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Beer wine to be made downtown

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

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- Beer wine to be made downtown
- Holiday cheer with beer
- ntario government ends buck-a-bottle beer pricing
- Teen shot by police after trying to run over cop during beer run
- The beer bottle contained a 102-year-old letter written by the …
- Facebook friends share their picks for holiday beers

Beer wine to be made downtown
The Ann Arbor News – MLive.com MI 
State taxcredits for the company are expected to be approved today. The company also plans to add a tasting room and arestaurant to the Ann Arbor location said Jon Carlson oneof two managers in charge of operating the company. It will join a small number of local businesses wherepatrons can purchase beer brewed on site such as GrizzlyPeak Brewing Co. and Arbor Brewing Co.

Holiday cheer with beer
The Courier News IL 
Think beyond eggnog or even glugg the potent Swedish spiced wine. Available for the first time in the United States this year is Freihof Jagertee a traditional hot drink used by Austrian hunters to keep themselves warm. It comes in a taste pack such as the one available from the upscale Canadian brewery Unibroue which specializes in Belgian-style beers. If your friends are celebrating Hanukkah which starts today they might get a chuckle out of a big bottle of California-made Jewbelation Twelve a 12th anniversary ale from He’brew. Those are a few of the options in the jolly portfolio of 120-year-old Lincolnwood-based Louis Glunz Beer Inc. The family-owned-and-operated business handles 665 micro specialty and import beers from 67 suppliers representing 152 breweries worldwide. Glunz’s brewmaster Ed Kane says holiday beers typically are spicy dark and hearty and have more power than your average brews.
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ntario government ends buck-a-bottle beer pricing
The Canadian Press TTAWA 
The ntario government last month quietly hiked the minimum price that can be charged for beer to $25. 60 from $24 for a case of 24 bottles. 7 per cent increase in the floor price of a case bottle deposit excluded has nothing to do with supply-and-demand production costs overhead or distribution expenses.

Teen shot by police after trying to run over cop during beer run
AZFamily AZ 
"Tomorrow’s his birthday – he’s 18 just graduated high school. " says Berta Remato Cordova’s mother. "He’s getting his life on track. " But instead of celebrating his birthday Cordova’s family is mourning his death. Phoenix police say late Friday night they caught Cordova and his friends shoplifting from a gas station.

The beer bottle contained a 102-year-old letter written by the …
BBC News UK 
If refers to the blocking up of several flues on “Easter Eve” in 1906 after a new heating system was installed. At that time the museum which opened to the public in 1892 was heated by stoves and according to Mr Scott these were superseded by a “Hot Water Heating Apparatus”. ‘Precariously balanced’In his message he wonders if the flue will ever be reopened and if the bottle which once contained Usher’s Extra Hopped Beer will survive. Joe Kipling 18 said that the bottle was precariously balanced and could easily have smashed and been lost forever if it had been caught by the masonry drill. “We were all curious as to what was in the message and it caused a lot of interest among the men on site” he said. Adrian Jenkins director of the Bowes Museum said: “It’s intriguing to have found this tangible link to the museum’s past. “We are proposing to leave our own mark during the transformation for future generations to discover.

Facebook friends share their picks for holiday beers
Examiner.com 
Here’s what they’ve been saying so far:Sam: I’m going to try and find about a case of Big Porch Ale by Bell’s here in Michigan. Enjoyed a six pack last week and I thought it was fantastic.