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| Big Tip On Beer Bill With the spirit of the holiday season, where it is hoped we show a little more love and kindness: A customer at a Cleveland restaurant recently left a $3,000 tip on a beer tab of $7.02. The anonymous tipper did so to help the staff during the pandemic. According to the owner of the eatery, Nighttown, Brendan Ring. The man told him that he wished him well and told him to share the tip with the four employees who were working. Ring said “I ran after him and he said no mistake we will see you when you reopen!”The restaurant is voluntarily closing for a few months due to the COVID-19 pandemic. In a similar vein, a Toronto bar owner's venue might stay afloat because her beer customers came to rescue by buying almost her entire beer stock and allowing her to survive closing due to COVID-19. Owner Abra Shiner asked her community for help via Facebook, "I wasn’t sure if I was going to be able to pay rent she said People to come buy the beer we had in our stock room ... and it worked. The post went viral. We sold 90 cases in two days. ” . |
| Happy Anniversary Heavy Seas Beer proudly announces the release of 25, a double barrel aged strong ale brewed in celebration of their 25th anniversary. First aged in bourbon barrels and then finished in rye, 25 comes in at a whopping 15.5% ABV. 25 will be available in stores in 16oz four-pack cans starting in early Jnauary 2021 Heavy Seas Beer was founded by Hugh Sisson in 1995, and has grown to become one of the most respected and award-winning craft breweries all along the east coast. Budweiser Courtside Thrones The Atlanta Hawks have been named Anheuser- Busch InBev’s “NBA Partner of the Year,”The Hawks transformed two courtside seats into fur- covered Budweiser thrones, giving the seat holders buckets of Bud beers emblazoned with the likeness the Bud and Hawks logos for all 34 regular season home games. The seats, which can’t be purchased, will be awarded to random fans or rappers, musicians, athletes and influencers, |
Jan. 2021
| Counterfeit If Spain's La Guardia Civil and the country's Tax Agency appear to be celebrating this week, it might not have anything to do with the holidays. According to Food Safety News, the two agencies recently busted a multi-national criminal network that had been producing and distributing counterfeit whisky. After the dust settled and the paperwork was completed, 14 people between the ages of 37 and 52 had been arrested. The bogus bottles were estimated to be worth more than €800,000 ($970,000) and the damage to the legitimate whiskey brand—which has yet to be identified—could've been as much as €4 million ($4.8 million). Note please they were afraid to counterfeit craft beer. They just couldn’t make it taste as good. Beer Goes National Hop Valley Brewing and its flagship Bubble Stash IPA are poised for a North American distribution and marketing expansion next year, the brewery’s corporate parent Molson Coors said..According to Molson Coors’ beer blog Beer & Beyond, Hop Valley’s significant growth – 21% in 2020 – has positioned it to compete nationally. The brewery has surged even during the pandemic on the strength of its chain distribution, which accounts for 80% of its sales. Bubble Stash, part of the hop-forward brewery’s Stash series collection of IPAs, this year has seen 40% growth in the Pacific Northwest region, which includes Oregon, Washington and Idaho. The brewery’s beers are also distributed in California and Vermont. Hop Valley, founded in 2009, was purchased in 2016 by megabrewery MillerCoors, which is now Molson Coors, and is part of the corporation’s Tenth & Blake division. Hero Saves Beer A woman in Australia is being dubbed a "hero" after wading out into rough surf to rescue two kegs that were carried out to sea amid a recent bout of extreme weather off the coast of Queensland— even while another employee described the chaotic scene as "so dangerous." Footage of the woman’s actions was first broadcast on Australia’s 7 News, where she could be seen trying to retrieve the kegs while waves crashed in front of the Currumbin Beach Vikings Surf Club in Currumbin, on the Gold Coast. The footage is also on youtube.com. The woman eventually grabs hold of both kegs, the footage shows. "It’s just so dangerous," said an employee of the surf club. He also noted that "a lot of rubbish, a lot of fences" were also swept up in the surf. The club’s entire parking lot, too, was seen covered by the rushing tides. The woman’s actions, meanwhile, were also applauded on Twitter, where beer fans quickly dubbed her "wife material" and expressed admiration for her dedication. One outlet even praised her by writing, "Not all heroes wear capes — sometimes they carry beer kegs." |
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