Blogs
- Share Heineken Sales Down in US
- First half sales fall 2.5% Dutch brewer Heineken NV reported first half net profit fell by 8 percent to $430.4 million versus the same period last year. The company blamed the weak dollar and costs from restructuring its business in Western Europe. In the United States, where Heineken owns or ...
- Share Brick Brewing has Exceptional Summer
- Sales volume increases 31 percent Brick Brewing Co. announced strong growth in both sales and profits for the three month period ending July 31st. The Canadian brewery says its second-quarter profit rose 62% to a record $1.35 million in “an exceptional summer” for selling beer that ...
- Share Record Attendance at 8216Worlds Biggest Part8217
- Six million visitors attended Munich’s 172nd annual Oktoberfest, setting a new record for attendance, although beer consumption was down somewhat from recent years. Record prices of more than 8 dollars per one-liter stein of beer may have contributed to making this year’s partiers more ...
- Share USAToday Covers Craft Industry on the Rise
- USAToday, in its August 4th issue, gave the craft beer industry a shinning glow as it covered the rising tide in popularity of the segment. The p focused on “extreme” beer styles and a “reinvigorated” craft beer category. The first paragraph is enough to entice just about anyone to try a domes ...
- Share When You Don039t Feel Like Lederhosen
- German designers hope Oktoberfest visitors will wear their skirts German designers want male drinkers at Oktoberfest in Munich to wear skirts this year. They claim their Oktoberfest Frock is more comfortable than traditional lederhosen. “With all that beer flowing at the fest you need to make ...
- Share Carlsberg wields ax
- Carlsberg, the world’s fifth-largest brewer, could close up to 14 of its 29 breweries in Europe as part of a plan to streamline its production on the continent. The Danish brewery, producer of Carlsberg and Tuborg beer brands, has not decided yet which breweries would be closed, and when, or ...
- Share Alpha King Challenge Winners Announced
- On Friday, Sept. 30, the panel of experienced beer judges selected the following four beers as the best-tasting and best-balanced out of the 37 super-hoppy beers entered: 1st – Torrey Pines IPA, Oggi’s Pizza & Brewing Company, Vista, Calif., brewer – Jeff Bagby 2nd – Pl ...
- Share Frauenbier
- German pharmacies sell more of ‘health beer’ than aspirin A German brewer has taken aim at the female market by producing a beer called “Karla” that it claims does everything from calming the mind to preventing cancer. The maker notes Karla contains health boosting ingre ...
- Share BA Makes Personnel Change
- Gatza to spend full time on craft industry segment he Brewers Association has promoted Gary Glass from project coordinator to the position of American Homebrewers Association (AHA) Director. The significance of this move to the craft brewing industry is that Paul Gatza, who led both the Brewer ...
- Share Google Adds Beer Mapping Feature
- Google Maps has introduced a new system that plots the locations of 1430 U.S. Breweries and BrewPubs. BeerMapping.com subdivides the U.S. into regional Google Maps to explore all the locations of these establishments. Included are city beer maps linked for cities like Chicago, Boston and San Franc ...
