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trademarks
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mergers and acquisitions
All The PBR You Want For $300 Million
Pabst Brewing Company is up for sale, the New York Post reports. More » -
recession watch
Has The Recession Forced You To Swap Stoli For Swill?
The old adage about booze being recession-proof may have some truth to it: alcohol sales are up 2% over the past year. Not surprisingly, the cheap stuff is leading the way, with sales of private-label wine — no, that's not the stuff you brew in your backyard — up 20%. And more people are shunning bars and restaurants, opting instead for the comfort of a brown paper bag and the neighborhood stoop. More » -
trademarks
Brewery Owner Stares Down, Whups Monster In His Closet
Score a victory for the little guy. Matt Nadeau, the owner of the Rock Art Vermont brewery, which was slapped with a lawsuit by the sue-happy makers of the Monster energy drink for brewing a beer called "Vermonster," has gotten the bullies to step off. More » -
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lawsuits
Man Sues Coors Over Invalid Contest Codes
An Illinois man has filed a class-action lawsuit against MillerCoors because the "Silver Ticket Sweepstakes" code on the case of beer he recently bought turned out to be invalid. The man says he tried entering the code online and over the phone, but it was rejected each time—not because it wasn't a winning code, but because it wasn't a legitimate sweepstakes entry code to begin with. More » -
pbr
PBR Sales, Prices, Up
With sales and prices up, the only redeeming quality left for PBR is if you perversely enjoy drinking a beer with zero finish. Please, nobody tell the tiny pants set that Miller High Life is 50 cents cheaper and tastes two dollars better. [NBCChicago] (Photo: Ingorrr) -
drinkers rights
How To Measure Your Missing Beer
Draft beer lovers, we've got some good news and bad news. The good news: A new tool allows you to see how much beer you're missing when a bartender doesn't fill up your pint glass all the way. The bad news: You have to be a douchebag in order to use it. More » -
blame it on the a-a-a-a-a-alcohol
Study Finds Booze Sellers Are Using Cable To Ply Teens
Alcohol ads pop up on cable programming that's popular with teeagers at a suspicious rate, a study by the Center on Alcohol Marketing and Youth and UCLA found. More » -
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beer
Not So "Drinkable?" Sales Of Bud Light Are Dropping For The First Time Ever
Sales of Bud Light are down, probably because of the recession, but we hope it's because of the aggressively annoying "Drinkability" campaign. In any case, AB has decided to roll out more than 15 new "Drinkability" commercials in the coming weeks, according to the Wall Street Journal. More » -
silly laws
Crazy Pennsylvania Beer Law Bars Convenience Stores From Selling Beer Six-Packs
Poor Pennsylvanian beer-lovers — not only is there a bizarre, ancient law on the books that prevents convenience stores from selling six-packs, but the state supreme court has gone and upheld it. More » -
shelf tags
Jewel-Osco Grocery Stores Implement Price Cuts ...I Think
Jewel-Osco, a Chicago-area grocery chain, implemented some much-publicized price cuts a few weeks ago. Let's see how they're doing with that. More » -
beer
Anybody Wanna Buy Rolling Rock? Again?
Three years ago, the Belgian brewing company that just acquired Anheuser-Busch, InBev, sold Rolling Rock to AB. Now they've got it back again... and want to sell it. Anyone looking for a beer brand? More » -
taxes
This Grocery Store Truly Understands Tax Season
Reader Kevin took this photo at a Fred Meyer store in Seattle. It seems like they understand tax season pretty well. -
recession
Alcohol Sales Plummet
What's up, beer drinkers of America? Bloomberg notes that "take-out sales of alcoholic beverages tumbled 9.3 percent in the fourth quarter, the steepest drop since the U.S. Commerce Department started compiling data half a century ago," and a drop four times greater than the overall fall in consumer spending. Most of that was due to the 14 percent drop in beer sales. More » -
grocery shrink ray
Cascade Beer Drinkers Defeat Grocery Shrink Ray
When Fosters-owned Cascade beer (different from regular Fosters in that it tastes decent) switched to 330ml from 375ml while charging the same price, consumers let their discontent be known in a highly visible fashion: they stopped buying it. Fosters reported a 33% drop in sales and some retailers reported up to a 50% drop. In response to the steep drop-off, Fosters is going back to 375ml, the standard size for canned beers in Australia.
Foster's cans 330ml stubbies [smh.com.au] (Thanks to Kevin!) (Photo: James Cridland)
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advertising
Miller High Life To Show 1-Second Ads During Superbowl
Blink and you'll miss it. Miller High Life has bought up 1-second slots advertising to air during the Superbowl. The spots feature a boisterous Miller High Life (MHL) truck-loader named Wendel shouting out phrases and doing silly things inside a MHL loading dock. "Happy can," "Cham-pagne of beers," "pigskin gravy," "Frugal bugle," are some of the things says in the preview spots posted on 1secondad.com. More » -
roundups
It's Midnight Somewhere...
It's New Year's Eve, and we have some drinking suggestions for you.
It's the 50th anniversary of the aluminum 
