Date: 07/14/2008 06:01 PM
By CHRISTOPHER LEONARD and EMILY FREDRIX
AP Business Writers
ST. LOUIS (AP) – The King of Beers, the folks who spent lavishly to bring you the Bud Bowl, the Talking Frogs, the Whassup Guys and the Clydesdales, is being swallo…
I’m not sure who got pampered more at Left Hand Brewery yesterday, the humans or the dogs. The folks at the Longmont Humane Society and the brewery teamed up for their second of three dog washes at the shipping docks of Left Hand Brewery. We t…
Our travels through Wisconsin allowed us to update our photo of the “World’s Largest Six Pack” i LaCrosse.
We’ve got a little collection of the “world’s largest . . .” going on this trip. We’ve seen the…
Date: 07/14/2008 03:10 PM
By The Associated Press
A glance at the new Anheuser-Busch InBev, the world’s largest brewer that is being formed by the Belgian company’s $52 billion takeover of U.S.-based Anheuser:
Combining the two will create…
Nothing much about this post, just that I still think it’s pretty awesome that I can skip the bar (where good beer is $4.75 a pint) and come home to a great homebrewed beer. This is my Cream Ale. Very refreshing on a hot summers day.
Mere hours after the agreement for InBev to acquire Anhueser-Busch was announced, the St. Louis Post-Dispatch has a lengthy article detailing InBev’s plans for A-B.
InBev will, of course, go forward with A-B’s own “Blue Ocean”…
I told myself that I wouldn’t write about the InBev buyout of A-B but I just had to post these cool facts when the merger and buyouts are complete with A-B and SABMillerCoors.The largest American brewer in Missouri will be Boulevard.The largest Ameri…
June 21, 2008State: Hungry, watching a movie.Ah the Alamo Drafthouse [www.drafthouse.com] . Is there anything better than drinking craft beer while watching a movie? I don’t know if I’ll EVER go to a different theater in the city. For one, NO ONE und…
June 15, 2008State: ChillinThe wife picked up a pretty cool Belgian Dark Ale, Brother Thelonious for Northcoast. The label ALONE is reason enough to buy a case of this stuff. That has got to be the best beer label I’ve EVER seen, our boy Thelonious Mo…
According to a Danish newspaper article, from Børsen I believe, Carlsberg is unable to establish itself as a brand in Laos. This is despite the fact that Carlsberg owns half of Lao Brewery. (The other half being owned by the Laotian government.)
The…