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The Kansas City Star Mo. Lauren Chapin column: Pumpkin beers’…

Posted by admin | News | Posted on October 31st, 2007

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- The Kansas City Star Mo. Lauren Chapin column: Pumpkin beers’…
- Analyst to Wall Street: Show some respect to the King (of Beers)!
- NW THAT’S NE ALE F A JB

The Kansas City Star Mo. Lauren Chapin column: Pumpkin beers’…
Free with registration – Kansas City Star – AccessMyLibrary.com – Oct 31, 2007
31–These days Peter the Pumpkin Eater isn’t bothering to put the missus in his pumpkin. He’s using his orange orb to hold his beer. Yep pumpkin beer is all the rage… This year he made 10000 cases. The bottles that are left are as scarce as teeth on a jack-o’- lantern. ne sign that pumpkin beers are here to stay: The Brewers Association gave the 14 pumpkin entries a subcategory of their own at the Great American Beer Festival earlier this month in Denver. In years past pumpkin beers were lumped in the general category of Fruit and Vegetable Beers. And Great Pumpkin from Elysian Brewing Co. in Seattle won the silver medal in the Fruit and Vegetable category. Although the colonists including President George Washington made pumpkin beer the seasonal brew essentially disappeared from brewers’ repertoire.

Analyst to Wall Street: Show some respect to the King (of Beers)!
St. Louis Post-Dispatch – Oct 31, 2007
In a note to investors last week that was at times scathing and sarcastic  the  Deutsche Bank equity analyst tried to demolish what he perceives as Wall Street’s jaundiced  attitude towards Anheuser-Busch Cos. His point: the country’s biggest beer-maker gets too little respect for solid performance  and  a flexible business strategy that has  dramatically upgraded  the company’s beer porfolio in recent months. Louis-based brewer’s third-quarter results  released earlier this month “featured healthy pricing stable volumes better InBev integration and higher  equity income” Greenberg wrote.  ”But apparently that’s not good enough.

NW THAT’S NE ALE F A JB
New York Post – Oct 31, 2007
Let's hope he gets a stipend for Advil. We opened the tap in his brain. Worst beer faux pas? Putting a lime in the beer. The way I view it is if I'm having a beer I want to taste the beer not the lime. Best hangover cure? Water. There's nothing better than that. I think the real way to avoid hangovers though is to appreciate beer instead of getting drunk on it.