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Beer campaigners oppose tax rise

Posted by admin | News | Posted on March 2nd, 2009

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- Beer campaigners oppose tax rise
- Thirsting for adventure? Pittsburgh is for beer lovers
- Fond du Lac beer and smoking gardens
- Beer and Basketball: bama’s Friday Night Probably Like Yours
- Andover man’s brew will be served at Pats games
- Tap into beer tax to combat Wisconsin’s drunken driving scourge

Beer campaigners oppose tax rise
BBC News
The Campaign for Real Ale (Camra) and the British Beer and Pub Association (BBPA) have said an above-inflation rise would be wrong. Camra chief executive Mike Benner said: “It is time for the government to think again in order to save the great British pub. MPs are expected to demand more support for pubs from ministers this week. ‘Deeply concerned’The All-Party Parliamentary Beer Group has organised a meeting on Wednesday when members are expected to put pressure on the government to axe a planned rise.

Thirsting for adventure? Pittsburgh is for beer lovers
Pittsburgh Tribune-Review
open(targetUrl); }If you love drinking beer Pittsburgh should be your kind of town. Still the national perception of us as hard-workin’ beer-drinkin’ football watchin’ blue-collar types could use a little updating. For example no Iron City Beer isn’t pumped straight out of the Monongahela River and into the faucets at Steelers games. Actually Pittsburgh has one of the country’s few remaining distinctive regional brewers in Iron City Brewing Co. and a healthy selection of craft beers — both well-established veterans like Penn Brewery and great newcomers like the East End Brewing Company. There also are some great bars that are really serious about their beer.

Fond du Lac beer and smoking gardens
Fox11online.com
“I do it myself” That is what’s concerning many taverns like Three Aces North where most of their customers are smokers. The owner of Three Aces says business has taken a big hit since the ban to the point she is thinking about closing for good. Hoping to curb that downturn the Fond du Lac City Council has recently approved several bars to build outdoor beer gardens where smoking would be permitted. “I was not in favor of the smoking ban to begin with but we have it now” said Alderman Jerry Thiesfeldt. “Businesses are in the business of making money. So we have to make adjustments to do that. ” But some businesses say it will only help during warm weather months.

Beer and Basketball: bama’s Friday Night Probably Like Yours
DCist.com
500 team and more about President bama who made the trek over from the White House to catch some Friday night hoops. bama even — gasp! — paid for his own beer and repeatedly chatted up a five-year-old Wizards fan Nick Aiello who probably wasn’t expecting to have the Prez as his courtside seat buddy. (Alright I admit I kind of hate that kid right now — courtside seats and the chance to chat with bama all evening? Nick you lucky scamp you. )After the last few years — time in which it could be asked whether George W. Bush knew the cross streets or even the neighborhood where the Verizon Center is located — it was refreshing to see our city’s most famous resident doing well something that most Washingtonians have done from time to time. f course though there’s no escaping the man’s status: the start of the game had to be delayed for a few minutes so that bama could make it in time for the tipoff.
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Andover man’s brew will be served at Pats games
Eagle Tribune
comANDVER — When the New England Patriots kick off their season this fall fans will be counting on the arm of none other than David Rosenbaum. Not that Rosenbaum 46 has any chance of taking the job of Tom Brady. No the software salesman will be behind the bar at Gillette Stadium’s Samuel Adams pub pouring the ceremonial first beer from a tap which will read “Maple Avenue Breakfast Stout” a beer he created and which is this year’s winner in a New England-wide contest of home brewers competing for the right to sell their concoctions at the football arena. “It’s huge” said Rosenbaum of the honor announced bestowed by the Boston Beer Company which makes Samuel Adams beer and sponsored the second annual Patriot Homebrew Contest. “I’m on top of the world right now. He beat out the efforts of nearly 200 other home-brewers from across the six New England states for the right to have his brew sold at the stadium all-season long. The field was initially whittled down to five finalists before the winner was announced.

Tap into beer tax to combat Wisconsin’s drunken driving scourge
Wisconsin State Journal
MAR 1 2009 – 10:31 AMTap into beer tax to combat Wisconsin’s drunken driving scourgeA Wisconsin state Journal editorials time for Wisconsin to finally belly up to the beer tax. Wisconsin has the third-lowest beer tax in the nation at just $2 per barrel. That’s only 3 cents per six pack. That’s about half a penny per bottle. And the state hasn’t raised its beer tax in 40 years — not since man walked on the moon.