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- Share New Features Announced for 2005 GABF
- The Brewers Association has announced details for the 2005 Great American Beer Festival, September 29 – October 1, at the Colorado Convention Center in downtown Denver. The 2005 edition of the annual GABF will feature 1600 beers, from 372 American breweries. It will be the biggest selection ...
- Share Pittsburgh Brewing8217s Woes Mount
- Pittsburgh Brewing, best known for producing Iron City beer, warns that it needs help with a pension plan covering about 530 current and former employees. However, vice chairman Joseph Piccirilli denied the company is in danger of going out of business. He said his main goal is to protect jobs by i ...
- Share 8216Gansett8217 Beer Reborn
- A Rhode Island man hops to revive Narragansett Lager Beer, one of the most popular brands in the state’s history. Mark D. Hellendrung, 37, of Middletown, the former president of Nantucket Nectars, was part of a small group of New England investors who last month bought the rights to the Narra ...
- Share BridgePort Brewing Company Captures Record Seven Beer Medals
- BridgePort Brewing Company, Oregon’s oldest craft brewery, received an unprecedented seven medals – one for every beer it entered – in the 2005 Australian International Beer Awards (AIBA), which were held last month in Melbourne. Nearly 800 beers from 107 breweries competed in the ...
- Share Hottest beer in town
- Survey finds many British pubs serving cask ale too warm Efforts to set aside the notion that British “real ale” should be served warm and flat apparently have fallen on deaf ears. A survey of pubs across England found that 44% of pints exceed the suggested serving temperature of 55 ...
- Share Wine 039Wins039 Poll
- But beer sales figures tell different story Is wine really supplanting beer as America’s favorite alcoholic beverage? A recent Gallup poll would indicate so, although sales figures provide a different answer. The Gallup survey found that 63% of Americans drink alcohol, and that 39% of the ...
- Share Craft Beer Category Continues to Crank
- Brewer’s Association reports growth of 7.1% in first half of year The Brewer’s Association reported this week that sales of domestic craft beer is up 7.1% through the first half of 2005 versus the same period last year. The growth estimate is based on quarterly reports published by the publi ...
- Share Colder Can
- Labatt Breweries in Canada claims its new high-tech can will keep beer cold up to twice as long. The can will initially be used for the Labatt Blue Cold One six-pack, the 473-millilitrer “tall boy” size of the brewery’s flagship brand. The pack will sell for the regular price of $ ...
- Share Busch birthday bash
- Anheuser-Busch is going retro to celebrate the 50th anniversary of Busch beer, using vintage packaging to appearl to nostalgic consumers. The commemorative cans and bottles are based on designs used when A-B launched Busch in 1955, the first new brand introduced by the brewer after Prohibition was ...
- Share Big Mac and Brew
- InBev suggests new meaning for ‘Super size me’ Belgium-based InBev, the world’s largest volume brewer, aims to see beer sold in thousands more outlets in Great Britain, such as McDonalds, Starbucks, cinemas, gas stations and video rental shops. Steve Cahillane, head of InBev i ...
