Kick-Off With Beer The University of Minnesota Regents voted to allow beer sales during Minnesota home football games. The measure was approved 10-1 and could bring in as much as $1.5 million yearly in extra revenue to the university. Minnesota now joins 21 universities that sell beer in their stadiums on football Saturdays, though the bulk of those teams play in a city-owned or pro sports venues. Minnesota will be the first Big Ten school to offer alcohol sales outside of its suites. Along with allowing beers sales many schools are also pursuing various measures to prevent problems. Along with checking the ID of everyone buying a brew some are dispensing beer in clear cups so security officers can monitor who's actually drinking it. Others permit sales only up to halftime. It also limits beer to only 3.2% alcohol by volume. |
Beer Border Conflict Friendships can sometimes be forged and disputes mended over a bottle of beer or two. And that’s exactly what Canadian liquor store owner Jim Pettinger is hoping will be the result of the Hans Across the Water beer, created in collaboration with Denmark’s Ugly Duck Brewing Company. Pettinger hopes to help in resolving the Hans Island dispute between Canada and Denmark by inviting PM Helle Thorning-Schmidt and Canadian prime minister Stephen Harper for a pint or two. While Pettinger’s invitation may sound like a joke, the dispute over Hans Island is not. Uninhabited and measuring just 1.3 sq km, Hans Island has been the subject of a sovereignty dispute between the two countries for almost 40 years. It lies on the maritime border between Canadian and Greenlandic territory, in the Kennedy Strait, and as the search for oil and minerals in the region has intensified, so too has the dispute over the island The disagreement escalated in 2005 when Canada’s defence minister at the time visited the island, leaving a Canadian flag as a memento of his trip. The Foreign Ministry did not appreciate the impromptu visit, and said that it considered the island to be Danish. Since then, efforts to reach the island are made by both countries each summer as a show of sovereignty. The brew that Pettinger is confident will help open lines of discussion is an Imperial Vanilla Coffee Porter. It’s a dark beer with hints of vanilla and coffee, and sold in 1.5 litre bottles containing 10 percent alcohol. The label for the bottle is a parody of Michelangelo’s ‘Creation of Adam’, with Pettinger in Adam’s position, and Martin Jensen, a brewer at Ugly Duck and a veteran of the Danish craft beer industry, as God. Jensen is pouring beer into a cup clutched in Pettinger’s outstretched hand, and both men are set against backdrops of the flags of their countries. |
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Beer Beats Church
More people tweeted the word "beer"
than the word "church". Some 10 million
tweets sent within the continental US
between July 22 and July 28 were combed
for the words "church" or "beer". Some 17,686 tweets
contained the word "church", while 14,405 tweets
contained the word "beer".
Tthe Northeast has the greater concentration of beer-
centric tweets, while the Southeast skews toward
church. In fact, Boston had the second greatest
disparity between beer tweets and church tweets,
behind San Francisco.
Bud Buys Corona
Anheuser-Busch InBev has take full control of the
maker of Corona Extra beer. The deal will solidify
Anheuser-Busch InBev’s position as the world’s biggest
brewer and as one of the industry’s most tenacious
consolidators. The deal will add Corona to a stable of
brands that already includes Budweiser and Stella
Artois. The combined company would have $47 billion in
annual revenue, with operations in 24 countries and
150,000 employees. The merger is expected to
generate about $600 million in annual cost savings.
