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Pabst Blue Ribbon, which for the last decade has enjoyed a tremendous surge in popularity, has been sold to investor C. Dean Metropoulos, a Connecticut  tycoon known for reinvigorating food brands. Metropoulos closed the deal to buy Pabst Brewing Co. in late June for an undisclosed sum from Kalmanovitz Charitable... Read More

The Brewers Association has released its 2O1O Beer Style Guidelines. Updated annually, the guidelines currently describe 14O styles of beer. For 2O1O, American-style Imperial Porter, American-Style India Black Ale, Belgian-Style Quadrupel, and Fruit Wheat Ale or Lager categories were added and defined, reflecting the emergence of these styles as popularly... Read More

These are happy days for Bud Light. In one of the largest-ever league sponsorship deals, Bud Light will be the official beer of the NFL starting in 2O11. The deal is reportedly worth $1.2 billion over six years. Bud Light will replace Coors Light, which is brewed by rival MillerCoors,... Read More

Perhaps breaking up isn’t so hard to do after all. Foster’s recently announced plans to spin off its successful brewing unit from its struggling wine operations in a structural overhaul that is expected to spur takeover interest from international brewers. Foster’s said the separation of beer and wine operations would... Read More

Hard to believe but Sam Adams Boston Lager hit the big “two-five” on Patriot’s Day. What started out at a two-man operation brewing out of founder Jim Koch’s kitchen in 1985 has blossomed into a multi-million dollar international organization with three breweries and nearly 8OO employees. Three months after its... Read More

This sale came as a surprise to many. Fritz Maytag, the washing machine heir who launched the microbrewery movement, has sold Anchor Brewing Company  in San Francisco to a pair of Bay Area entrepreneurs, Keith Greggor and Tony Foglio, who plan to preserve and expand the iconic brand. In 45... Read More

There aren’t many jobs where you can actually drink beer while you work. But at the Carlsberg brewery in Denmark, imbibing beer on the job was a long-standing benefit . . . until now. New rules imposed by the brewer limit beer drinking to the canteen during lunch break. The... Read More

Everybody loves the Budweiser Clydesdales. For decades the iconic horses have appeared in parades, at events festivals, sports events, even air shows. Part of what made them so appealing to organizer was the brewery’s long-standing practice of absorbing nearly all of the cost of showcasing the horses . . .... Read More

Craft beer is unstoppable. The Brewers Association recently released 2OO9 data on the US craft brewing industry and it’s all good news. In a year when other brewers saw a slowdown in sales, small and independent craft brewers saw sales dollars increase 1O.3 percent and volume increase 7.2 percent over... Read More

And the beer market gets tighter and tighter – the world’s four biggest brewers now account for over half the global market for beer after recent deals such as Heineken’s takeover of Mexico’s FEMSA, beer market researcher Plato Logic recently reported. Belgium-based Anheuser-Busch InBev, London-listed SABMiller , Heineken, and Denmark’s... Read More