A group of new lawsuits contends that Budweiser brands, from Bud Light Platinum to Michelob Ultra, make the beer giant the king of watered down beers. Somewhere, beer snobs are snickering — maybe even to the tune of $15 million.
a few days after Anheuser-Busch InBev changed up the terms of the merger, things could be coming to a peaceful resolution with the U.S. Justice Department — and the world could be mixing Bud and Corona after all, technically speaking.
Here's where the brands belonging to the two biggest beer companies on the planet, Anheuser-Busch InBev and SABMiller, really come from. (What with the pending litigation and all, this is more like beer Risk than beer Monopoly.)
Mixing Budweiser and Coors would be too much for the beer market to swallow, according to a lawsuit just filed by the Justice Department seeking to block Anheuser-Busch InBev's merger with Mexican brewing giant Grupo Modelo.
Beleaguered but beloved snack-cake brand Twinkies may have found a solution to its bankruptcy problems that involves joining forces with owner of Pabst Blue Ribbon beer — and, yes, the Twinkie hysteria has returned, this time for good.
A summary of the best reads found behind the paywall of The New York Times.
Don't laugh: Lagers, ales, and pilsners were long considered "food" by the Russian government, but thanks to a new rule going into effect in 2013 (any minute now over there), it's going to be a lot tougher to find a brewski in the motherland.
Discovered: Hops help prevent severe forms of pneumonia and bronchitis in kids, plus video of an elusive Malaysia cat, what bat autopsies can teach us about AIDS, and why genetic mutations are more common than you thought.
Molson Coors, Canada's oldest and biggest beer company, has fallen on hard times in recent weeks, and it wants you to know that it's the NHL's fault.
Discovered: Mapping the genetics of barley; intelligence linked with anorexia and bulimia; UV light could prevent nasty hospital infections; dolphins sleep with one eye open.
After about a month of boiling, cooling, fermenting and settling—the verdict on the White House beer recipe is in: It's delicious!
If you want to taste the White House's fabled honey ale without having to make it, the best way would be to position yourself along President Barack Obama's campaign route, as the president is apparently handing it out to would-be voters on the trail.
After the petitions and the Freedom of Information requests, and a bit of a wait, the White House finally released their official beer recipe. Drink up, home brewers.
The Tea Party was right: This is the most secretive White House in modern history—at least when it comes to beer recipes.
Ever since President Obama began carrying around his own White House-brewed beer on the campaign trail, beer geeks have been eager to learn its secret recipe.
We don't know when it was determined that we could not read books of substance on the beach. But with the help of some literary-minded friends of The Atlantic Wire, we're calling hogwash on this verdict.
Discovered: alcohol may increase your problem-solving skills, men don't act chivalrous when disaster strikes, UCLA has created a time machine of sorts and toddlers and chimps have something in common.
FIFA's next World Cup is slated to take place in Brazil, which doesn't allow alcohol sales at sporting events, but FIFA's commissioner made clear Thursday that little things like "laws" won't stand in the way of soccer fans and their brew.
Though it's not the career move we would have predicted, Hanson, that trio of pre-pubescent brothers who hit it big in 1997 with "Mmmbop" has gone into the beer brewing business.
Curious priorities in selecting which bureaucracies to keep open amid government shutdown
A chart from the American Association of Wine Economists on global beer consumption
The Senator introduced legislation to cut taxes for microbreweries
An idea for a better stout--with a lot of repetitions of the word "nucleation"
Former President Jimmy Carter may have a somewhat mixed record, with a Nobel Peace Prize on the one hand and a lost 1980 reelection bid on the other, but blogger E.D. Kain wants to add one very significant accomplishment to the Carter legacy: The booming U.S. craft beer industry.
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