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AP IMPACT: Wife’s beer fortune gives McCain access to wealth ‘”…

Posted by admin | News | Posted on April 3rd, 2008

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- AP IMPACT: Wife’s beer fortune gives McCain access to wealth ‘”…
- Recession threat not causing brewers to cry in their beer
- Beer: Illinois man hits it big with home brew
- Man scaling fence strangles in straps of beer-filled backpack
- Beer highs and bike thrills at IIT-B

AP IMPACT: Wife’s beer fortune gives McCain access to wealth ‘”…
International Herald Tribune – Apr 3, 2008
The National Beer Wholesalers Association opposed the legislation and told its members it had at least succeeded in “delaying and diluting the final version. ” McCain voted against the bill because he objected to “pork-barrel spending” Hazelbaker said. n some high-profile issues McCain disagrees with his wife's industry.

Recession threat not causing brewers to cry in their beer
St. Louis Post-Dispatch – Apr 3, 2008
"Beer is the best place to go — financially and personally — in a recession" he wrote. Brewers including St. Louis-based Anheuser-Busch Cos. the country’s biggest beer maker are hoping investors and drinkers agree with him.

Beer: Illinois man hits it big with home brew
Pittsburgh Post-Gazette – Pittsburgh Post Gazette – Apr 3, 2008
htm –>Beer: Illinois man hits it big with home brewThursday April 03 2008By Joe Gray Chicago Tribune. a homebrewer who won the Samuel Adams American Homebrew Contest. By Joe GrayRodney Kibzey of Lombard Ill. got hooked on making beer during a brewery tour in Milwaukee a few years back.

Man scaling fence strangles in straps of beer-filled backpack
Seattle Times – Apr 3, 2008
Police say 51-year-old James Francis Henry had been drinking beer Tuesday night while walking with his girlfriend 38-year-old Kelli Jo Barkley. They were returning to their homeless encampment from their roadside panhandling site. Barkley says he fell while trying to scale a 6-foot chain link fence got his neck caught in the chest strap of his backpack and said “Help me! Help me!”By the time she got a nearby resident to call 911 and emergency crews arrived Henry was unconscious and could not be revived. Police said his backpack contained about a dozen 40-ounce bottles of beer.

Beer highs and bike thrills at IIT-B
Times of India – Apr 3, 2008
Keeping up with this trend IIT-Bombay had recentlyorganised beer-making and bike-modification workshops at its annual symposiaAzeotropy ’08 and Radiance’08. Festivals at instituteslike the IIT-B are initiated with the motive of showcasing technical domainresearch and to promote enthusiasm for the field. That is also why suchworkshops are organised. So whyis this concept flourishing? Says Rohit Bhide a student of mechanicalengineering “We have varied interests and are fascinated by different things.