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NEWS ABOUT: brewing

brewing stories: 6 news summaries

 Beer Prices Going Up 


Aug 25, 09 4:23 PM CDT
(Newser) - 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... More »

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beer • beverages • retail sales • price increases • MillerCoors • brewery • Anheuser-Busch • brewing • InBev

 Here Comes Kid Rock Beer 


Feb 17, 09 5:18 PM CST
(Newser) - 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... More »

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beer • Michigan • University of Michigan • branding • Kid Rock • tax breaks • brewery • brewing • Drinks America

 Ethanol on Tap 
 From Beer Dregs 

Brewer Sierra Nevada gets in on plan to produce alternative fuel

Feb 3, 09 5:50 PM CST
(Newser) - 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.... More »

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ethanol • alternative energy • beer • biofuel • alternative fuels • brewing • Sierra Nevada Corp. • E-Fuel

 Guinness Sales
 Flat in ... Ireland? 

As international sales flourish, production will be cut back at home

Jul 12, 08 4:46 PM CDT
(Newser) - 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... More »

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beer • Ireland • Dublin • brewing • Guinness • international sales

 Cheers: Feds OK
 Miller, Coors Merger 

Feds approve plan; new company would control 30% of market

Jun 5, 08 5:46 PM CDT
(Newser) - 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... More »

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Department of Justice • merger • beer • Molson Coors Brewing Co. • MillerCoors • Miller Brewing • Anheuser-Busch • brewing

Making Mead Creates a Buzz Among Foodies

Ancient brew kinda cool, but not likely to replace Bud

Mar 1, 08 6:34 AM CST
(Newser) - 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... More »

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Connecticut • honeybee • honey • Beowulf • mead • brewing • meaderies • Rabbit's Foot Meadery • Mountain Meadows Mead • King Arthur • The Compleat Meadmaker • home brewing

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