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Joe Six-pack meet Charles Chardonnay

Posted by admin | News | Posted on June 6th, 2009

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- Joe Six-pack meet Charles Chardonnay
- Strange brew: Beer and office democracy
- Move ver Wine: Beer is
- Del. should join nation with beer at groceries
- Beer to flow at Pipe Yard

Joe Six-pack meet Charles Chardonnay
The Associated Press
And he’s man enough to admit it. That’s hardly surprising since Dennison is winemaker at the Modesto-based Redwood Creek winery but is he an exception?Judging by some marketing campaigns you might think so. Take the Super Bowl ad that ran a couple years back in which men invited to a wine and cheese party sneaked into the kitchen to unpack beer hidden in a fake wheel of cheese. It was a stereotype played for laughs — in real life lots of men like wine — but maybe one with a crumb of cultural truth. The designator for “average dude” in political campaigning last fall was Joe Six-pack not Peter Pinot Noir. It’s hard to say for sure exactly who’s drinking what but a Gallup Poll from last July found that among women who drink 43 percent say wine is what they drink most often and 28 percent say beer. Among men who drink 58 percent say beer is what they drink most often and 17 percent say wine.

Strange brew: Beer and office democracy
CNNMoney.com
likes to do things differently. After one year of work each employee receives an ownership stake in the company and a free custom bicycle. After five years every employee enjoys an all-expenses-paid trip to Belgium — the country whose centuries-old beer tradition serves as a model for the Fort Collins Colo. h yeah and employees get two free six-packs of beer a week. "There’s something wrong if making beer can’t be fun" says CE Kim Jordan who co-founded the company with her husband Jeff Lebesch in 1991 (he retired a decade later). The perks aren’t just for fun though.
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Move ver Wine: Beer is
MyFox Washington DC
Back in 1984 Koch began brewing what would become Samuel Adams Boston Lager in his kitchen using a recipe belonging to his great grandfather. That beer became one of the pioneer beers in what he refers to as the craft beer revolution in the United States. Now Koch says we’re seeing what he calls an explosion in craft beer brewing in the America.

Del. should join nation with beer at groceries
The News Journal
should join nation with beer at groceries | Delawareonline. com | The News Journal.

Beer to flow at Pipe Yard
The Morning Journal
For sections its the headline list –>By SCT ALLYN. com LRAIN — Lorain City Council gave its blessing to beer sales at NorthCoast Knights games at The Pipe Yard yesterday. Due to quick work by the team’s general manager Josh Hayes fans will be able to down a cold one at today’s home opener at 6:05 p. Lorain Is Pro Baseball a non-profit organization requested a permit from the hio Division of Liquor Control to sell beer at The Pipe Yard in Campana Park. The permit application had been submitted a week earlier but Lorain Is Pro Baseball learned Thursday that City Council authorization was required according to Rey Carrion president of Lorain Pro Baseball.