Archive for the ‘Beer’ Category

More on Budweiser and InBev

Tuesday, July 15th, 2008

Drinkplanner weighs in on the Budweiser vs. the big, bad foreign company kerfuffle. As usual, they do it in a most amusing and insightful way. Here are some choice excerpts.
And to those panicking about lost American jobs and whatnot…calm the hell down.  Anheuser-Busch is THE #1 producer of beer in the states, and they’re not [...]

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Budweiser is bought by company that brews Stella Artois

Monday, July 14th, 2008

The idiots who drink that watered down swill with the detergent finish seem to be losing their minds over the deal. It boggles my mind that people could be so passionate about something so awful, as this CNN article describes.
Philip McClary was grilling out at his home in suburban St. Louis, Missouri, on Sunday night [...]

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Eric Asimov Rips the American Beer Industry

Tuesday, July 8th, 2008

The New York Times wine columnist rightfully and righteously takes down the mass-producing wing of the American beer industry.
This paragraph drew my first of many “amens.”
Yet, the big beer companies apparently find it repulsive that people could conceive of beer as an adult beverage full of wonder and complexities. So they do their best to [...]

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New Belgium Springboard Ale

Thursday, July 3rd, 2008

New Belgium’s Web site has some babble about this beer springing forth from dreams about acupuncturists and barrels, or some such nonsense. What a shame that is, as this is a exceptionally tasty hot weather beer, and that is a really stupid way to describe it unless their target is new age acupuncturist beer snobs.
Springboard [...]

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