If you’re splitting a pitcher of beer between pals and you’re all imbibing at a decent enough rate, the beer in said pitcher will stay reasonably fresh. But how about a device that lets you buy a pitcher’s worth of beer, but only pours it out when you want more to drink? The folks at the MGM Grand Detroit think it’s a pretty cool idea. Unfortunately, the state of Michigan seems to think it would violate the state’s ban on alcohol vending machines. [More]
This Beer Promotion Isn't A Good Deal, But At Least It's Honest
By September 19, 2012
Regular photo contributor Ashi sent us this photo, seen in San Diego. It’s a thing of beauty: truth in advertising and the least fuzzy math we’ve ever seen. Or is it the most fuzzy math, because it’s calling your attention to something that isn’t a special price at all? [More]
Where Booze Is Concerned, Americans Choose Beer Over Wine & Liquor
By August 20, 2012
When faced with a chilled chardonnay, a dry martini or a frosty mug of ale, all Americans who drink have a choice that we are fond of making. A new report from venerable pollsters Gallup found that a majority of us drink alcohol in some form — 66% of Americans, to be exact — but there can be only one boozy winner, and it’s beer. [More]
We Are Apparently In The Midst Of A Canned Beer Renaissance
By June 20, 2012
In my youth, canned beer was king, though there was the one guy on the block whose recycling buckets were always overflowing with empty Rolling Rock bottles. But then came the craft beer revolution of the ’90s and slowly but surely cans gave way to bottles and draft beer. For seven years starting in 2002, bottled and draft beers equaled or outpaced the canned stuff in the U.S., but ever since the economy took a nose dive, a growing number of Americans have been cracking open cold cans for their beer-based refreshment. [More]
Which Baseball Stadiums Have The Priciest Beer?
By April 26, 2012
Detroit may have some of the nation’s least-expensive real estate, but baseball fans in the Motor City are paying the highest prices in the U.S. (and Toronto) when they buy a beer at a Detroit Tigers game. [More]
Researcher Says A Bit Of Beer May Help Creative Problem-Solving
By April 11, 2012
Science usually plays the role of wet blanket when it comes to the topic of how alcohol affects the human body. But a researcher at the University of Illinois at Chicago says that downing a couple brewskis may actually improve one’s creative problem-solving abilities. [More]
The Luck Of The Irish Doesn't Extend To Leading U.S. Beer Sales
By March 16, 2012
It might not matter to the masses which alcohol they’re dumping green dye into tomorrow on their annual celebration of St. Patrick, but it likely won’t be Irish beer anyway. Samuel Adams leads the best-perceived brand in the country, while Guinness comes in far down the line at sixth. Faith and begorrah! [More]
Sunoco To Roll Out More Beer-Filling Stations
By February 27, 2012
Drive-through liquor stores have been around in various parts of the country for some time, but it’s not every day that you pull into a gas station to actually fill up some empty bottles with beer. But that may change as Sunoco looks to roll out its Craft Beer Exchange stations. [More]
Yuengling Is Now America's Largest Brewer
By January 17, 2012
Did Yuengling suddenly get bigger than Miller or Bud? Nope. Both are now foreign-owned. According to AdAge, Yuengling has recently surpassed Sam Adams’ Boston Beer Company as the largest U.S.-owned brewer that manufactures all its beer in the U.S. [More]
Ways In Which Beer Can Be Good For You
By January 17, 2012
While the drawbacks of booze swilling are well-known and extensively chronicled, there are also upsides to drinking beer. No one is calling beer a health drink, but suds apparently aren’t all bad for you. [More]
Higher Calorie, Higher Alcohol 'Bud Light Platinum' To Start Getting People Drunk In January
By November 10, 2011
For those who think their light beer doesn’t have enough calories — or enough alcohol — the folks at Anheuser-Busch InBev think they have the solution: Bud Light Platinum, which only has 8 fewer calories per serving than Budweiser, but is a full percentage point higher on the alcohol by volume scale. [More]
Small NFL Beers Cost More Than $7 On Average
By October 17, 2011
Tickets, parking and concessions are all costly at sporting events. Those who haven’t been to an NFL game in a while may experience plastic cup price shock when they order a beer. An analysis revealed that the average small draft beer is $7.13, 22.7 percent more than Major Leauge baseball brewskis. [More]
Watch A Dancing Patrick Swayze Shill For Pabst Blue Ribbon in 1979
By October 5, 2011
It may be difficult to believe now, but there was once a time when people appreciated Pabst Blue Ribbon beer in a non-ironic fashion. That was around 1979, evidently, when this ad featuring a catchy faux-Bee Gees tune and a fresh-faced young Patrick Swayze hit the airwaves. [More]
Utah Movie Theater Fined For Showing Hangover II
By September 30, 2011
There are a number of theaters across the country that like to combine movie-showing with beer-drinking and as long as all the patrons are of legal drinking age, there are usually no issues about what’s being shown on screen. But the state of Utah has decided that if you show a movie featuring naked bodies, that makes your business answerable to the same rules governing strip clubs — and subject to thousands of dollars in fines. [More]
Budweiser Slaps A Bow Tie On The Can And Hopes You'll Buy More
By August 3, 2011
As Budweiser, the self-dubbed King of Beers, feels competitors chomping away at its spot in suds sales ranks, it has tried a number of things — like giving away 500,000 freebies — to remind people it is a product available for purchase. Today, the folks at Anheuser-Busch InBev N.V. RFD PDQ WTF announced their master stroke that will surely work wonders: A new can. [More]
Minnesota Govt. Shutdown Also Resulting In Beer Shortages
By July 13, 2011
We’re doubling down on news related to the Minnesota government shutdown today. A red tape snafu has could potentially leave all Minnesotans without easy access to Coors Light, Miller, Olde English 800 and dozens of additional beers. Meanwhile, bars across the state are running dry because they can’t buy more booze. [More]
Carlsberg Looking To Attract The Ladies With Beer In A Pretty Bottle
By May 20, 2011
While the soda business is aggressively marketing toward men for the latest generation of diet drinks, the folks at Carlsberg, the brewery where the truck drivers went on strike for not being able to drink on the job, are trying to go after the gals’ cash, luring them toward their new beer in a pretty bottle. [More]
Why Is Coors Light Advertising During This Children's Song?
By May 9, 2011
Reader Jonnie was looking for YouTube videos to help his son remember his multiplication tables. He found one for 8′s, but was taken aback by what he had to watch first before he could watch it. It was an ad for Coors Light beer. That is some pretty dumb media buying right there. [More]
