The beer industry is often described as immune to economic downturns. After all, when people get laid off, they want to nurse their sorrows with a col...
Natasha Chen | Posted 11.18.2008 | Home
Political expression became the new spice in pumpkin pie this year at the annual Half Moon Bay Art and Pumpkin Festival. The annual weekend event draw...
Sophie Brickman | Posted 11.06.2008 | Style
Now almost done with the first level of culinary school, I found myself on the plane to Austin equally excited about the music festival I was going to as about the food.
Huffington Post | Johanna Smith | Posted 10.26.2008 | Green
Bacteria gets a bad rap. Sure, certain harmful strains such as E. coli and staph occasionally reek havoc in our food chain and hospitals, but overall ...
Treehugger | Warren McLaren | Posted 10.18.2008 | Green
What better way to reach Aussies with a message about climate change than through one of their favourite things:- Beer? Coopers Brewery have been runn...
Chris Weigant | Posted 09.22.2008 | Politics
John McCain said something ridiculous to a reporter yesterday. I hasten to point out that the previous sentence should have been a major media headlin...
Chris Weigant | Posted 09.18.2008 | Politics
There was a news item today about a group of college presidents who have signed on to an effort to "rethink" the drinking age in America. While not e...
AP | Posted 09.18.2008 | Home
AMES, Iowa — A sidewalk project means there may be a little bounce to the beer kegs instead of dings in the pavement when delivery trucks unload...
Chris Weigant | Posted 09.08.2008 | Politics
I have to assume if you're reading this that you're sick of the Olympics already. Wow, that was fast. Is NBC's coverage going to be twice as bad as ...
Fortune | Beth Kowitt | Posted 09.08.2008 | Business
NEW YORK (Fortune) -- The pending acquisition of Anheuser-Busch (BUD, Fortune 500) has left some Americans crying in their beer over the loss of iconi...
CleanTechnica | Ariel Schwartz | Posted 08.09.2008 | Green
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...
Josie Garthwaite | Posted 08.08.2008 | Green
Four years' worth of college textbooks use the paper equivalent of yields from at least six 40-foot trees.
Reuters | Posted 07.24.2008 | Business
SYDNEY - An Australian man convicted of his seventh drink-driving charge was spending about A$1,000 ($972) a week on beer -- enough to buy more than 2...
CNNMoney.com | Douglas Quenqua | Posted 07.09.2008 | Business
(Fortune Small Business) -- On Sundays, Jeanne McEvoy sits in the office of her Loveland, Colo., liquor store and turns away customers. She would, na...
My Green Element | Stefan Deeran | Posted 07.03.2008 | Green
According to Environmental Leader, next year, Sapporo, a Japanese beer company, will start labeling its beer bottles with the amount of carbon emissio...
M.S. Bellows, Jr. | Posted 04.29.2008 | Home
Down here in Lynchburg, we've been following the Whiskeygate story with interest, and we're just puzzled as to why Sen. Clinton is drinking a Canadian brand instead of a good American whiskey.
John Tepper Marlin | Posted 04.15.2008 | Politics
The problem with a beer survey on presidential candidates is that Clinton doesn't drink much beer and the other two principal presidential candidates drink hardly any alcohol at all.
AP | Posted 03.28.2008 | Business
The makers of Coors and Miller plan to combine their U.S. brewing operations in an effort to compete better against industry-leader Anheuser-Busch. T...
New York Times | DAN BILEFSKY | Posted 03.28.2008 | Home
Britons and the Irish can still down a pint of beer, walk a mile, covet an ounce of gold and eat a pound of bananas after the European Union ruled tod...
US News and World Report | Kimberly Palmer | Posted 12.19.2008 | Business