Beer Industry

Rockies Tapped? Molsen Coors Profits Tumble

AP | SARAH SKIDMORE | Posted 01.02.2012

PORTLAND, Ore. — Molson Coors Brewing Co.'s third-quarter profit tumbled 23 percent as high costs and high unemployment among its core customers...

PHOTOS: 30 Years Of Great Beer At GABF

The Huffington Post | By Matt Ferner | Posted 11.28.2011

It has been 30 years since Charlie Papazian founded the first craft beer-centered Great American Beer Festival (GABF) and beer lovers’ taste buds ha...

How to Taste Your Beer

Hanna Laney | Posted 11.21.2011

Hanna Laney

Some argue that the taxonomy and vocabulary used in modern beer tasting is deeply in need of reform. If we see craft beer as the handcrafted wonder it is, we should have a meaningful manner by which we measure its quality.

The 8 Beers Americans No Longer Love

24/7 Wall St. | Douglas McIntyre | Posted 11.11.2011

Some of America’s most famous beers have lost a tremendous amount of their national sales over the last five years. Mostly, they are full-calorie be...

The Beer Industry's Mad Inventor: BottomsUp

Amex Open Forum | Darren Dahl | Posted 05.25.2011

Josh Springer doesn't have much free time these days. He starts his workdays at 5:00 a.m. and he usually doesn't stop working until 11:00 p.m. Like ma...

10 Industries In Which The U.S. Is No Longer No.1

24/7 Wall St. | Posted 05.25.2011

Americans are used to being No.1 in nearly all the world's businesses, and athletic endeavors. The foundation of that certainly began to erode in the ...

Ryan Grim

This Bud's Not For You: Beer Industry Battling California Pot Initiative

HuffingtonPost.com | Ryan Grim | Posted 05.25.2011

The California Beer & Beverage Distributors is spending money in the state to oppose a marijuana legalization proposition on the ballot in November, a...

The 9 Countries With The Worst Beer In The World (PHOTOS)

Doug Lansky | Posted 05.25.2011

Doug Lansky

As they say, "America is #1." Unfortunately in this case, we're the #1 producers of crap beer.

Sink the Bismarck!: Brewery Releases World's Strongest Beer At 41% ABV

Huffington Post | Colin Sterling | Posted 05.25.2011

The flamboyantly competitive Scottish brewery BrewDog has released Sink the Bismarck!, a "quadruple IPA" that they say is the most alcoholic in the wo...

Five Boozey Steps to a Green Drinking Binge

Mairi Beautyman | Posted 05.25.2011

Mairi Beautyman

Green is the buzz word, and there's no exception to this rule in the alcohol industry, where breweries and distilleries all around the world are worki...

Anheuser-Busch's Gradual Greening: "5 Billion Green Beers"

CleanTechnica | Ariel Schwartz | Posted 05.25.2011

Anheuser-Busch, the largest brewer in the US, announced today that its breweries will rely on renewable energies for 15 percent of their needs by 2010...

Anheusers "Staggering" Defense

The New York Times | Steven M. Davidoff | Posted 05.25.2011

InBev on Thursday filed suit in Delaware Chancery Court against its resisting target, Anheuser-Busch. The Brazilian-Belgian brewer is seeking a judici...

Flavored Craft Beers Grow In Popularity

USA Today Via ABC News | Theresa Howard | Posted 05.25.2011

It may seem heresy to purists, but flavored beers are going mainstream as brewers reach for sales growth. The $90 billion beer industry only recently...