Anheuser-Busch’s #makeitplatinum call-to-action goes viral on Twitter
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Now trending worldwide (or at least in the U.S.?) is #makeitplatinum – gotta hand it to AB #brandbowl
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about 3 hours agoMatthew Tully: The dawn of a new day in Downtown Indy before Super…
Plenty of reporters in the past week have covered the glitz and swank of the Super Bowl's nighttime scene -- the Playboy and ESPN bashes, for instance, and the celebrity parties and club-hopping. But since the only reason I'm ever awake at 1 a.m. is to cuddle my sleep-averse infant son, I decided to cover the other end of the day: the dawn.
Pendle beer festival hailed a record breaker
ORGANISERS of the eighth Pendle Beer Festival are raising a toast to the thousands of real ale drinkers who made it the best yet.
Three Samuel Adams Small Batch beers approved for 12 oz. bottles
(Boston, MA) – Three beers in Boston Beer Co.‘s Samuel Adams Small Batch series received label approval this past week: Samuel Adams Tasman Red IPA, Dark Depths Baltic IPA and Third Voyage IPA. Nothing has been confirmed though, at first glance, it wouldn’t be surprising to see these land in some kind of Small Batch Series IPA mixed pack.
SF’s Dogpatch pier district braces for renewal
There's a hidden corner of the City by the Bay where rusted cranes used to build WWII battleships loom over dilapidated artist studios, where working-class fishermen bob up against first-class ocean liners docked for repair.
Beer is booming business in Grand Traverse area
ADVANCE FOR MONDAY, FEB. 6- In a photo from Jan. 26, 2012, Kaleb Longworth, assistant brewer/distiller, uses a saccharometer to check the percentage of sugar in wort at the Northern United Brewing Company on Old Mission Peninsula in Traverse City, Mich.
Beer is booming business in Grand Traverse area
His family poured almost $500,000 into the old railroad depot off Eighth Street in Traverse City, and in February he'll open the Filling Station Microbrewery.
Bell’s Black Note Stout bottles quietly come and go
(Kalamazoo, MI) – Though Bell’s Black Note Stout bottles went on sale Friday, the information didn’t circulate online until Saturday. [ed. note: did they explicitly ask people to keep hush hush about it?] Actually, The Beer is Good blog broke the news.
Beer Advocate members started nearly 100 threads in the trading forums since Friday, most of them “in search of” the beer.
Only 1,081 bottles were produced according to the label. Buyers were limited to two bottles per person at $23 a bottle per field reports.
As of Sunday afternoon, it is unclear as to whether the bottles are sold out yet.
UPDATE: This was posted at 1pm on Sunday…
Brewing Beer While the Sky is Falling
A new brewery is on the scene in Eugene. Falling Sky Brewing opened quietly in late January.
Two glasses of wine or beer a day ‘doubles the risk’ of mouth cancer
Warning: A new advertising campaign will warn that drinking two large glasses of wine a day triples the risk of mouth cancer Drinking two large glasses of wine or two strong pints of beer a day triples the risk of developing mouth cancer, according to a new Government campaign.
