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July 2008
- Federal Alcohol Labeling Rules Don't Go Down Easy
  
  newser | Reason Magazine | Jul 24, 08 2:05 AM CDT
  
  Energy drink makers can give their products names like Cocaine and Speed Freak, and it's fine for a perfume to be called Opium. But when a California microbrewer from the tiny town of Weed submitted an application for a new beer to the federal Alcohol and Tobacco Tax and Trade Bureau, he was told that his company’s slogan—“Try legal Weed”—had to go, Reason reports. More »
  
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  alcohol • beer • bureaucratic blunders • Alcohol and Tobacco Tax and Trade Bureau
- 'King of Beers' Gets a Taste of Own Medicine
  
  newser | Salon | Jul 17, 08 2:40 PM CDT
  
  Anyone who thinks InBev’s buyout of Budweiser represents the end of American beer needs a history lesson, writes Edward McClelland in Salon. Budweiser became the “King of Beers” by killing every other heir to the throne. In 1960, America had 175 traditional, regional breweries, making lagers just like Bud. Anheuser-Busch systematically crushed them all, through its distribution and marketing might. More »
  
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  beer • history • Anheuser-Busch • Budweiser • InBev • brewery • craft brewers
- MillerCoors Taps Chicago for New Headquarters
  
  newser | Chicago Tribune | Jul 16, 08 2:25 PM CDT
  
  Chicago will be home to the new corporate headquarters of beer conglomerate MillerCoors, the Tribune reports. The Windy City edged out Dallas to serve as a neutral location for the nerve center of Denver-based Molson Coors and Milwaukee-based Miller. Chicago attracted MillerCoors because it has "access to an attractive base of talent, transportation and business resources," company president Tom Long said. More »
  
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  Chicago • alcohol • Illinois • beer • Denver • Dallas • Milwaukee • MillerCoors • Windy City
- Critic Cries in Beer Over Ballpark Brews
  
  newser | Portfolio | Jul 14, 08 5:07 AM CDT
  
  Nothing like downing a cold one while watching the game at the ballpark—or is there? On a beer-tasting tour of select baseball stadiums, Portfolio's connoisseur Franz Lidz found the brew generally lukewarm, with a rank aftertaste. "Nobody tastes stadium beer," said his neighbor at Shea Stadium. "It tastes like nothing." More »
  
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  baseball • beer • Budweiser • stadium • Shea Stadium • Dodger Stadium • Miller Brewing
- Belgian-Brazilian InBev Buys Anheuser-Busch for $52B
  
  newser | Wall Street Journal | Jul 14, 08 4:10 AM CDT
  
  Legendary American brewing company Anheuser-Busch has agreed to a $52 billion takeover bid by the Belgian-Brazilian InBev, building the largest beer firm in the world and ending over 150 years of ownership by the Anheuser and Busch families, the Wall Street Journal reports. The $70-per-share deal is a step up from an earlier, rejected offer. More »
  
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  acquisitions • beer • Anheuser-Busch • InBev • brewery • Adolphus August Busch V
- Guinness Sales Flat in ... Ireland?
  
  newser | Los Angeles Times | Jul 12, 08 4:46 PM 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 way home, and foreign workers opt for a taste of home instead of “the black stuff,” the Los Angeles Times reports. More »
  
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  beer • Ireland • Dublin • Guinness • brewing
- InBev Boosts Bid for Bud, Making Buyout Likely
  
  newser | Wall Street Journal | Jul 11, 08 10:55 AM CDT
  
  InBev has increased its bid for Anheuser-Busch to $70 a share, the Wall Street Journal reports. Although willing to replace the Budweiser-brewer’s board in a hostile takeover, the $5-per-share boost—bringing the total deal to $50 billion—is a signal that InBev would prefer to keep things friendly. Anheuser will probably accept the new offer, sources told the Journal . More »
  
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  mergers and acquisitions • beer • buyout • Anheuser-Busch • Budweiser • InBev • brewery
- Beer: Cause of, and Solution to, Civilization
  
  newser | Washington Post | Jul 10, 08 12:18 PM CDT
  
  Recently, Investor’s Business Daily had the effrontery to suggest that Americans might cut down on beer “and other non-essential items.” It was a statement that sent Washington Post columnist George F. Will into a frothy rage. Beer is completely essential—without it civilization as we know might not exist. Early urbanites had just one respite from waterborne illness, he notes: Beer. More »
  
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  alcohol • beer • evolution • George Will
- Preachy Bar Managers Stir Brewhaha
  
  newser | Daily Telegraph (UK) | Jul 6, 08 2:00 PM CDT
  
  Praise the Lord and pass the beer—or at least that's the vision a devout Christian couple may have had for the London pub they were hired to manage. But patrons found the couple's preachy exhortations to prayer, Bible quizzes, and ban on cursing and gambling downright annoying. More »
  
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  beer • bars • religious conflict • holy site • pubs
- Lift a Glass to Belgian Bid for Bud
  
  newser | Washington Post | Jul 6, 08 10:29 AM CDT
  
  Belgian beer company InBev’s bid for Anheuser-Busch may look like an affront to a US tradition—but it's perfectly in keeping with the American spirit of entrepreneurship, writes Maureen Ogle in the Washington Post . It’s “precisely the sort of bold strike that launched the American Revolution and still fuels the American dream"—and if Adolphus Busch were alive today, he’d hire InBev’s CEO. More »
  
