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Walmart making more room for craft beer

Walmart making more room for craft beer

According to Advertising Age, the world’s largest retailer is jumping on the craft beer bandwagon and adding more space in its stores for craft brews.

Pretty Start Up

I want to open a brewery someday. So I love it when I see success stories about small breweries making it against the odds. Pretty Little Things Beer ans Ale was featured in an article at boston.com. “We called it a ‘project’ so we could close it down if we had to,’’ said Paquette, who [...]

Bloomberg The Mentor: Jim Koch Guides Oceanside Ale Works

Bloomberg The Mentor: Jim Koch Guides Oceanside Ale Works

I had to add a cable box to upgrade to digital cable. A cable box…are we going back in time circa 1980? Well with all my frustration I was glad to see new channels. One is Bloomberg, I know your thinking who watches Bloomberg? Well they have some great business shows and one that is [...]

You Arrogant Bastard!

You Arrogant Bastard!

Greg Koch of Stone Brewing Co, known for it’s Arrogant Bastard strong ale, started his Total Tap Tower Takeover Tour 2010. At Birch and Barley in Washington D.C. Stone Brewing dispensed 40 different beers. As cool as that sounds I found the most interesting comment was how they use the web and social media to [...]

Samuel Adams rewards bars and restaurants with “Perfect Pour” certification

Samuel Adams rewards bars and restaurants with “Perfect Pour” certification

Even the best beer can be ruined by improperly maintained draft systems, bad pours, and improper glassware. This can leave a customer with a bad impression of a good beer and it is completely beyond the brewery’s control. Samuel Adams, arguably the most successful brand in the craft beer industry, has announced a new program aimed at [...]

Beer Stimulus: Small breweries can help the economy

Beer Stimulus: Small breweries can help the economy

The biggest expense for breweries, large and small, is often excise taxes. Brewers must pay a tax on every barrel of beer they create, whether that beer is sold or not. This is particularly hard on small breweries which often have very small profit margins. The Brewers Association has been working for some time to [...]

North Carolina Hops For A Future

Hops are what gives beer it’s unique taste, bitterness and aroma. Researchers at N.C. State University are trying to see if Hops are a viable crop to grow. Hoping to build on the craft-brewing and local food movements, N.C. State University researchers in Raleigh and a handful of farmers in the mountains are growing experimental [...]

Boston Beer Company Stocks For A Penny

Great story from The Boston Globe on how Jim Koch of Boston Beer Company handled the one day drop of stock price from $60 to almost 1 cent. Had he known what was happening, Koch said he might have bought more shares in his company, which is known for its Samuel Adams beer brand. “You [...]

Anchor Brewing Co. Sold

Anchor Brewing Co. Sold

The beer company that help start the modern microbrewery has been sold, and did you know it was owned by Fritz Maytag, heir to the washing machine fortune, since 1965. Anchor Brewing Co., the San Francisco beer company that helped spark the modern microbrewery movement, has been sold to two Bay Area entrepreneurs who are [...]

The Art Of Beer

The Art Of Beer

As a graphic designer I have always be fascinated with labels especially Beer and Wine labels. I was very interested when I ran across this article at DallasNews.com Halbert, who lives in Fenton, Mo., has made a career out of illustrating beer labels. His work appears on packaging from Anheuser-Busch InBev, MillerCoors and Samuel Adams, [...]

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