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Venezuela: Chavez’s takeover of popular beer manufacturer likely …

Posted by admin | News | Posted on March 16th, 2009

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- Venezuela: Chavez’s takeover of popular beer manufacturer likely …
- St. Patrick RevealedThe man behind the green beer and myth.
- Think Before You Drink That Green Beer
- Apparently green beer and asparagus deliver the same results.
- Founders Beer Dinner at South Philly Tap Room

Venezuela: Chavez’s takeover of popular beer manufacturer likely …
San Diego Union Tribune
March 16 2009 CARACAS Venezuela — Venezuelan President Hugo Chavez is threatening to take over food company Empresas Polar a company that makes the country’s top beer but it could be an unpopular move. Faced with inflation that reached 30 percent last year and tumbling oil revenues the socialist leader has stepped up confrontations with food businesses through state takeovers new regulations and warnings he may nationalize Polar if it does not produce food at lower prices. That would pit his self-styled revolution against a company that makes many popular products including the signature Pilsener Polar beer and the corn flour used in ?arepas? Venezuela’s traditional griddle cakes. ?I think the government has done a lot of good things but taking over Polar I really don’t like that idea? said Ana Tovar a grocery store employee in the poor Caracas neighborhood of La Vega. ?Those are the products that people like.

St. Patrick RevealedThe man behind the green beer and myth.
Slate
Patrick RevealedThe man behind the green beer and myth. By David PlotzPosted Monday March 16 2009 at 1:54 PM ETn March 17 revelers will drink green beer (and. ” In a 2000 piece reproduced below Plotz stripped the myth away from St. Patrick evaluating the many different popular incarnations that have arisen in the years since his birth.

Think Before You Drink That Green Beer
New York Times
Patrick’s Day parade. Buried beneath the celebration there is ? as always ? misery on St.
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Apparently green beer and asparagus deliver the same results.
Examiner.com
philadelphiaeagles. The cooler of green beer was generously shared among the crowd and left me more then a little tipsy. The crowd dispersed as the parade ended but my Fishtown friends and I decided to head back to our hood and continue the celebration at the local pub. I always love those moments when I randomly meet people and end up having a great time. I can honestly say this happens often in this city. It’s no wonder we’re called the City of Brotherly Love you can always find a friend here.

Founders Beer Dinner at South Philly Tap Room
Philadelphia Citypaper
Chef Scott Schroeder designed a whopping nine courses around the. Anyone who’s gotten their ass kicked by a Breakfast Stout knows that the Founders beers are typically huge in both flavor and ABV so Schroeder’s approach to the eats was equally keyed up.