What’s Good for Beer Is Good for the Country
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- What’s Good for Beer Is Good for the Country
- Super Bowl not that super as a beer holiday
- Mayhem follows Beer Store robbery
- Beer battle brewing in Legislature
- Tri-County Boating Alliance plans Feb. 21 wine beer tasting …
- AB InBev Jumps in Brussels as JPMorgan Says Debt Concern Easing
- Just as chips need good beer wings need good dip
What’s Good for Beer Is Good for the Country
New York Times United States
The Danish brewer Carlsberg announced it was cutting about 275 jobs in Europe. Diageo which makes everything from Cuervo tequila to Guinness put on hold an $840 million expansion of beer production in Ireland. The British Beer and Pub Association reported that pubs were struggling across the country as beer sales fell to their lowest in 70 years. Makers of other forms of tipple are getting worried too. Rob Sands president and chief executive of Constellation Brands the world’s biggest wine company warned this month that he was “recalibrating our sales expectations” to account for the weak macroeconomic environment. I had expected booze to behave more like Big Macs or items sold at Wal-Mart which do well in bad times because consumers trade down.
Super Bowl not that super as a beer holiday
Kasper n Tap MD
So I was disappointed to learn that in the rankings of our nation’s big beer holidays Super Bowl rates a lowly eighth. According to data from the Nielsen Co. consumers bought a mere 51. 7 million cases of beer in the two weeks surrounding last year’s Super Bowl. That trails the 68.
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Mayhem follows Beer Store robbery
Globe and Mail Canada
The drama started to unfold at about 7:30 p. on Saturday when police were called to an armed robbery at a Beer Store on Symington Avenue near Dupont Street and Lansdowne Avenue.
Beer battle brewing in Legislature
Topeka Capital Journal KS
–>Beer battle brewing in LegislatureBy Tim CarpenterThe Capital-JournalPublished Sunday January 25 2009perators of convenience and grocery stores are trying to tap into a broader market in Kansas with a bill allowing the establishments to stock regular beer. Advocates of the reform say the monopoly held by liquor stores on the sale of full-strength packaged beer should be broken.
Tri-County Boating Alliance plans Feb. 21 wine beer tasting …
Appleton Post Crescent USA
21 wine beer tasting fundraiser | Postcrescent. com | Appleton Post-Crescent.
AB InBev Jumps in Brussels as JPMorgan Says Debt Concern Easing
Bloomberg
5 billion a year partly throughincreased purchasing power and job cuts. ?We see scope forthese savings to be exceeded by up to $1 billion throughaggressive fixed cost management? Gibbs wrote. The brewer which controls half the U. beer market mostlythrough its Budweiser brand may also be better placed towithstand a slowdown that is hurting demand for beer in emergingmarkets from Latin America to eastern Europe the analyst said.
Just as chips need good beer wings need good dip
Munster Times IN
HIRSCHAP Food Editor | Monday January 26 2009 | No comments posted. Because apparently fatty foods demand fatty accompaniments blue cheese dip has long been the de facto condiment of the must-have food of Superbowl parties — chicken wings. Actually it makes sense. Fat-on-fat usually isn’t a great pairing but in this case it works. The tangy bite of the blue cheese cuts through the fat of the chicken while the creaminess mellows the heat of the sauce.
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