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Beer Buzz: Abita Strawberry Harvest Lager is a perfect thirst-quencher

Posted by admin | News | Posted on April 22nd, 2009

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- Beer Buzz: Abita Strawberry Harvest Lager is a perfect thirst-quencher
- T/6 Filling Station in Central Tucson now serving beer
- San Jose lawmaker’s beer-tax plan is back
- Beer and apps
- Beer tax supporters: Idea gains momentum
- Woman accused of buying beer for teens indicted
- Green beer 101

Beer Buzz: Abita Strawberry Harvest Lager is a perfect thirst-quencher
Dallas Morning News
THE PITCH: "I’m typically a very-dark-beer drinker – a Guinness drinker – but I really like this beer" Hobday says. "It isn’t overly sweet so it appeals to a much wider range" of beer drinkers. "It’s definitely a lighter lager style. It has just a hint of strawberry without being sweet and it’s real smooth. It’s a spring-summer or warm-weather beer. " SERVE IT PAIR IT: "With the heat here in Texas at the end of the day.

T/6 Filling Station in Central Tucson now serving beer
Arizona Daily Star
in January without beer. Counts who owns Nimbus Brewing Co. had bought the liquor license held by the building?s previous occupant Long Wong?s but waited to serve beer until he had won city approval for several zoning changes he wanted to make.
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San Jose lawmaker’s beer-tax plan is back
San Jose Mercury News
Undeterred the South Bay assemblyman is back at it — and this time his proposal for a hefty new fee on alcohol may have a better ahem shot at passage. Beall’s Assembly Bill 1019 would slap a roughly 10 cents-a-drink levy on beer wine and hard alcohol. And he’s structured it as a fee which can pass the Legislature with a simple majority vote rather than a tax which takes a two-thirds supermajority to be enacted. Also possibly aiding his cause this time around is the fact that Gov.

Beer and apps
Boston Globe
com I don’t have an iPhone (yet) but if I did I’d start collecting beer-related apps. The president of the. Ann Cortissoz April 22 2009–>.

Beer tax supporters: Idea gains momentum
Bizjournals.com
The regon Partnership which helped craft House Bill 2461 said a Moore Information Inc. survey showed that 61 percent of regonians would favor a 15-cent a glass beer or wine cost increase if the money funded substance abuse treatment and prevention programs. The move would establish the Alcohol Impact Remediation Fund which would distribute money to various agencies that address treatment and recovery issues. If it passes it would take effect this fall.

Woman accused of buying beer for teens indicted
Seattle Times
— A Klamath Falls woman who allegedly bought 180 cans of beer for an underage drinking party is charged with criminally negligent homicide in the death of an 18-year-old who attended. — A Klamath Falls woman who allegedly bought 180 cans of beer for an underage drinking party is charged with criminally negligent homicide in the death of an 18-year-old who attended.

Green beer 101
Mother Nature Network
CM > Food > Beer Green beer 101 MNN’s primer on organic and sustainably produced brew. By Stephanie RogersThu Apr 23 2009 at 5:59 AM ESTRead more: RGANIC PRDUCTS SUSTAINABILITY. Since green beer first appeared on store shelves in the 1990s the selection has exploded with varieties ranging from smooth pale ales to dark chocolaty stouts. Green beer is now being produced all over the world — so more often than not you can find one that’s local too. What exactly makes a beer green? Any beer that’s either made with organic ingredients brewed using environmentally friendly processes or both fits the bill.