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Beer: Pittsburgh BrewMasters club is closer to Moon

Posted by admin | News | Posted on January 17th, 2008

The News Review:

- Beer: Pittsburgh BrewMasters club is closer to Moon
- South Africa SABMiller beer volumes rise by 4%
- Beer Friend: Davao Love Affair
- Thanks to Trappist hoppy days are here again
- Beer Board Hands ut Suspension For 5 Firms
- Japan Beer Quasi-Beer Shipments Hit Record Low in ’07

Beer: Pittsburgh BrewMasters club is closer to Moon
Pittsburgh Post-Gazette – Pittsburgh Post Gazette – Jan 17, 2008
htm –>Beer: Pittsburgh BrewMasters club is closer to MoonThursday January 17 2008Bt Bob Batz Jr. Pittsburgh Post-GazetteLast night as the Pittsburgh Beer Society celebrated its first birthday another beer-tasting group held its first meeting. The Pittsburgh BrewMasters “a group of cool people who enjoy tasting and learning about beer” was to gather for an 8 p. tasting of Belgian brews at the Sharp Edge Creekhouse in Crafton. The group is to work much like the Pittsburgh Beer Society: You RSVP online and at the door pay $10 with all the money going to the venue to pay for the six beers you get to sample that night.

South Africa SABMiller beer volumes rise by 4%
Moneyweb – Jan 17, 2008
Reuters17 January 2008 00:00LNDN (Reuters) – Global brewerSABMiller said on Thursday its third-quarter worldwide underlying beer volumesrose just 4 percent at the bottom of analysts’ forecasts after a slowdown inLatin America Europe and China and a fall in volumes in South Africa. SABMiller the world’ssecond-biggest brewer and maker of Miller Lite Peroni and Castle added thatrevenue continued to benefit from price increases which have offset the impactof higher input costs from grain energy and aluminium. The brewer said its financialperformance was in line with its expectations while its results reported inU. dollars will be positively affected by the stronger Colombian peso SouthAfrican rand and certain European currencies.

Beer Friend: Davao Love Affair
Manila Bulletin – Jan 17, 2008
Davaoeños love eating though most people associate them with durian and chicken barbecues they are open to new ideas. This is very apparent with the opening new restaurants around the city. I already know where the local foodies go ? or at least most of them. And the places the locals go to are small often grimy and definitely not the place where they bring visitors; unless of course the visitor is very adventurous.

Thanks to Trappist hoppy days are here again
Contra Costa Times – Jan 17, 2008
n Sunday night Jenny Marke and I hit the Trappist an homage to all that is good and true and serious about artisan brewing. f the world’s Trappist monasteries half a dozen or so (mostly in Belgium) produce beer and they are revered among beer drinkers around the world. The tiny pub is another notch in ld akland’s big hipster belt; a promise that it won’t be long before the neighborhood is the East Bay’s answer to urban chic. I already buy raw-milk brie and designer denim there.

Beer Board Hands ut Suspension For 5 Firms
The Chattanoogan – Jan 17, 2008
The most stiff punishment went to Mr. Zip on Frazier Avenue. fficers said previous offenses were in 1997 and in 2004. In this case fficer John Collins said an 18-year-old who was working in a sting tried to buy beer at Mr.

Japan Beer Quasi-Beer Shipments Hit Record Low in ’07
japancorp.net – Jan 17, 2008
Shipments decreased 0. 3 pct from the previous year to 496. 08 million cases declining for the third consecutive year and hitting the lowest level since the industry started compiling data in 1992. The previous low was marked only in 2006.