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- Share Highland Brewing Celebrates Ten Years
- In North Carolina, Asheville’s Highland Brewing Co. is celebrating a ten-year milestone. Highland Brewing was formed by retired engineer Oscar Wong and his then-partner John McDermott, who announced plans for the city’s first modern-day brewery in February 1994, with the first barrels ...
- Share Unintended alcoholic punch
- Japanese officials have discovered that an occasional bottle of “non-alcoholic” Buckler beer may have contained more punch than advertised. Heineken Japan and Kirin Brewery, who produce the beer that is supposed to have less than 0.5% alcohol by volume, have recalled more than 1 million ...
- Share Brewer Can8217t Make Health Caims
- An English advertising watchdog has criticized Coors for making claims about health benefits in a four-page magazine insert promoting its Carling lager. The advertising repeats the oft-made assertions that beer in moderation protects against heart disease, reduces blood pressure and is a good sourc ...
- Share Sleeman acquires Unibroue
- Sleeman Breweries is buying Quebec microbrewery Unibroue for about $31 million Canadian. Unibroue exports a wide range of Belgian-influenced beers to most part of the United States, including Blanche de Chambly and La Fin du Monde. “The acquisition of Unibroue and its premium rands will compl ...
- Share Hawaii Brewpub OffSales a Signature Away
- Hawaii’s state Senate Bill 2606, allowing small brewpubs to sell their customers kegs and half-gallon jugs to go, is awaiting Gov. Linda Lingle’s endorsement. The bill, which passed unopposed, would permit brewpubs to sell beer to customers for off-premises consumption, by eliminating ...
- Share AOB Increases Brewery Representation on Board of Directors
- The Association of Brewers Board of Directors recently filled three At-Large positions, growing the board to 19 members. The AOB announced last week the addition of Steve Bradt, head brewer of Free State Brewing Co. in Lawrence, Kansas, Sam Calagione, brewer and owner of Dogfish Head Craft Brewery ...
- Share Boddington8217s Brewery to close
- Union leaders and members of Britain’s Campaign for Real Ale were quick to protest after plans were announced to close ManchesterMore from https://www.ace-chn.com/Brewing-Equipment/
- Share Weyermann Offers Training Course at New Pilot Plant
- The Weyermann Malting Company recently announced a new Weyermann Practical Brewing Training Program, an international, two-week, hands-on training course in recipe formulation and brew house techniques in the Company’s new, state-of-the-art, 2.5-hectoliter (2.13-bbl) pilot brewery on the grou ...
- Share Bear knocks back stolen beer
- Beer season for bears continues to the north. This time the beer is Moosehead and the bear is Canadian. Police in New Brunswick discovered 200 cans of stolen Moosehead beer at a marijuana growing operation in the forest near Doaktown, N.B. A few of the cans, from a shipment bound for Mexico that wa ...
- Share Church of beer literally
- An English catherdal has revived the ancient monastic tradition of selling beer. Canterbury Cathedral in Kent cathedral offers visitors a bottled bitter made by local brewer Shepherd Neame, produced according to a 300-year-old Kentish recipe. Canon Richard Marsh said beer was made on site by the mo ...
