Beer

Harry Kimball — Tue, 17 Feb 2009 17:18:59 CST

The auto industry may be tanking, but Michigan has a new small-scale savior: Kid Rock Beer. A Michigan brewery has landed a tax credit to produce a line of beer with the rocker's name and image, the Detroit Free Press reports. It's expected to create about 400 new jobs in...

Ethanol on Tap From Beer Dregs

Harry Kimball — Tue, 03 Feb 2009 17:50:01 CST

Brewer Sierra Nevada is part of an effort to turn byproducts of the beer-making process into usable, alternative fuel, CNET reports. E-Fuel sells a $10,000 portable ethanol refinery that the brewer will feed with its yearly output of 1.6 million gallons of “bottom of the barrel” waste. The...

Guinness Sales Flat in ... Ireland?

Harry Kimball — Sat, 12 Jul 2008 16:46:30 CDT

Ireland still drinks a lot of beer—only the Czechs down more—and continues to chug a lot of Guinness. But in a cultural shift in the newly vibrant nation, sales of the national drink have steadily declined in recent years, as harried white-collar workers skip the pub on the...

Cheers: Feds OK Miller, Coors Merger

Harry Kimball — Thu, 05 Jun 2008 17:46:30 CDT

The US Justice Department today approved a merger between Miller and Coors, opening the door to a union that will command almost 30% of US beer sales, the Wall Street Journal reports. Anheuser-Busch, the country’s largest brewer, controls about 50%. Regulators said the merger—expected to be wrapped up mid-year—...

Making Mead Creates a Buzz Among Foodies

Jim O'Neill — Sat, 01 Mar 2008 06:34:50 CST

Mead, that honey-based alcoholic drink last popular around King Arthur’s Round Table, is making a comeback—well, sort of, Nicholas Day reports in Slate. Meaderies are springing up around the US, publishers have printed a spate of how-to books, and the Internet is rife with mead-making sites that include step-by-step...