Beer News Sampler

7-Eleven rolls out Game Day, a store-brand beer
They tried it with wine, can they have the same success with beer? Will cost-consciousness win out over mega brand loyalty?

Sabmiller volumes beat forecasts
Recovery in Africa and Latin America boosts sales 2%.

Student Invents Beer Ice Cream
Yes!

City employees busted for taking beer from dump
So a distributor dumps a bunch of expired beer in a Columbia, Missouri landfill and a couple of workers liberate some of it but get arrested because it’s “city property”? WTF?

Super-High-Alcohol Beer Heads to the U.S.
Tactical Nuclear Penguin, the 32% ABV beer from Scotland’s BrewDog, is headed for the States.

Carlsberg drivers strike over ‘lunchtime beer’ cut
Danish drivers caused a beer shortage when they struck when their lunchtime allotment was reduced from three to one beer at lunch. Meanwhile, I’m over here with my zero bottles a day allotment.

3 thoughts on “Beer News Sampler

  1. In a little ice cream shop in my hometown, a place where they make the ice cream themselves, they make a Belgian Beer ice cream for the local beer and food charity fundraiser every year. Always delicious.
    .-= Jason’s latest: Catching up with myself… =-.

  2. Yeah, a gelato shop in my college town used to rotate in a Killian’s gelato every now and then. It was fantastic. Much better than actual Killian’s.

  3. nicee! Ready for the twist? We used to have Belgian Beer ice floats at AMD. 6 pack of beer with the carrying cases used to be dumped into a HUGE tub of vanilla ice cream…truly unbelievablee

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