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Winners of Boston Beer Co. home-brew contest

Posted by admin | News | Posted on April 15th, 2009

The News Review:

- Winners of Boston Beer Co. home-brew contest
- Remembering Fidrych’s last happy beer in the limelight
- Beer Wars small brewers’ battle
- Beer pleasure on main street USA or who brewed the most beer in 2008
- This Tax Is for You
- Looks like NASA smells like beer
- Cincinnati Man Arrested For Selling Stolen Beer Stein

Winners of Boston Beer Co. home-brew contest
Newsday
which produces Samuel Adams has encouraged hop lovers and malt mavens nationwide sponsoring an annual home-brew contest. Three winners have been named from 1300-plus entries. Now they’ve come together in the “Samuel Adams LongShot Variety Package” a six-pack with two bottles of each. So the 2008 stars include a double India pale ale a traditional bock and a cranberry “white” beer.

Remembering Fidrych’s last happy beer in the limelight
Detroit Free Press
” Fidrych presented the game ball to Jim Leyland and his mother who were in the box seats then left the field and re-emerged from the dugout for a curtain call just as he had done so many times four years earlier. In the clubhouse Fidrych sat cross-legged in his grass-stained uniform and sipped a Stroh’s Light with a ripped label. “I haven’t had a happy beer in a long time” he said. That was his last complete game and last victory in front of his adoring hometown fans. He never pitched in the majors after the 1980 season. The Tigers released him in 1981. Contact BILL McGRAW at.

Beer Wars small brewers’ battle
Houston Chronicle
Thursday at the following local theaters: • Cinemark Memorial City: Memorial City Mall • Marq*E Stadium 23 & IMAX: 7620 Katy Freeway • AMC Willowbrook 24: Texas 249 and North Gessner • AMC Gulf Pointe 30: Interstate 45 South and Beltway 8 • AMC Deerbrook 24 • : U. 59 and FM 1960 East Humble • AMC First Colony 24: Next to First Colony Mall Sugar Land • Cinemark Katy: Interstate 10 at the Grand Parkway Katy • Cinemark Webster: I-45 South at NASA Parkway Webster • Cinemark at Market Street • : Six Pines at Lake Robbins Spring • Tickets: All theaters $15 Beer lovers or anyone fascinated by the inner-workings of a powerful American industry may want to reconsider their plans for Thursday. A new documentary Beer Wars is showing for one night only. The film examines the struggle small brewers face in an industry dominated by two major players that control 80 percent of the market. It will be screened simultaneously (except on the West Coast) via satellite at 440 theaters nationwide. At the conclusion a panel of experts will appear on screen for a live discussion moderated by Ben Stein.

Beer pleasure on main street USA or who brewed the most beer in 2008
Examiner.com
It’s worth noting that these particular rankings are based on volume of beer produced in 2008. Is this a valued measurement? In one assessment perhaps “more” reflects a measure of how far American beer culture has progressed. These are quite difficult to objectively measure. America’s local media are encouraged to contact their local breweries and interview them directly to assess how some of the smallest businesses in America assess their success.
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This Tax Is for You
Wall Street Journal
In their sober unwisdom the state’s pols plan to raise taxes by 1900% on. The tax would catapult to $52.

Looks like NASA smells like beer
The Post-Standard – Syracuse.com
6million barrels each year. It’s currently making 36 separate beverages. Not allof them strictly speaking are beer. The brewery produces astartling diversity of products. Beer of course remains by volume the biggest productespecially the leading brands like Budweiser Bud Light andMichelob.

Cincinnati Man Arrested For Selling Stolen Beer Stein
WKRC TV Cincinnati
Tyrone Meadows was supposed to appear before a judge on charges that he tried to sell an extremely rare stein made by Rookwood Pottery in Cincinnati. He was arrested Monday but let go. Meadows was recaptured yesterday in Clermont County where he now also faces a charge of failure to pay on back child support. Meadows allegedly stole a Rookwood stein called the "Soaring Sow.