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Cheers for home-brewed beers

Posted by admin | News | Posted on April 21st, 2008

The News Review:

- Cheers for home-brewed beers
- InBev says all white beer production to transfer to revamped Hoegaarde…
- bama or Hillary? Beer drinkers split
- Far Eastern to sell beer to Chinese
- Making Mount Horeb famous: Beer wins gold

Cheers for home-brewed beers
Independent nline – Apr 21, 2008
By Jacques BreytenbachThe sounds of clinking beer glasses accompanied by laughter good food and compliments filled the afternoon air at Kimiad in Moreleta Park on Saturday as the Wort Hog Brewers Club held its annual summer beer festival. Club members turned out in force to showcase their brewing talents at the festival now in its eighth year. Although most of the members only brew beer as a hobby there are others who take their brewing seriously and have gone the commercial route. ‘In short we are passionate about beer’The brewer of the best beer wins an opportunity to enter his or her beer into the American National Home Brew Association’s annual brewers’ competition. This year’s winner was Andre de Beer of Cockpit Brew who started brewing seven years ago.

InBev says all white beer production to transfer to revamped Hoegaarde…
Forbes – Apr 21, 2008
said all its white beer production will be transferred to its revamped Hoegaarden site from June 1. A spokesperson told Thomson Financial News that currently 80 percent of its Hoegaarden white beer is being produced at the facility while 20 percent is being manufactured at the group’s Jupille site. From June 1 100 percent of the group’s white beer will be produced in Hoegaarden.

bama or Hillary? Beer drinkers split
Chicago Sun-Times – Apr 21, 2008
– Just a few blocks from the factory where they make York Peppermint Patties White House hopeful Barack bama told 2600 Pennsylvanians he could do a better job than Hillary Clinton of bringing jobs back to this hard-hit economy. The Hershey company announced earlier this year it will close the peppermint patties plant and move the jobs to Mexico where the product can be made more cheaply. “Two hundred and sixty-eight workers are scheduled to lose their jobs when the local Hershey’s plant transfers that down to Mexico later this week” bama said. Actually a security guard at the plant said Sunday he heard it would stay open through December. “They’re going to frickin’ Mexico” an angry social worker Kim Wittich 50 said after her 6-week-old foster daughter became the “101st” baby kissed by bama.

Far Eastern to sell beer to Chinese
Taipei Times – Apr 21, 2008
style1 {font-weight: bold} –> Following the acquisition of a Chinese brewery last month Far Eastern Textile Co (»·ªF¯¼´) the nation¡s largest textile maker plans to start selling beer in China this summer a Chinese-language media report said yesterday. Far Eastern Textile said it invested a total of US$12 million in Chung Bi Beer (¤¤¤?s) a brewery in Suzhou which produces both self-branded beer and sells polyethylene terephthalate (PET) beer bottles a company filing with the Taiwan Stock Exchange at the end of last month said. Prior to Far Eastern Textile¡s investment in the Chinese brewery the company had invested US$98 million in a bottle-grade PET chip plant in Suzhou last year with an estimated production capacity of 280000 tonnes. The company expects the plant to start mass production this quarter the China Times reported. With the company now having the capability to produce beer and beer bottles Far Eastern Textile could start selling beer in China as early as this summer.

Making Mount Horeb famous: Beer wins gold
Milwaukee Journal Sentinel – Milwaukee Journal Sentinel (subscription… – Apr 21, 2008
Milwaukee-based Lakefront Brewery Inc. ‘s Lakefront Bock won a silver award in the traditional German-style bock category which had 21 entries. You’ve probably seen those TV spots for Miller Lite bragging about gold medals the brand has won at the World Beer Cup. The Grumpy Troll Restaurant and Brewery in Mount Horeb doesn’t have TV ads. But the brewpub about 25 miles west of Madison does have a World Beer Cup gold medal which it won Saturday in San Diego. The Grumpy Troll was one of just three Wisconsin breweries – along with Miller and Milwaukee’s Lakefront Brewery Inc. – to win an award at this year’s competition which drew nearly 2900 entries from 644 breweries in 58 countries.