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- – KalamaBrew: Beer making brewing and microbrews – Kalamazoo Gazette…
- Storm clouds gather at Corona as beer sales fizzle
- State’s Brew Pubs Enjoying Golden Days
- Taiwan Beer edge Numen to sweep semi-finals series
- 75 years after the end of Prohibition

- KalamaBrew: Beer making brewing and microbrews – Kalamazoo Gazette…
mlive.com – Apr 6, 2008
Head brewer Tom Fuller showed us around the cozy facilities and shared with us some of the quirks that come with brewing beer and wine in a historical building that’s more than a century old. The KalamaBrew crew also saw some homespun ingenuity at work when we got a demonstration of Fuller’s homemade bottling machine.

Storm clouds gather at Corona as beer sales fizzle
Charleston Post Courier – Apr 6, 2008
But dark clouds are moving in on the beach party. The economic downturn an ill-timed price increase and rising competition have pushed Corona into a rare sales slump. Mexican brewer Grupo Modelo SA shipped 1. 7 percent less Corona to the U.

State’s Brew Pubs Enjoying Golden Days
New York Times – Apr 6, 2008
“The beer was like a Guinness beer but we added chocolate flavor and it had this kind of smoky taste” he said. “With the cake it was pretty special. ” ne might assume that beer is the last thing in need of democratization. But at the same time that craft brews have become more sophisticated their drinkers have gotten more diverse owners and brewers say. “You get motorcycle guys a lot of women young people older people — there is no one group of beer drinker” said Monty Dahm owner of the 7650-square-foot Tun Tavern in Atlantic City which opened in 1997 and serves eight types of homemade beer including a Leatherneck Stout… “The beer was like a Guinness beer but we added chocolate flavor and it had this kind of smoky taste” he said. “With the cake it was pretty special. ” ne might assume that beer is the last thing in need of democratization. But at the same time that craft brews have become more sophisticated their drinkers have gotten more diverse owners and brewers say. “You get motorcycle guys a lot of women young people older people — there is no one group of beer drinker” said Monty Dahm owner of the 7650-square-foot Tun Tavern in Atlantic City which opened in 1997 and serves eight types of homemade beer including a Leatherneck Stout. “You get beer snobs who’ll come in and hold a beer up to the light and you’re like ‘h come on. ’ But there’s a lot of other beer people.

Taiwan Beer edge Numen to sweep semi-finals series
Taipei Times – Apr 6, 2008
The win meant they swept the best-of-five semi-finals series 3-0. Taiwan Beer opened the game with a pair of three-pointers from Yen Hsing-shu and Lin ¡§the Beast¡¨ Chih-jeh against a slightly-dazed Numen defense to take a 6-2 lead before the Numen regrouped and resorted to stellar plays by all-purpose forward Jonathan Sanders and uyang Jin-hen against the defending champs to finish out the first quarter leading 23-22. The seesawing continued well into the second quarter with ¡§the Beast¡¨ leading the Taiwan Beer attack while Sanders dominated from close range with several strong rebounds and drives to the hoop to account for the bulk of the Numen¡s offense. It was not until the beer crew went on a 9-3 run in the final two minutes of the second quarter that they were able to enjoy a 43-37 lead at the half.

75 years after the end of Prohibition
St. Louis Post-Dispatch – Apr 6, 2008
Dozens of Anheuser-Busch trucks rolled into the streets carrying their first beer shipments in more than 13 years. The nation had tired of Prohibition a grand and failed social experiment and was on its way to repealing the law. PRHIBITIN’S RTSNational prohibition on alcohol manufacturing consumption and shipments started in 1920 a product of the 18th Amendment and federal legislation. But its roots went back decades emerging from a stew of religious activism optimistic reform and the thrust to regulate big business — including banks railroads and meat companies. By 1917 more than a dozen states had already drafted tough anti-alcohol laws in response to the perceived perils of alcohol: addiction violence and the breakup of families. Still the federal government relied on revenue from alcohol taxes.