New Chinese Beer Law
A new Chinese law prohibits Air Force pilots from drinking alcoholic beverages at lunch while at work.
Barley Growers Get Beer Update From Coors
Peter "PJ" Coors of the Coors brewing family told Montana barley growers Friday that this has been a record year in what has been a stable business, with rapidly escalating fuel and fertilizer costs, rising grain prices and megamergers among brewers.
"The world's changed from this time last year for all of us," Coors said. "They're going to still be talking about 2008 20 years from now. The number two brewer and the number three brewer merge, and the number one gets bought out."
During a tour of a grain elevator and Montana State University's Southern Ag Research Center near Huntley, Coors said the July 1 merger of Coors Brewing of Golden, Colo., with Miller Brewing Co. of Milwaukee, Wis., will save money. For example, each truckload of beer will travel 300 fewer miles.
Then he shook his head at the latest shake-up announced Monday, plans by Belgium's InBev to pay $52 billion for Anheuser-Busch, creating the world's largest beer-brewing company.
"When MillerCoors announced our merger last October, Auggie Busch (chief executive) sent out an e-mail saying that they (Coors) will be distracted for a while and now is the time to attack," he said. "We're going to return the favor and take advantage of the possible confusion in the Anheuser-Busch ranks."
Meet the New King of Beers
Boston Beer CEO Jim Koch is as surprised as anyone that his company is now the country's No. 1 independent, publicly-traded brewery. Click to read an interview with him.
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