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Anheuser-Busch distributors to handle Virginia beer

Posted by admin | News | Posted on December 19th, 2007

The News Review:

- Anheuser-Busch distributors to handle Virginia beer
- Yellow Empire State building beer-and-doughnut ice cream for NYC
- Sapporo to Raise Beer Prices 3-5% on Ingredient Costs (Update1)
- China heads global beer league
- Baby bock born in a wintry delivery
- The beer crisis
- Man Arrested n Suspicion f Beer Burglary

Anheuser-Busch distributors to handle Virginia beer
St. Louis Post-Dispatch – Dec 19, 2007
has inked an alliance with a small brewery in Charlottesville Va. making the country’s biggest beer-maker the master distributor of  Starr Hill Pale Ale Jomo Lager and Dark Starr Stout. Louis-based Anheuser-Busch  has been beating the bushes for new products — even in small batches — that can satisfy adult drinkers looking for specialty products. Increasingly the company is willing to join forces with little breweries.

Yellow Empire State building beer-and-doughnut ice cream for NYC
New Zealand Herald – Dec 19, 2007
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Sapporo to Raise Beer Prices 3-5% on Ingredient Costs (Update1)
Bloomberg – Dec 19, 2007
20 (Bloomberg) — Sapporo Holdings Ltd. the Japanbrewer subject to a hostile takeover offer said it willincrease beer prices to cover the rising cost of ingredients. The retail price of Sapporo's beer product line will likelyrise by 3 to 5 percent April 1 as the company passes alongsupplier price increases company spokesman.

China heads global beer league
Food Week – Dec 19, 2007
It is the fourth year in a row that China has taken the number one spot according to Japanese company Kirin Holdings. Chinese beer consumption in 2006 rose by 14. 8% to 350 million hectolitres from 2005 said Kirin.

Baby bock born in a wintry delivery
Toronto Star – Dec 19, 2007
We think spice cake or roast goose would be dandy. THEVERDICT: A behemoth of a beer which is dangerously easy to drink forits strength and complexity. It’s also a spectacular bargain at theprice… Dec 19 2007 04:30 AM Josh Rubin Beer reporter In the late 1980s and early ’90s there was a fad for ice beers among big North American brewers. These exotic brews we were told had a "smooth taste" (brewer’s code for bland and inoffensive). The main selling point however was their relatively high alcohol content usually around 6 or 7 per cent. "Try this and you’ll get hammered for a relatively cheap price" would have been a more accurate slogan. Comparing those beers to Schneider Aventinus Eisbock ? which arrived in the LCB earlier this month ? would be like comparing the work of a house painter to Michelangelo’s Sistine Chapel.

The beer crisis
Economist – Portugal – Economist – Portugal – Dec 19, 2007
In order to gain access to it please either Log in Activate your complimentary web account if you are a print subscriber or Subscribe now The beer crisis America’s beer crisisDec 19th 2007From The Economist print edition JUST as the festive season gets going drinkers in America are finding their favourite beer suddenly more expensive or even—horrors!—not available at all. Hit by price increases and shortages many breweries particularly the small “craft brewers” and the even smaller microbreweries are being forced to raise prices make do with modified recipes or shut off the spigots altogether. The humble hop the plant that gives beer its distinctive flavour is the main problem. Many farmers in the Pacific north-west where America’s hop production is concentrated have turned to more profitable lines—especially corn which can be made into ethanol. The decrease in hop production put at some 50% over the past decade has sent prices through the roof.

Man Arrested n Suspicion f Beer Burglary
KETV.com – Dec 19, 2007
– A man was arrested after he allegedly took two cases of beer from a south maha convenience store. Police said Aaron Little 19 faces destruction of property theft and shoplifting charges after the incident which happened just before 2 a. Wednesday at Best Mart Convenience Store at 1222 S.