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It is banned in 13 states, including Ohio, and sure doesn't come in a six-pack. The maker of Samuel Adams beer has released an updated version of its biennial beer Utopias - now the highest alcohol content beer on the market.

A controversial UK brewery has launched the world's strongest beer 'Tactical Nuclear Penguin' with a massive ABV of 32%. The high alcohol volume of the BrewDog beer beats the previous record of 31% which was held by German beer brand Schorschbraer.

The latest version of Utopias, released last week by the Boston Beer Company, is 27 percent alcohol by volume and illegal in 13 states.

DRINKERS in Wantage can sup safe in the knowledge their local is one of the best pubs in Britain.

Two things most Marines love: loyalty to the Corps and beer. Put the two together and you get Semper Ri - a dark, winter rye beer made by Westport, Mass., brewer Bill Russell.

A post-Thanksgiving beer heist turned into a post-holiday letdown for a man who ran out of a store without paying for a 12-pack and cigarettes.

Contracts had been ready to sign and Bain had secured financing for the projected 1.7 billion Euro deal, weekly Wirtschaftswoche said on Saturday in an excerpt of an article to be published on Monday, citing financial sources.

A Scottish brewery, with a history of controversy, claims to have made the world's strongest beer.

A lot has been said about Dogfish Head beer - in case you haven't heard, it's good - and we frequently publicize the brewpub's musical acts.

CHANCELLOR Alistair Darling is facing fresh calls to ease the pressure on pubs, as a new drive is launched to halt a wave of closures, writes WMN London Editor Matt Chorley.

LANDLORDS Sigrun and Chris Brazier of the Jolly Tanners in Staplefield will be unveiling a new brew made especially for them and named after their pet dogs at their latest beer festival starting tomorrow.

A controversial Scottish brewery has launched what it described as the world's strongest beer - with a 32% alcohol content.

A canalside pub held its first beer and music festival at the weekend featuring local bands and around 20 real ales on sale.

Steve Turner, left, and Chris Asher recently opened Asher Brewing Co., a startup microbrewery with an organic beer bent.

The Long Trail Brewing Company is in quiet negotiations to purchase the Otter Creek and Wolaver's brands in a deal that will be finalized by the end of the year, according to several sources.

For The Herald Bulletin MUNCIE - Fickle Peach co-owner Chris Piche knows what good beer tastes like, and what it's worth for spending time with friends.

Kevin DeLange, the owner of Dry Dock Brewery, a craft beer maker in Aurora, Colo., says business has soared ever since he bought a sixth fermenter to brew beer.

When Coca-Cola Amatil's chairman, David Gonski, quietly announced a few weeks ago an effective extension to the employment contract of its chief executive, Terry Davis, financial chatter about the reasons reached a pitch.

A MAN who stole a A 7 pack of beers, after changing the price tag to just 14p, has been fined after appearing in court.

BRIEF: Marriott location uses honey from roof-top bees in its beer: Resident insects at Mag Mile's Marriott make honey, which makes its way into the booze Nov.

Penn Brewery founder Tom Pastorius said he and a group of investors have purchased the company from a private equity fund, and will start making beer again at the Troy Hill microbrewery within two weeks.

A weekend getaway to the City of Roses - or, shall we say, the City of Beer - is a great way to erase the mid-November blahs.

OLYMPIA About 150 current and former employees of Crown Beverage Packaging celebrated 50 years of manufacturing metal beer and soft-drink cans Saturday at the company's plant on Fones Road.

We've noticed a trend in a handful of our neighborhood bars lately. It seems that staff who pride themselves in stocking high-quality, flavorful beers are figuring out ways to undermine their need to sell yellow water to the masses.

Alcohol prices could rise by 10% next year because of tax increases, the head of a major brewer has said.

A bar in New York City is under investigation for allegedly selling a Wisconsin beer, and the local brewery said it isn't sure how its product ended up there.

Car fuel Bioethanol is made by the yeast Saccharomyces cerevisiae from sugars obtained from plant biomass.

What a beautiful hazy apricot color and sweet malt aroma this beer has as you pour it into the glass.

"Malty beer resonates with the caramelized skin of a turkey and brings out the herbal flavors in stuffing." [ Photograph: Maggie Hoffman ] If you want to eat like the Pilgrims this Thanksgiving, you should probably get busy hunting for deer and wild ducks.

Drinking a bottle of wine a day, or half a dozen beers, cuts the risk of heart disease by more than half in men, an extraordinary study reports.

Beer. You've seen it at sporting events, parties and backyard barbecues, but have you ever thought about just what goes into that can or bottle? Not the ingredients, the economics.

When she worked downtown, every Friday night my mom would get on the 5:04 train.

