Postmaster General wants to lift ban on alcohol delivery
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Since FedEx and UPS have been doing it forever, this kind of seems like a no-brainer. Donahoe said delivering alcohol has the potential to raise as much as $50 million a year. He mentioned how customers might want to...
Bud Light is even more popular than you might think.
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Holy crap: that's a lot of Bud Light. [Bold added for emphasis:] If you add up every case of imported beer, craft beer, hard cider, and flavored malt beverages sold in 2013, you get 270,194,987. Bud Light sold 294,7...
New documentary series on San Diego beer from PBS
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It's called "Kings of the Craft". Check out the trailer above. Debuts this Thursday, May 21st at 9pm on PBS stations and will be streaming online the following day.
Interview with Wayne Wambles of Cigar City
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Food GPS has a great interview with one of the folks behind one of my favorite southern breweries, Cigar City. Of particular interest is his viewpoint on canning: There was quite a bit of contention from our consumer...
Germany beer market is down in the dumps
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When you think of the German beer market, words like "decline" , "slump", or "collapse" would probably seem bizarre. But Reuters published an interesting piece about this ongoing long-term phenomenon and it's a much ...
Beer on a Budget
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Serious Eats has yet another great "Ask a Cicerone" feature, this time on how to find the best brew for your buck. There's some fairly obvious familiar brands that keep coming up like Sam Adams and Sierra Nevada, b...
Learning about Sours
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I enjoy a lot of the sours I've had--one of my go-to hot weather beers is Westbrook Gose, even. But I still don't know terribly much about how they're made. I came across an interesting article with some good info. ...
Cheers, Star Wars fans!
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You knew it was coming... The marketing is strong with this one. Wit’s End has already begun their celebration, previewing one of their Star Wars themed beers from Tuesday to Thursday, leading up to the movie rele...
Cool New Beer Apps
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Check out this announcement of a few new beer apps for mobile devices. Of particular interest is this: Beer Hunt adds a competitive dimension to drinking craft beer. The app enables users to “check in” for every bee...
New Belgium is (maybe?) looking for a buyer
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Reuters gave us the not-so-secret over the weekend. Employee-owned New Belgium Brewing Company, which owns craft beer brand Fat Tire, is looking for a buyer that could the value the U.S. company at more than $1 billi...