Category Archives: beer

Penna. Bill Would End Liquor License Fee for Fire Companies, Vet Groups

The Pennsylvania Liquor Control Board charges all applicants a $700 a year fee for their liquor licenses.  The bill abolishing the

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When Is Past Behavior Relevant?

That’s the question raised by the disclosure that the Des Moines Register dredged up a couple of racist tweets by Carson King.

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Glassmakers File Dumping Charges Against China

The American Glass Packaging Coalition (AGPC), a coalition of producers of food and beverage glass packaging

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MillerCoors to Launch 4 Beers Next Year

Blue Moon, which MillerCoors calls “the top-selling craft beer in the U.S,” will release a new brand called Blue Moon LightSky, a 95-calorie light citrus wheat beer brewed with real tangerine peel and dry hopped with Azacca hops.

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What We’re Reading —

Craft Brewers Have a Dark Secret—They Drink Light Beer After spending days creating complex beers, some brewers like to turn to something easier.  (The Wall Street Journal)

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Appeals Panel Skeptical in Corn Syrup Case

MillerCoors was able to get a judge in Milwaukee, Miller\s home town, to order Anheuser-Busch to cease running its corn syrup commercials and to cease using “contains no corn syrup”

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