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MPs to taste award-winning beer

Posted by admin | News | Posted on October 16th, 2007

The News Review:

- MPs to taste award-winning beer
- For drinkers of craft beer prices may soon be hopping
- SABMiller Molson Coors Merger to Lift `Chill’ Sales (Update4)

MPs to taste award-winning beer
BBC News – Oct 16, 2007
Hobsons Mild will be the guest beer in the Strangers Bar in the run up to Christmas after a request by MP for Ludlow Philip Dunne. The beer is brewed in his constituency in Cleobury Mortimer near Ludlow and was voted the best in Britain at the Great British Beer Festival in August. 2% drink was described by judges as having “plenty of hop character”.

For drinkers of craft beer prices may soon be hopping
Seattle Post Intelligencer – Oct 16, 2007
For drinkers of craft beer prices may soon be hopping. Also bitter: possible price increases from craft breweries over the next few months because of a shortage of hops and malt.

SABMiller Molson Coors Merger to Lift `Chill’ Sales (Update4)
Bloomberg – Oct 16, 2007
operations with Molson next year under anct. The tie-up would give MillerCoors 30 percent of thenation's beer market and access to hundreds of newdistributors. Miller also needs Chill to revive U. profitwhich fell 17 percent last year after it cut prices to matchAnheuser-Busch Cos. and failed to win drinkers with new ads… unit Stirling said. The MillerCoors venture will lift sales of Chill and otherniche beers such as Leinenkugel's and boost profit because thebrewers aim to save $500 million a year on manufacturing andshipping costs by merging operations. The accord still needsregulatory approval. Stock Upgrade The MillerCoors tie-up prompted Citigroup analyst.