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  beer • Anheuser-Busch • Budweiser • InBev • American dream
- Cindy's Considerable Coin May Cost Political Capital
  
  newser | Politico | Jul 2, 08 7:10 PM CDT
  
  Cindy McCain family's fortune—being used for campaign subsidies, hefty real-estate purchases, big credit card tabs, unpaid property taxes, and huge household help budgets—is raising eyebrows on the campaign trail, Kenneth Vogel writes in Politico. And Democrats seem ready to collect, with interest, on the scrutiny aimed at Teresa Heinz Kerry in 2004. More »
  
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  John McCain • beer • Cindy McCain • condominium • Teresa Heinz Kerry • property tax
June 2008
- Budweiser to Reject InBev Offer
  
  newser | Wall Street Journal | Jun 25, 08 7:00 PM CDT
  
  Anheuser-Busch plans to reject Belgian brewer InBev's $46 billion offer to buy the company, the Wall Street Journal reports. The decision is not expected to deter InBev, however, which could launch a hostile takeover bid, the Journal notes. InBev wants to acquire the St. Louis brewer—the maker of Budweiser—to create the world's largest beer maker. More »
  
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  beer • Anheuser-Busch • hostile takeover • Budweiser • InBev
- Summer's Best Craft Beers
  
  newser | San Jose Mercury News | Jun 22, 08 2:59 PM CDT
  
  Sick of the bland beer everyone else is drinking? As summer officially kicks off, William Brand pours a frosty glass of small-but-mighty suds suggestions in the San Jose Mercury News : Alaskan Summer Ale (Alaskan Brewing): This gold-medal-winning Juneau native makes an excellent thirst-quencher, in the Kolsch style you might've savored in Cologne. More »
  
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  alcohol • beer • summer • drinking • craft brewers
- Wife's Beer Co. Could Be Big Headache for McCain
  
  newser | Los Angeles Times | Jun 22, 08 7:36 AM CDT
  
  Cindy McCain's role as chairwoman of one of the nation’s largest beer wholesalers could turn into a thorny conflict-of-interest problem if John McCain wins the White House, the Los Angeles Times reports. Mrs. McCain's Hensley & Co.—one of its executives is John McCain's son, Andrew—takes an active role in lobbying against alcohol-related legislation. While her husband has long recused himself from such issues as a senator, he wouldn't be able to easily do so as president. More »
  
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  John McCain • election 2008 • alcohol • beer • first lady • Cindy McCain • conflict of interest
- Budweiser to Buy Corona to Stave Off Stella?
  
  newser | Wall Street Journal | Jun 13, 08 6:55 AM CDT
  
  Anhueser-Busch has approached Mexian brewer Grupo Modelo about a possible merger, the Wall Street Journal reports, in an attempt to thwart an unwanted $46.35 billion takeover bid from Belgium’s InBev NV. Anhueser already owns 50% of Modelo, which is best known for its Corona brand. By buying the other 50%, it hopes to move out of InBev’s price range. More »
  
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  mergers and acquisitions • beer • Anheuser-Busch • Budweiser • InBev • Stella Artois • Grupo Modelo
- Cheers: Feds OK Miller, Coors Merger
  
  newser | Wall Street Journal | Jun 5, 08 5:46 PM 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—“is not likely to lessen competition substantially.” More »
  
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  merger • beer • Anheuser-Busch • Justice Department • Miller Brewing • MillerCoors • brewing • Molson Coors Brewing Co.
May 2008
- An Other-Worldly Brew on Tap
  
  newser | Associated Press | May 31, 08 11:40 AM CDT
  
  Want to try a heavenly lager? Come November, you might get a chance. Japan's Sapporo Breweries is harvesting barley this weekend from seeds that spent 5 months aboard the International Space Station, the AP reports. It then plans to brew 100 bottles of space beer, though it hasn't figured out yet who will actually get to drink it. More »
  
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  International Space Station • beer • deep space • science experiment • seeds • Russian Space Agency
- Guidelines for Solo Boozing
  
  newser | Esquire | May 30, 08 7:05 PM CDT
  
  Being a lone drinker in a place as socially teeming as your local watering hole is a tough business. The trick is to treat the activity as a sacred art form, not as the last refuge of the social pariah, says Esquire . Its rules: Start early. No small talk. People-watch. Drink whiskey. No mixing. More »
  
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  beer • bars • binge drinking • whiskey
- 'Legal Weed' Beer Slogan Has Feds Hopping Mad
  
  newser | Los Angeles Times | May 28, 08 8:32 PM CDT
  
  The feds are cracking down on a small brewer in Weed, Calif., because they're very much unamused by the slogan on his bottle caps: "Try Legal Weed." A bureau of the Treasury Department says the phrase not only alludes to marijuana but misleads consumers about the ingredients of Weed Ales, reports the Los Angeles Times . The 61-year old brewer faces big fines and sanctions but isn't budging. More »
  
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  California • beer • marijuana • microbrewing • weed • Alcohol and Tobacco Tax and Trade Bureau
- Belgium's InBev Mulls Budweiser Takeover
  
  newser | Wall Street Journal | May 24, 08 12:48 PM CDT
  
  Belgian-based brewer InBev NV is considering an unsolicited takeover of Anheuser-Busch, the Wall Street Journal reports. The Busch family is loathe to sell the 150-year-old American icon and brewer of Budweiser—Executive August A. Busch IV vowed it wouldn’t happen “on my watch”—but activist investors have been scooping up shares, hoping to force the issue. InBev and Anheuser are the world’s second- and third-largest brewers by volume. More »
  
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  mergers and acquisitions • beer • Anheuser-Busch • Budweiser • InBev • Stella Artois • SABMiller PLC

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