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By Rocky | March 31, 2008
How did this poor guy marry her? He needs a beer just to survive his high maintanance nagging wife before her special dinner party. Lets hope he dosen’t he dosn’t spill his soup on his tie or he will never hear the end of it. This cute little ad is for Miller Beer and dates back to the 60’s, wonder what’s for dinner fondue, beef Wellington or maybee even Sweedish Meatballs… sounds delicious.
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Budweiser Streaker
By Rocky | March 28, 2008
This You Tube video is a real classic, it was produced by the giant American Brewer Anheuser-Busch for their popular Budweiser brand and used for the Superbowl XL. It features a football game between a heap of animals, and the star attraction like most big sporting games is the streaker. Get ready to close your eyes at the star attraction- expecially if you are from the land of the long white cloud. Only joking!
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This beer is lucky
By Rocky | March 22, 2008
The huge Canadian Brewer Labatt Ontario Breweries Ltd have been making this great tasting lager since 1934 and is great example of their brewing skills. This 4.8% easy drinking light coloured lager is brewed with no nasty presevatives. The beer was actually named after a name contest and has become one of the breweries favorite beers. The Labatt brewery was actually founded in London, Ontario in 1847 by John Kinder Labbatt it is now part of the huge InBev company from Belgium which owns Stella and other huge world brands. Labatt is the biggest brewer in Canada.
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Select Bud Select
By Rocky | March 20, 2008
The huge US brewer Anheuser-Busch has launched another product to it’s Budweiser suite of beers, this time its Budweiser Select. The Select is a premium beer which the company says has a distinctively bold taste that makes you mouth take notice…mmm sounds good. The beer uses quality ingredients including two row barely, special roasted malts and hand picked Bavarian and American hops. The beer is a 4.3% alcohol volume pale lager and contains only 99 calories and 3.1 grams of carbohydrates. The Budweiser Select is aiming a the young and modern market and has got some very slick advertising and promotions running, they have even got rapper Jay Z on board as their brand’s spokesperson. It’s well worth a look at their very interactive website, a lot of work has gone into producing it: www.budweiserselect.com
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A little leprechaun told us about Bud Light
By Rocky | March 16, 2008
With St Patrick ’s Day tomorrow there will be a little leprechaun or two knocking back a Bud Light in their special commemorative green packaging. This flash looking aluminum bottle has been specially made for these years St Patrick Day celebrations and it has been a huge winner. Not only are people buying it to drink the fresh Bud Light but there’s heaps of collectors who are making quiet a collection of these commemorative aluminum cans. You might remember the Daytona 50th Anniversary one we ran a story about a few weeks ago, - its going for huge dollars on eBay much more than the retail price, and it looks as this special St Patrick’s Day bottle will follow.- might be an idea to go grab a few six packs and try not to drink all of them- you might find your pot of gold. Happy St Patricks Day!
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A mixed box of Grolsch
By Rocky | March 15, 2008
Grolsch have a great new product on sale in the USA, a slab, or 24 pack with 4 different varieties of beer. Each of the four Grolsch products, the traditional premium larger, the blond, the light lager and the amber ale are included as six packs in 12 ounce bottles. This is one of the first beer companies to create a sampler pack and judging from the popularity there will be plenty of manufactures following. It’s a great way to try a few different beers and not having to pay six pack price. If you have seen any other brands doing similar drop us a line.
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There’s more to Mexican beer than Corona
By Rocky | March 5, 2008
Tecate is a small city in the Mexican state of Baja California about 40 miles from San Diego and is home to Tecate Beer, -wonder how they come up with that name? Just about everyone thinks just of Corona when they think of Mexican beer and sure its a great beer but there are so many other Mexican beers just as good and many even better, Tecate, Sol and Dos Equis’ XX are just a few others you should try. The Tectate Beer dates back to 1944 when a guy called Alberto Aldete operated a small malt factory in Tecate he brewed a bit of beer on the side and decided to go big time with it. In the mid 1950s the brewery was sold to Cuauhtemoc Moctezuma who now are know for making Superior, Sol and Dos Equis. The Tecate beer is a light pilsner style beer and is the source and pride of Baja California. Try some next time you order a drink with your nachos.
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Quilmes from Argentina
By Rocky | March 4, 2008
Quilmes is the most popular beer in Argentina, it is a pilsner style beer and is brewed by the Cerveceria y Maltera Quilmes company using local hops, malt and crystal clear Patagonian waters. The brewery started in 1888 when an German immigrant called Otto Bemberg started brewing in Buenos Aries and it only took a little over 20 years to become the country’s biggest brewer and has about 75% of the Argentinean market share for beer. The are a major sponsor of the mighty Argeninian Soccer team and are now owned by the huge AmBev Company which owns brands like Grolsch, SABMiller and Stella.
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Heineken Beertender
By Rocky | March 3, 2008
The Heineken Beertender has just gone on sale in the USA after years of waiting. The Beertender is a fantastic idea, its a very classy refrigerated housing for your Heineken kegs complete with beer tap and a cool LCD temperature panel. Its the perfect way to serve ice cold draft Heineken at home. The Beertender is exclusive to Williams-Sonoma stores for a few weeks with a shelf price of $299 US. In April it will be available at other stores, but be quick as they are sure to sell well. The beer is meant to keep about 3 weeks in the Beertender, but everyone knows that’s impossible, its lucky to last the night, as once you take the first mouthful of icey Heineken with your mates, you wont be able to stop!. Read the rest of this entry »
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Cubanero Fuerte
By Rocky | February 26, 2008
Cubanero or Bucanero as it is know in some countries is brewed by the Bucanero Brewery in Holguin Cuba which is the country’s largest brewer, and also the maker of the Palma Cristal that we featured a few weeks back. The brewery is jointly owned with Canada’s Labatts. Its a 5.4% lager style beer and is similar in taste to many of the central American beers. With the American trade embargo the beer dosen’t have a very big export market although it is available in the UK under the Cubanero name plate. There was a trademark issue that prevents it from being sold as Bucanero there. In Havana they make a stronger variety called Bucanero Max which is also quiet popluar.
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