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What’s Good for Beer Is Good for the Country

Posted by admin | News | Posted on January 25th, 2009

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- What’s Good for Beer Is Good for the Country
- Beer battle brewing in Legislature
- Asahi becomes first Japanese beer maker to invest in major Chinese …
- Getting together for a cold beer in Durango
- Marston’s reports weak beer sales but outperforms rivals
- The 50th Anniversary of the Aluminum Beer Can
- The Inauguration Beer Goggles Are Coming ff and ur Ugly Economic …

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.

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.

Asahi becomes first Japanese beer maker to invest in major Chinese …
Mainichi Daily News Japan 
99 percent stake in Chinese beer giant Tsingtao the first time for a Japanese beer company to invest in a major Chinese brewery company officials said. Asahi will buy a portion of Anheuser-Busch InBev’s stake in Tsingtao in March for 59. It plans to use Tsingtao’s network to boost its sales in China.

Getting together for a cold beer in Durango
Denver Post C 
Starting Wednesday Snowdown celebrates its 31st year as a deliberately eccentric event. Snowdown 2009 has more than 60 contests and challenges including a frosty outdoor plunge into an inflatable pool filled with beer and the Snowdown Follies an amateur talent show so popular that its 2000 tickets sold out before Thanksgiving. The Snowdown Follies long ago outgrew one theater. This week the Follies will be staged in two theaters with an A cast and a B cast that switch stages at intermission. ver the years people added events. Some are born as inside jokes like the Fashion Do’s and Don’ts Show which embraces a USA Today article that described Durango as the worst-dressed city in the U.

Marston’s reports weak beer sales but outperforms rivals
guardian.co.uk UK 
Marston’s which owns more than 2250 pubs said today that like-for-like profits fell by 6% at its tenanted pubs in the 15 weeks to 17 January. “Trading in the Christmas and New Year weeks showed a slight improvement compared to recent trends but as expected trading in January to date has been more subdued” the company said. It has tried to support its tenants through rent concessions and price discounts on beer.
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The 50th Anniversary of the Aluminum Beer Can
Packaging Digest IL 
After several years in development the first can was introduced for use at the Coors Golden brewery on Jan. This invention revolutionized the beer and consumer packaged goods industry and spurred recycling efforts nationwide. MillerCoors continues that commitment to innovation and sustainable development today. "We are proud to be a part of history and the recycling revolution that resulted from this innovative aluminum can invention. Today as MillerCoors innovation continues to drive our people and our business. And true to our legacy we will do it the right way by being a good corporate citizen and steward of our environment" Pete Coors chairman of MillerCoors said.

The Inauguration Beer Goggles Are Coming ff and ur Ugly Economic …
AlterNet CA 
I’ve completely sobered up and I’m back to normal. I said I’m back to "normal. " My inauguration day beer goggles are off and — jeezusholychit! — what’s that ugly thing my bed?!h yeah it’s the same ugly thing that was there before the change of administrations. A closer look reminds me it’s the body of our once-vibrant economy. Rigor mortis has set in and frankly it’s beginning to stink. A growing number of people are just starting to figure out that we’re on a lifestyle-changing path a path 95 percent of us alive today have never imagined much less been forced to travel. I only mention all this because I suspect a lot of you out there are clinging in an unhealthy and unhelpful way to your inauguration beer goggles.