August 2007

Fighters to Your Corners

by Luke

  Boston Beer Co., brewer of Samuel Adams beers, has been conducting tastings around the country all summer long where consumers can help pick one of the beers that will be sold in the 2008 Brewmaster’s Collection 12-pack. The winning beer will also be sold in six-packs throughout the U.S. This year’s contenders are a [...]

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Silly Beer Laws by State

by Luke

Here are just a few tidbits to make you laugh; for a full listing, click here.  In Fairbanks, AK, it is illegal to serve alcoholic beverages to moose. In Colorado, it is illegal to ride a horse while under the influence…It is also illegal 1) for liquor stores to sell food and 2) for food stores [...]

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Award-winning Brew not to be Bogged Down

by Luke

Cranberries move over, In the UK’s Somerset Country bog water is now being turned into an award winning beer, courtesy of Exmoor’s first microbrewery. Real ale lover Jim Winzer, and his wife Elke, who run the Crosslanes House Hotel in Allerford, have joined forces with Exford farmer Lindley Williams to produce and market their new Dunkery Ale, using water [...]

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Do Caffinated “Beers” Violate Federal Law? AGs seem to think so…

by Luke

Attorneys general from Maine and more than two dozen other states asked federal regulators Monday to launch a probe into the advertising techniques of companies marketing caffinated beer-hybrids with slogans such as “You can sleep when you’re 30,” saying they are targeting underage drinkers. A letter written by the attorneys general to the federal Alcohol and Tobacco Tax [...]

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Pumpkinhead Wins!

by Luke

One of our favorite Maine Brews proved a winner this weekend. Shipyard Brewing Company’s Pumpkinhead Ale won 1st place in the Specialty Beer Category at the 13th annual California Brewers Festival in Sacramento, California. Shipyard’s Chamberlain Pale Ale also received 2nd place in the English Pale Ales category. Sea Dog Brewing Company (which is owned [...]

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Heineken Enhances its Partnership with the U.S. Open Through Upgraded Fan Program

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