Collaboration beers are the epitome of the mythic win-win. Two or more brewers share their knowledge, stretch their creative muscles and create a beer that's usually greater than the sum of its parts.

Real ale enthusiasts will be making a beeline for Otley on Friday for the towna s beer festival.

BY TODD HAEFER There are great beers made in nearly every country in the world, but my experience is that Russia is not one of them.

The dinner raised a record $6.2 million and these funds will be used to assist in leadership development, programmatic support, scholarship and capacity-building for the 47 public Historically Black Colleges and Universities served by the Fund.

Ye Olde Falcon Pub, 2867 S. University Drive, Davie. Call 954-424-0300, or click here .

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Butch Bailey loves the opportunity to savor the flavor of the exotic when it comes to a pint of ale or stein of stout.

The Boston Beer Company is a great barometer for what's happening with the craft beer market, so the announcement of the Samuel Adams Barrel Room Collection is great news for beer fans.

In a perfect world, anyone could enjoy this holiday gift. However, this gift is a beer, and this not your average brew.

Nov 14th 2009 at 4:03PM A bottle of beer rescued from the crash of the Hindenburg recently sold at auction for over $16,000 according to This is Wiltshire in the UK.

The first Stonehaven Real Ale Festival raised about 3,500 for a local rescue team that helped during the recent serious flooding in the town.

It Tastes Like a Tuesday Wine Tasting will continue at 5 p.m. on the second Tuesday of each month at The Oregon Garden Resort, 895 W Main St.

Beer and Thanksgiving The holidays are a great time to celebrate with a beer. Pair turkey with delightful local Chicago ale choices.

WAKEFIELD beer festival has been "aled" as a big success. More than 2,000 tankards were made for visitors to the 19th annual event which pulled real ale lovers to Lightwaves Leisure Centre to sample more than 130 beers during the three-day festival.

The world record price for a bottle of beer was smashed in Devizes today when a bottle of Lowebrau lager sold for over A 10,000. The bottle was recovered from the wreckage of the German airship Hindenburg after it burst into flames as it moored at Lakehurst, New York, on May 6 1937.

Tomorrow will be the third, and final, Friday the 13th in 2009 . On Saturday, we suggest you celebrate surviving yet another night of horror flick marathons by driving to Paso Robles for Firestone Walker's annual Anniversary Ale release party.

Ale lovers can look forward to sampling 62 draught beers at the 2009 Otley Beer Festival.

Originally published November 13, 2009 at 8:02 a.m., updated November 13, 2009 at 8:02 a.m. EXPORT, Pa.

Scott sent the following to me, and it most certainly caught my interest: Beer Bottle from Hindenburg Disaster, World's Most Expensive Singed Bottle of Lowenbrau Recovered From Historic Inferno Could Fetch $8,000 By RUSSELL GOLDMAN A singed bottle of beer recovered from the ashes of the Hindenburg disaster is expected to fetch $4,000 to $8,000 at ...

Green beer will be flowing at the Scottsdale Waterfront Thursday. As part of the Big Pour event celebrating craft beers, the different colored beverage will be available as the focus shifts to environmentally-friendly brewing.

Beer and dessert? What has the world come to? Let me assure you that the right beer blends seamlessly into any Thanksgiving dessert you can think of.

The world's largest brewer Anheuser-Busch InBev SA said Thursday it made a $1.546 billion profit in the third quarter but that revenue fell 10 percent from last year, when the company was created in a merger, as beer sales shrank.

So you want to know about beer, do ya'? Listen up, 'cause I've been in the same boat as you.

HAIR OF THE DOG ANNIVERSARY SALE , 10 a.m. - 4 p.m. Saturday, Hair of the Dog Brewing Co., 4509 SE 23rd Ave.; 503-232-6585 -- Hair Of The Dog Brewing is 16 years old and the brewery's annual dock sale celebrates that -- and attracts beer fans from as far away as Seattle and Ashland to stand in line and snap up the limited edition beers that Alan ...

A fire damaged bottle of beer found in the wreckage of the doomed Hindenburg airship is expected to fetch up to 5,000 at auction.

A recent visit to my local tavern in Scandinavia, Wis., introduced me to an out-of-state visitor who just happened to have some Black Butte Porter in his trunk.

CocoaHop is a special beer and chocolate sampling event at with all proceeds going to the new startup community radio station KZME .

Pumpkin beers are about as divergent as, say, french fries, or whiskeys. Their pumpkin flavor ranges from barely detectable to running-you-over-with-a-dumptruck, and while they're usually ales, they can be lagers too.

Cobra Beera s new owner has unveiled details of its first major push for the recently relaunched brand as well as announcing the appointment of BMB to handle advertising.

Beer. Beer is one of the oldest bottled beverages. The flavor of beer is something that cannot be described in any precise way.

