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November 2008
- Beer 101? Now, That's a Party School!
  
  Chicago Tribune | Nov 10, 08 4:49 PM CST
  
  (Newser) - The University of Wisconsin is starting a class with one thing you’d think its students would already know well: beer. But the offering is about the science of brewing, focuses on fermentation, and is taught by the bacteriology department, the Chicago Tribune reports. “This is not a course to help kids go out and slam beers on Friday night,” the instructor said. More »
October 2008
- University researchers developing cancer-fighting beer
  
  Computer World | Oct 21, 08
  
  "A team of researchers at Rice University in Houston is working to create a beer that could fight cancer and heart disease. Taylor Stevenson, a member of the six-student research team and a junior at Rice, said the team is using genetic engineering to create a beer that includes resveratrol, the disease-fighting chemical that's been found in red wine."
- Oktoberfest Brews Gotta Be 'Poundable'
  
  New York Times | Oct 1, 08 2:48 PM CDT
  
  (Newser) - To wash down sausages, sauerkraut, and pretzels, Oktoberfest beer must flow like a dinner wine: "Worthy of attention without demanding to be the center of attention," writes Eric Asimov in the New York Times. And with festive consumption measured in liters, it must also be "poundable." Asimov and a tasting panel sampled 24 Oktoberfest beers, judging them on their traditional Bavarian style. Some standouts: More »
September 2008
- Chinese Beer to Dethrone Bud Light
  
  Wall Street Journal | Sep 11, 08 1:56 PM CDT
  
  (Newser) - A Chinese favorite may have replaced Bud Light as the world’s best-selling beer, without selling a single keg outside of China, the Wall Street Journal reports. One research firm says 1.35 billion gallons of Snow Beer were consumed last year to 48.4 million of Bud Light, while another says the US brand holds a 1.37 billion-1.35 billion edge. More »
- Calif. Brewer Wins Fight to Sell 'Legal Weed'
  
  Los Angeles Times | Sep 2, 08 1:27 PM CDT
  
  (Newser) - Vaune Dillmann can market his beer from the small California town of Weed with the slogan "Try Legal Weed" after regulators backed off what could have been a drawn-out court battle, the Los Angeles Times reports. The feds tried to block Dillmann, citing a law prohibiting drug references on alcoholic beverages. "They said I was guilty of a thought crime," he said. More »
August 2008
- Tastes Great or Less Filling? Old Ad Slogan Coming Back
  
  Chicago Tribune | Aug 20, 08 7:35 PM CDT
  
  (Newser) - Does it taste great, or is it less filling? Miller Lite drinkers can have it both ways, the Chicago Tribune reports: The beer’s 30-year-old slogan “Great taste, less filling” is being resurrected for a fall advertising campaign coming to a TV, radio, and store near you. Parent company MillerCoors is trying to unseat light-beer king Anheuser-Busch. More »
- The Hardest-Drinking US Cities
  
  Forbes | Aug 11, 08 2:45 PM CDT
  
  (Newser) - Famous for its arts festivals and home to a large college population, Austin, Texas, takes top honors as America’s hardest-drinking city, reports Forbes in its distillation of behavioral data from the CDC. Here are the top 5: Austin—1 in 5 admit to binge drinking, and 9% of men have two drinks a day. More »
- Wii Caught Up in Beer Pong Brouhaha
  
  Time | Aug 1, 08 8:40 AM CDT
  
  (Newser) - The video game version of frat-boy favorite beer pong is getting watered down, Time reports. An outcry from parents concerned about youthful binge-drinking has forced JV Games to change the name of its new Wii release to Pong Toss —and to swap the virtual beer in the game's cups to virtual water. More »
July 2008
- Federal Alcohol Labeling Rules Don't Go Down Easy
  
  Reason Magazine | Jul 24, 08 2:05 AM CDT
  
  (Newser) - 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 »
- 'King of Beers' Gets a Taste of Own Medicine
  
  Salon | Jul 17, 08 2:40 PM CDT
  
  (Newser) - 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 »
- MillerCoors Taps Chicago for New Headquarters
  
  Chicago Tribune | Jul 16, 08 2:25 PM CDT
  
  (Newser) - 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 »
- Critic Cries in Beer Over Ballpark Brews
  
  Portfolio | Jul 14, 08 5:07 AM CDT
  
  (Newser) - 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 »
- Belgian-Brazilian InBev Buys Anheuser-Busch for $52B
  
  Wall Street Journal | Jul 14, 08 4:10 AM CDT
  
  (Newser) - 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 »
- Guinness Sales Flat in ... Ireland?
  
  Los Angeles Times | 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 way home, and foreign workers opt for a taste of home instead of “the black stuff,” the Los Angeles Times reports. More »
- InBev Boosts Bid for Bud, Making Buyout Likely
  
  Wall Street Journal | Jul 11, 08 10:55 AM CDT
  
  (Newser) - 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 »
- Beer: Cause of, and Solution to, Civilization
  
  Washington Post | Jul 10, 08 12:18 PM CDT
  
  (Newser) - 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 »
- Preachy Bar Managers Stir Brewhaha
  
  Daily Telegraph (UK) | Jul 6, 08 2:00 PM CDT
  
  (Newser) - 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 »
- Lift a Glass to Belgian Bid for Bud
  
  Washington Post | Jul 6, 08 10:29 AM CDT
  
  (Newser) - 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 »
June 2008
- Budweiser to Reject InBev Offer
  
  Wall Street Journal | Jun 25, 08 7:00 PM CDT

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Beer 101? Now, That's a Party School!

University researchers developing cancer-fighting beer

Oktoberfest Brews Gotta Be 'Poundable'

Chinese Beer to Dethrone Bud Light

Calif. Brewer Wins Fight to Sell 'Legal Weed'

Tastes Great or Less Filling? Old Ad Slogan Coming Back

The Hardest-Drinking US Cities

Wii Caught Up in Beer Pong Brouhaha

Federal Alcohol Labeling Rules Don't Go Down Easy

'King of Beers' Gets a Taste of Own Medicine

MillerCoors Taps Chicago for New Headquarters

Critic Cries in Beer Over Ballpark Brews

Belgian-Brazilian InBev Buys Anheuser-Busch for $52B

Guinness Sales Flat in ... Ireland?

InBev Boosts Bid for Bud, Making Buyout Likely

Beer: Cause of, and Solution to, Civilization

Preachy Bar Managers Stir Brewhaha

Lift a Glass to Belgian Bid for Bud

Budweiser to Reject InBev Offer