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Kid Rock to have his own craft beer

Posted by admin | News | Posted on February 19th, 2009

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- Kid Rock to have his own craft beer
- Heineken Carlsberg Sales Cost Cuts Soothe Investors
- Beer Here — Wisconsin Scottish Ale from Sand Creek Brewing
- Beer tastings at Petit Louis
- Brewing Beer is Not a Sin
- Beer boosts Lion Nathan as wine drops

Kid Rock to have his own craft beer
Detroit Free Press United States -
a Webberville brewer of craft beers can produce a new product line: a craft beer for musician Kid Rock. Bobby Mason the owner-brewer at the Michigan Brewing Co. said he hoped to have the Kid Rock branded beer on the shelves by mid-springtime. The beer’s name style and pricing are yet to be decided. Kid Rock is working closely with Mason on the design naming and style of the beer Mason said. “He’s working on designing the beer he’s giving me direction he’s tasting the beers” Mason said.

Heineken Carlsberg Sales Cost Cuts Soothe Investors
Bloomberg -
Heineken which took a 757 million euro ($952 million)charge to write down British Russian and Indian assets todaywill reduce spending ?everywhere? and cut more jobs. Denmark?sCarlsberg which said its revenue probably won?t grow this yearwill trim expenses in both western and eastern Europe. Both stocks rose as the cost cuts eased concern that thebrewers overpaid and crippled themselves financially when theyspent $15 billion buying and breaking up Scottish & NewcastlePlc last year. Carlsberg and Amsterdam-based Heineken each lostmore than half their market value in 2008 suffering more thanrivals such as SABMiller Plc that steered clear of acquisitions.

Beer Here — Wisconsin Scottish Ale from Sand Creek Brewing
Isthmus Daily Page WI -
But it also contract brews for five other beer companies including Furthermore Beer of Spring Green and BluCreek of Madison). ver the last year-and-a-half Sand Creek has introduced its Select Series of beers sold in four packs. Brewery co-owner Jim Wiesender explains: “These are special beer that we allow our brewmaster Todd Krueger to a little go crazy with make something a little different and show off. ” Their latest creation is Wisconsin Scottish Ale.

Beer tastings at Petit Louis
Examiner.com -
These days the restaurant’s living up to its beer-loving roots by offering beer flights at the bar. The program started yesterday and will take place every Monday and Friday from now on. The first flight featured include 3 ounce pours of the following four beers:"The End of the World" and "Damned from Unibroue of Quebec CanadaSt. Feillien Trip from St. Feuillien of Le Roeulx BelgiumAyinger "Clebrator" Doppelbock of Brauerie Aying of BavariaThe $15 tasting also includes one full bottle of your favorite beer from the flight.

Brewing Beer is Not a Sin
Blueregon R -
I’ve been avoiding the temptation to write about it because my sense is that the offending piece of legislation–HB 2461–is really just a starting place. It seemed prudent to see what emerged before I started protesting too loudly. Today’s front-page story on the regonian forces my hand though. Very briefly here’s the nut of the issue: regon has one of the lowest beer taxes in the country at $2.

Beer boosts Lion Nathan as wine drops
Melbourne Herald Sun Australia -
The beer and wine company said it remained on track to deliver a $300-$315 million post-tax profit after unveiling strong first quarter results yesterday. Total beer volume grew 9 per cent to 221 million litres for the quarter ending on December 31. Chief executive Rob Murray said the business was in "robust" shape. "The beer market is resilient and our largest business units continue to deliver high quality costs" Mr Murray said. While beer sales boomed growing 15 per cent the fine wines operation experienced a 10 per cent revenue slump.
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