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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.

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A small sampling of beer-related news that recently caught our eye.

Anheuser-Busch InBev shipping water to Haiti
ABIB is shipping 600,000 cans of water to aid in Haiti. They’ll also be matching donations to the American Red Cross and have shipped over 5 millions cans of drinking water to victims of natural disasters in the last two years.

Workers’ strike against Anheuser-Busch InBev affecting supplies in Belgium
Inventories of Stella Artois and Leffe are just about depleted.

Another reason to drink beer
Xanthohumol, found in hops, shows promise in fighting cancer.

Beoir
A new beer consumer’s group for Ireland.

Trying to remove the ban on mixed beer drinks in Nebraska
Regulators say they just want to remove an archaic and unnecessary law. Opponents say they’re trying to open the door for alcopops.

Give a pint, get a pint
Cascade Regional Blood Services (based in Tacoma, Washington) says that their promotion of giving a pint of beer when you donate a pint of blood worked so well that they’re going to expand it.

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Baltika eyes Heineken’s No.1 spot in European beer
Baltika, Russia’s largest brewer, wants to dislodge Heineken from the top of the European beer market, despite a recent slowdown in the Russian domestic market.

Biofuel boom sparks beer price fight
As German barley farmers abandon their usual crops in favor of subsidized biofuel crops, like corn (maize), brewers scramble to keep costs in line to prevent alienating their consumers.

Brewery workers walk off job
More than 100 workers of the Canadian Autoworkers Union walked off the job early at Edmonton’s Molson Coors brewery the morning of May 30. While the company says it has plenty of supply, union leaders think beer drinkers in Western Canada may have a bit of a time of it this summer.

Quick Tip: Leftover Beer
Not that this would ever happen to any of us, but leftover beer can be used to give some extra nutrients to your plants.

Teamsters brewing boycott of Yuengling beer
A typical “he said, he said” scenario. Yuengling workers vote to leave the union. Teamsters strike. Marketplace yawns. The Teamsters claim management threatened to shut down the company and want lawmakers to intervene. The company says that workers decided to decertify on their own.

Anheuser-Busch Brewing Drinking Water
A-B is canning potable water to have available in the event of a major hurricane or other large disaster.