Russian lawmakers accepted a bill that may triple the excise tax on beer next year in the first of three readings.

Attention, women who love good beer and people who love women who love good beer: Los Angeles-based beer expert Christina Perozzi, who helms the blog Beer for Chicks and co-author Hallie Beaune will host a special beer dinner at Fork next Monday, November 16 at 6:30 p.m. to promote their new book The Naked Pint: An Unadulterated Guide to Craft Beer ...

Beer Haiku Friday exposes the best way to watch the fireworks with a poem called, unsurprisingly, " Fireworks ": at my secret spot with a wagon full of beer watching fireworks The October Backbencher beer tasting had the theme " Best of Brew NZ ": The October Backbencher beer tasting had a a oeBest of Brew NZa theme.

The Tanzanian competition authorities are investigating allegations of anti-competitive behaviour against SABMiller's Tanzania Breweries Limited .

Our Field Reporter eManu recently visited Cantillon. You can find his full report, along with some great photos and a video by following this link.

Officials have said the changes will bring in an extra 65 billion rubles of budget revenue in 2010.

The 22nd Annual Phinny Neighborhood Assocation Winter Beer Taste will take place from 7 p.m. to 10 p.m. on Nov.

Big Brothers Spend is making possible an evening of hot food, cold beer and cool jazz at the Ozarks Beerfest Patron's Party 6-9 p.m. Nov.

Anheuser Busch Pub Crawl takes place this Friday Anheuser Busch is creating more than the classic Budweiser, and the business owners in Baldwinsville want to show them off.

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Peak Brewing CEO Jon Cadoux said it's not hooking them, but instead the hard part is getting consumers to try it in the first place.

A brewery in St Helens is set to fight it out for the regional beer Oscars next month.

Old North State Winery is joining the growing micro-brewing beer business, with plans to start distributing its brews to bars and restaurants next year! According to The Business Journal's Justin Catanoso, Ben Webb, the general manager and winemaker for the downtown Mount Airy winery, said for the last five months, Old North has been making and ...

Today's announcement will result in 1,738 redundancies, according to administrators KPMG.

By substituting rye for some of the barley in the mash, brewmasters give these beers a hint of spicy warmth and a touch of rye-bread flavor.

A 21-year-old township resident was charged Oct. 29 with a criminal complaint for serving or providing alcohol to a minor.

A Pittsburgh neighborhood preservation group wants to save the former Iron City Brewing Co.

A growing number of states are moving to allow higher alcohol content in beer, despite concerns from some substance-abuse experts.

Increasing sales of premium beers have helped Lion Nathan to a 13 per cent profit rise Australia's second largest brewer, Lion Nathan, has reported a 13 per cent rise in full-year profit, boosted mainly by premium beers sales.

MillerCoors' third-quarter profit climbed on cost-control efforts as well as the strength of beer brands like MGD 64.

Molson Coors says it raised prices across its major markets but discounted some prices to compete.

OK, a pint of beer is technically a measurement so it would be impossible to have one pint be larger than another. But Romania has rewritten measurement standards with this beer.

Danish brewer Carlsberg has cut its full-year sales forecast after a sharp decline in the Russian market.

I have a strong fondness for traditional European-style lagers yet rarely drink them because of years of disappointment.

Despite a 50 cent increase looming over New Brunswick beer drinkers this weekend, the province's prices aren't far off the national average.

Beer drinkers and non-beer drinkers unite, San Diego Beer Week hosts a week you don't want to miss.

Citizens of the Town of Newland will vote on whether to allow sales of malt beverages and wine during this year's municipal election.

The Russian government is only making alcohol consumption worse by increasing taxes for brewers, according to Jorgen Buhl Rasmussen, president of Carlsberg, which owns Baltika brewery.

Set in the appropriately spooky location of the Royal Victoria Patriotic Building , this Halloween-themed Beer festival features a spine-tinglingly good selection of real ales from all corners of the UK.

Central New York beer lovers are in heaven. The second annual beer week is underway, with more than 100 brew-themed events scheduled throughout the week.

We know there are a few beer drinkers in the valley and thought we'd be remiss if we didn't review some upscale beers occasionally.

Enforcement officers from the Royal Customs and. Excise Department on Saturday morning foiled an attempt to smuggle 360 cans of beer with the estimated value of $375 into the country through a mouse trail near the border.

A Kintnersville man's craving for a cold one - many cold ones it seems - resulted in him being charged with felony burglary, police said Friday.

Cobra Beer founder Karan Bilimoria is on a drive to raise 4.5 million pounds for his Indian business after partly selling the British arm in a pre-pack administration deal, the Sunday Times reported.

Annheuser-Busch brewmaster George Reisch will visit the Court Avenue district for a pub crawl on Nov.