| Send Busch Beer Or Cash What started out as a football fan's ploy to grab the attention of the cameras at ESPN's College GameDay has turned into something much bigger, better and greener: a donation of thousands of dollars to a children's hospital. Carson King, 24, arrived at the College GameDay stages in Ames, Iowa, for the University of Iowa -Iowa State University football game last weekend. With him, he had a sign that said. "Busch Light supply needs replenished," with his Venmo address. He had a prime position right behind show commentator Kirk Herbstreit for much of the program, and King and his sign received plenty of airtime. Afterward his phone blew up with texts. King received $400 within an hour. When his Venmo account reached $600 in beer money donations, King decided that after he deducted the price of one case of Busch Light for himself, he would donate the rest of the donations to the University of Iowa Stead Family Children's Hospital. , Busch Beer saw his tweet and decided to join in the cause and match the donations. To date over $200,000 has been donated which Busch not only matched but they threw in a year's supply of beer for King. The popular-in-Iowa beer brand is helping to solidify King's status as an "Iowa legend" by making sure this phrase appears beneath an image of King on every beer can in his year's supply. |
| You don't say..... Off-premise dollar sales of non-alcoholic (NA) beer are up nearly 18 percent this year, reaching close to $78.5 million through the end of Sept. 2019, .--------------------- Look for a first ever, brand-neutral marketing campaign called Beers To That. It’s a collaboration between the craft beer Brewers Association & the, macro Beer Institute, and distributors (National Beer Wholesalers Association)—a trifecta that represents probably 99% of the U.S. beer ------------------ Megadeth founder and frontman Dave Mustaine has launched a low alcohol Belgian saison brewed by Canadian brewery Unibroue. It's named "Saison 13" as an homage to the band’s 2011 song, TH1RT3EN. On sale in Oct. --------------------- Southern Tier Brewing loves their pumpkin so much, that they release four pumpkin beers annually. Pumking is an 8.6 % ABV Imperial Ale. Warlock is their 8.6 % ABV Imperial Stout. Cold Press Coffee Pumking and Rum Barrel Aged Pumking complete the offering. ------------------------- Effective November 1 the limit on retail beer in Utah goes from 3.2 percent alcohol by weight to 4 percent (5% ABV). Even this slight raise was protested by The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints, the state’s predominant faith. ------------------ Budweiser and Jim Beam® Bourbon unveiled Budweiser Reserve Black Lager, a limited-supply brew with an ABV of 7.1 percent which is 40% higher than regular Budweiser ---------------------- 60 percent of Hispanic consumers drink imported beer, compared to 40 percent of non-Hispanic consumers, according to the most recent Nielsen. survey. |


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| F. Scott Fitzgerald "Here's to beer and alcohol, the rose colored glasses of life." Lewis Grizzard "The only way that I could figure they could improve upon Coca-Cola, one of life's most delightful elixirs, is to put bourbon in it." William Shakespear “I pray you, do not fall in love with me, for I am falser than vows made in ale and wine.” Lorraine Baines “Don't be such a square. Everybody who's anybody drinks loads of beer.” |
| Benjamin Franklin “Wine and hearty ale makes daily living easier, less hurried, with fewer tensions and more tolerance.” Betty White “Beer is kind of a hobby, vodka is a profession.” William Faulkner “My own experience has been that the tools I need formy trade are paper, tobacco, food,a little whiskey, and lots of beer..” Mark Twain The only way to keep your health is to eat what you don't want, drink what you don't like, and do what you'd rather not. |
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