Glasgow-based craft beer delivery and subscription Brewgooder wants to partner with 500 breweries across the world to raise at least £250,000 ($321k/ CA$426k) to provide clean water to 100,000-plus people. Breweries will agreed to brew small-batch beers that will be released simultaneously on the weekend of 20-22 March 2020. These dates coincide with World Water…
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While small craft breweries have been the ones driving the beer industry, with hard seltzers it’s been the big breweries creating the market. Now Bud Light has come onboard with its new Bud Light Seltzer, which will be released early next year. The 100-calorie, 5% ABV seltzer will come in four flavours: black cheery, lemon…
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Newfoundland’s Quidi Vidi’s Iceberg beer has been chosen to represent Canada at the first NATO Association Beer Festival, reports CBC. The St John’s company beat breweries in Nova Scotia and Ontario for the top spot in an online vote. Justin Fong, Quidi Vidi’s head of marketing, is hoping the publicity will help spread the brewery’s…
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A US North Dakota brewery is using the space on its can to ‘advertise’ dogs from the local animal shelter that are in desperate need of a ‘forever home’. Fargo Brewing Company has partnered with 4 Luv of Dog Rescue to put the dog’s pictures on the cans. The dogs feature have a hard time…
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If you want to know what drink is becoming a consumer favourite, look no further that the US state of Kentucky were there are 9.1 million barrels of bourbon and aging spirts, according to VinePair. This is in a state with around 4.5 million people. Last Wednesday, the Kentucky Distillers’ Association (KDA) tweeted : “Terrific news! Kentucky…
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While it’s hard to see this keeping anyone awake on 31 December 2019 in pure excitement, Infuse Your Life Health Products will be launching next year its Pantheon non-alcoholic cardiovascular and antioxidant beer. The company says, in a story which broke in Brewbound and Infuse’s Facebook page, its non-alcoholic beer will have organic barley and…
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One of BC’s most popular craft brewers as announced on its website that it’s bringing back its Winter Beeracle for the winter season. The brewery says that this year’s brew is a smooth winter ale with a rich malt base and flavours of dark chocolate and orange. Hops are Centennial and Willamete, with Malts being…
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Molson Coors, responsible for brewing Milles, Coors and Molson brands around the world, has announced restructuring plans that will cut around 400-500 jobs and retire the MillerCoors moniker. One of the reasons behind this has been huge loses in the Canadian market. MillerCoors had been the moniker for the company’s U.S. branch since 2008, but…
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Asbestos-laced beer from the 1970s is being blamed for a quadrupling of oesophagus (also spelled esophagus) cancer cases in the UK, according to a story which broke in Saturday’s Sun newspaper. The use of asbestos filters was also common in North America at the same time. Brewers at the time used asbestos to filter out…
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Calgary’s Village Brewery has announced the addition of a new beer to its year-round line-up. Village Nomad IPA (6.5% ABV, 60 IBU) is described by Village as having “a bright hazy colour, a balanced wheat and barley malt backbone and a showcase of peach, mango and citrus notes provided by galaxy, mosaic and citra hops.” This was…
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