The new A-B: The story begins begins “Critics in the United States and overseas have eviscerated parent Anheuser-Busch InBev for slowing down its payments to suppliers in an effort to conserve cash. Employees say morale has shriveled.”
Sean Paxton is in the kitchen: Two stories really, from the current Imbibe magazine. Beer claims a place at the table is what’s known as the maingamer, while the sidebar Paxton offers tips for putting together a beer-pairing dinner.
Put away the ‘No Fat Tire’ signs: At least in the six (!) new markets New Belgium Brewing of Colorado will enter before summer: North Carolina, South Carolina, Georgia, Indiana, South Dakota and Wisconsin. Three NBB beers (Fat Tire, 1554 and Mothership Wit) went on sale in North Carolina on Monday.
Tuesday morning I had a quick conversation with the man behind the counter at Sam’s Quik Shop, a fine beer store in Durham. He said was was happy that now he could just point customers to the stack of Fat Tire when he heard one of his most asked questions. Then he looked at the display and noticed it appeared a lot of Fat Tire sold Monday evening, but almost none of the other two beers. As well as new markets in 2009 NBB has a bunch of new beers coming. Details in the press release.
Sam’s Quick Shop! What a blast from a past, speaking as a guy who probably bought his first six pack (of something awful no doubt) as a Duke Freshman way back when….
You should have mentioned you were in Durham earlier we could have grabbed a beer.