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Brewers Say Beer Prices to Rise in 2008

Posted by admin | News | Posted on October 23rd, 2007

The News Review:

- Brewers Say Beer Prices to Rise in 2008
- Brewer offers lifetime supply of beer for return of stolen laptop
- Police: Adult bought beer for teens involved in fatal DUI
- Could vibration keep a beer belly at bay?
- Beer festival to celebrate Scouts
- Expanded Beer Pong tourney hits Chuck’s Café tonight
- Inside wine and spirits

Brewers Say Beer Prices to Rise in 2008
YLE – Oct 23, 2007
Director Timo Jaatinen says a number of factors will push up the price of beer including the higher cost of raw materials and labour. Brewers also intend to discontinue cut-rate prices for beer bought in bulk. All this plus the rising alcohol tax will affect the cost of beer. Jaatinen did say that price of some individual products might decrease slightly.

Brewer offers lifetime supply of beer for return of stolen laptop
Herald-Times – The Herald-Times (subscription) – Oct 23, 2007
Croucher Brewing Co. co-owner Paul Croucher said Friday the computer contains “all our financials” as well as label designs for new beers and business contacts. “So we decided that if anyone does come into possession of it we’ll be happy to offer them a reward — a dozen (bottles) of beer a month for the rest of their life” he said. Croucher estimated the total value would likely be about $19500 for a lifetime of beer.

Police: Adult bought beer for teens involved in fatal DUI
WHAS 11.com – WHAS 11.com (subscription) – Oct 23, 2007
– Metro Police hope to identify and track down an adult who bought beer for two teens last weekend just hours before one of them died in an apparent drunk driving wreck. They know the store where the beer was bought and its believed tonight they’ve seen the face of the person who made the purchase. “The surviving passenger told us we were drinking all day and we got some more beer from an adult who purchased it for us at a store” says Lt. Doug Sweeney of Metro Police. “We’re reviewing store security tapes from the location where it was purchased.

Could vibration keep a beer belly at bay?
MaineToday.com – mainetoday.com – Oct 23, 2007
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Beer festival to celebrate Scouts
Ipswich Evening Star – Oct 23, 2007
NEARLY 100 people turned up to a German Beer evening in celebration of 100 years of Scouting. Fears that the rugby World Cup final between England and South Africa would lead to low numbers were quashed as scores of beer lovers flocked to the event on Saturday night organised by the leaders of the 24th Ipswich Scouts. Special bottles of beer specially labelled BP Ale after Baden Powell the Scout’s founder were created to mark the anniversary of the first Scout camp on Brownsea Island in 1907. The limited edition bottles were only on sale at the event at Westbourne Sports College Marlow Road Ipswich due to licensing laws. All the money raised from their sales will go towards purchasing transport for the scouts in the Sproughton Road area.

Expanded Beer Pong tourney hits Chuck’s Café tonight
SU The Daily range – SU The Daily range (subscription) – Oct 23, 2007
How Much: $20 register at worldpongtour. comAbout 128 people will be sinking them and drinking them Tuesday night in a test of beer pong skills. World Pong Tour Enterprises is hosting the third annual beer pong tournament at Chuck’s Cafe on Crouse Avenue tonight at 7 p. “It’s a really good time for everyone” said Sam Pines CE of the World Pong Tour and Marist College graduate. “People are really competitive and it’s a great way to meet new people.

Inside wine and spirits
Marin Independent-Journal – Oct 23, 2007
That was followed by a question about why various distilled spirits taste the way they do. The answers to those are subjective on the one hand and technical on the other but they tell us a lot about why things taste one way or another. Take beer for instance. Beer is nothing more than a wine made from the fermentation of various grains and then given added flavor by the addition of other ingredients most frequently the dried flowers of a vine called “hops. ” There is of course nothing simple about the making of specialty beers and you can get no better information on that subject than by reading Bill Brand’s columns. Beer by the way is the first step in the making of almost all distilled spirits. It does not matter Advertisement yld_mgr… Take beer for instance. Beer is nothing more than a wine made from the fermentation of various grains and then given added flavor by the addition of other ingredients most frequently the dried flowers of a vine called “hops. ” There is of course nothing simple about the making of specialty beers and you can get no better information on that subject than by reading Bill Brand’s columns. Beer by the way is the first step in the making of almost all distilled spirits. It does not matter Advertisement yld_mgr. place_ad_here(“adPosBox”); whether we are talking about Scotch whisky or vodka the first step is always the conversion of starch or sugar through fermentation into a “low wine” or “beer” typically of 4 percent to 15 percent alcohol depending on the source of the fermenting medium. Brandy is distilled from wine with alcohol in the teens while bourbon and other whiskeys and even most white spirits are made from grains and tend to be much lower.