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Businessweek A Beer Growler Battle Is Brewing in Florida Businessweek In Florida, the refillable beer jugs known as growlers are the subject of an unlikely legislative battle. Under current law, breweries can sell beer in quart and gallon-size containers, but they can't fill a half-gallon bottle. Craft brewers want to ... Beer Distrib ...

Rahm Emanuel's favorite beers and bars in Chicago Chicago Tribune Mayor Rahm Emanuel says the idea came to him while he was swimming: Why not push Chicago as a beer destination? "You can count your laps while you're swimming, or you noodle on an idea," the mayor said. "I was getting ready for a quarterly tourism ...

These Are the 21 Best Pumpkin Beers, in Order Huffington Post To create this list of 21 beers, I got my hands on a mix of pumpkin brews from all across the country -- from big breweries that distribute everywhere to the little guys making craft beer in the middle of nowhere. I wanted to try envelope-pushing ...

Guardian Liberty Voice Great American Beer Festival 2014 Winners Announced Guardian Liberty Voice The Great American Beer Festival was held on Thursday October 2 through Saturday October 4 at the Colorado Convention Center in Denver. The three-day-long festival was a chance to taste and savor over 3,500 of the best beers brewed in Amer ...

New beer fest, autumn celebration welcomes the change of seasons Morning Star FRANKFORT – Frankfort will honor the arrival of fall in a big way with two major events: the new Frankfort Beer Week, celebrating Michigan craft beers and the “foodie” scene that's thriving in the quaint Lake Michigan harbor town, scheduled f ...

Beer Stock Exchange Big Hit at Annual Bierborse Celebration Newscenter1.tv “The crowd is bigger than we expected, we ran out of beer and had to replenish our stocks several times already today and I think some of that might have to do with our new stock exchange program that we ordered from Germany,” said Elizabeth Smith, th ...

U-T San Diego Munich Oktoberfest ends with a beer and a bang U-T San Diego Bavarian riflemen and women in traditional costumes fire their muzzle loaders in front of the 'Bavaria' statue on the last day of the Oktoberfest beer festival in Munich, southern Germany, Sunday, Oct. 5, 2014. (AP Photo/Matthias Schrader) The ... Last Call! Ok ...

New York Times In Chicago, a Tasting Tour of Barrel-Aged Beer New York Times It was just a beer, yes, but no ordinary lager; more of an evolution into a higher form. White oak barrels that once held Kentucky bourbon, then Jamaican rum, had their third alcoholic incarnation here in aging this doppelbock for seven months. The ...

BBC News The country with one people and 1200 sausages BBC News The British Museum has in its collection drinking vessels from all around the world, but the German collection is striking for its quantity of glasses, mugs, tankards and other vessels - primarily made for the drinking of beer. Mostly from the 16th and ...

New Orleans On Tap beer judges, crowds tapped winning homebrews The Times-Picayune - NOLA.com Certified beer judges sniffed, eyeballed, sipped and savored each of the six finalists in New Orleans On Tap's first homebrewing competition, ensuring the beers met standards for technical merit and some stylistic accuracy, but in the end it wa ...