Beer becomes center of Apple iPhone leak disaster
A prototype of Apple’s next iPhone was left at a German beer garden by Apple employee Gray Powell. Unfortunately for Apple, Gizmodo found it. And now German airline Lufthansa is getting in on the action. In an open letter to Gray Powell, Lufthansa employee Nicola C. Lange writes:
I recently read in the news that you [...]
Cases of expired beer stolen from landfill
According to an AP article:
Two Columbia [Missouri] sanitation workers who apparently couldn’t stand by and let beer go down the drain allegedly took dozens of cases of expired brew from the city landfill. Police and city supervisors are trying to determine if the salvage was a crime — theft of city property [...]
Beer taxes!
Raise your hand if you want to pay more for beer! A tax in Washington State is being considered that would raise the taxes on beer substantially, to 45¢ per 6-pack. Currently the tax is 15¢ per 6-pack.
Fortunately for drinkers of good beer, the tax would only impact breweries brewing more than 15,000 barrels per [...]
Monday Night quoted in the LA Times on beer label art
Yesterday the LA Times ran a story about craft beer label art. But not just any story about craft beer label art. A story in which Monday Night receives a little bit of quote love. What should you do with this information? You have a myriad of decent options:
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Meanwhile, in little ol’ Georgia, big ol’ AB InBev makes a splash
The New York Times recently ran a story about AB InBev’s plans to reduce water usage in beer production… blah blah blah… from 5 liters of water per liter of beer to 3.5 liters of water per liter of beer… blah blah blah… by 2012… blah blah bl–
WHAT. AB InBev has been using the Cartersville [...]
MillerCoors seeks to innovate by looking at what they did 100 years ago
MillerCoors is testing a new beer, dubbed Batch 19, based on a pre-Prohibition recipe found in the archives of Coors in Colorado. The beer will be sold starting in April on draft in select areas, none of which is Atlanta. Chicago, Milwaukee, San Francisco and Washington will be getting Batch 19 first.
Batch 19 is named [...]
Beer growlers are the new black
The New York Times (maybe you’ve heard of it) recently ran an article on the renewed interest in growlers as a means of purchasing beer. This is a concept that might be foreign to many Georgians, so let me break it down. A growler is a refillable 64-oz glass jug that you can take to [...]
