Subject: Beverage Manufacturing

• The Morning Brew: Tuesday, 10/9

  October 9, 2007

• Jones Soda Lolcat Contest

  March 26, 2008

• What You Missed: Beer School

  April 4, 2008

• Financial Times: InBev Targets Anheuser-Busch

  May 23, 2008

• The Morning Brew: Wednesday, 6.18

  June 18, 2008

• The Morning Brew: Thursday, 6.26

  June 26, 2008

• The Morning Brew: Monday, 7.7

  July 7, 2008

• Budweiser vs. Stella Artois: A Taste Test

  July 14, 2008

• Budweiser vs. Stella Artois: A Taste Test

  July 14, 2008

• The Morning Brew: Tuesday, 7.15

  July 15, 2008

• E-Mail of the Day: Pujols in Belgian Garb

  July 17, 2008

• The Morning Brew: Tuesday, 8.19

  August 19, 2008

• The Morning Brew: Thursday, 9.11

  September 11, 2008

• The Morning Brew: Monday, 9.29

  September 29, 2008

• The (Late) Morning Brew: Thursday, 10.30

  October 30, 2008

• Gut Check: NYC love for STL 'cue — and beer, beer, beer

  June 3, 2009

• AB InBev To Lay Off 1,000 in St. Louis

  Anheuser-Busch InBev employees are buzzing about imminent job cuts in the wake of InBev's recent acquisition of St. Louis' corporate crown jewel. The company today announced that it would cut 1,400 jobs in the United States, about 75 percent of them (1,050 jobs) in St. Louis. According to the Associated Press:Anheuser-Busch-InBev says it will cut 1,400 U.S. jobs -- or 6 percent of its U.S. work force -- as part of plans to streamline the beer company.It said three quarters of the jobs

  December 8, 2008

• St. Louis Craft Beer Week: Wednesday's Events

  Alberto Gottardo, Wikimedia CommonsThe first annual St. Louis Craft Beer Week continues. There are several events today:- Cicero's (6691 Delmar Boulevard; Web site) Beer School is hosting Jim O'Connor of Bell's Brewery from 5:30-6:30 p.m.- Mattingly Brewing Company (3000 South Jefferson Avenue; Web site) is holdings its weekly Peek-a-Brew event, featuring small batches of Drew Huerter's fantastic beer, beginning at 6 p.m.- A release party for Founders Brewing Company beers at the Clayton Wine &a

  June 3, 2009

• Breaking: Starbucks to Close 300 More Stores, Cut 6,700 Jobs

  MSNBC reports that Starbucks will close 300 additional stores and cut 6,700 jobs, both at those closed stores and at its corporate offices. The coffee giant saw its profit drop 69% during the first quarter of its fiscal year. No word yet on where and when the closings will occur.

  January 28, 2009

• Brew, Baby, Brew: The ranks of St. Louis' craft brewers are swelling as we swill

  June 3, 2009

• Kid Rock's Name to Grace Detroit Tigers' Ballpark, Official Stadium Beer

  Press release of the week winner. Everyone else can go home. It was announced today that Kid Rock has purchased the naming rights to the home of the Detroit Tigers for an undisclosed sum. Kid Rock and The Michigan Brewing Company, in a separate negotiation, are proud to announce that Kid Rock's forthcoming new line of beer will become the official beer of the Detroit Tigers. Says Kid Rock, "This has been a dream of mine for a long time, and with the banks in trouble it seemed like the right ti

  April 1, 2009

• Bud Light Still No. 1, So Say Bud Manimals

  Louie don't like it. Anheuser-Busch is disputing recent claims that Chinese brew Snow eclipsed Bud Light in global beer sales last year. In a statement this week, Budweiser president David Peacock argues that Snow represents a family of beer brands that includes at least 25 individual extensions such as Snow Draft Beer, Snow Super-Premium and Snow Original Malt all of which sell at various price points. "By itself, Bud Light remains the largest single brand in the world," says Peacock. In relate

  April 3, 2009

• FoodWire: Some Love for Schlafly

  As Gut Check has noted several times, this is the first annual St. Louis Craft Beer Week. So it's nice to see St. Louis craft breweries getting attention outside the area.First up, we have a poll for "Best Midwest Craft Brewery" on the Web site the Full Pint. Schlafly won with 25% of the vote, edging Great Lakes Brewery by 160 votes.Schlafly also garnered attention from Baltimore Sun beer blogger Rob Kasper. Kasper attended Savor, a craft-beer celebration in Washington, D.C., this past weekend.

  June 2, 2009

• St. Louis Craft Beer Week: Friday's Events

  Alberto Gottardo, Wikimedia CommonsThe first annual St. Louis Craft Beer Week concludes this weekend.- Of course, the big event this weekend is the St. Louis Brewers Heritage Festival in Forest Park, featuring area craft brewers, homebrewers and our friends at AB InBev. There are three sessions: 6-10 p.m. tonight and then noon-4 p.m. and 6-10 p.m. tomorrow.- The Clayton location of the Wine & Cheese Place (7435 Forsyth Boulevard) is hosting a beer tasting from 4-6:30 p.m. today.- The Ss. P

  June 5, 2009

• Can Steak-umm take Malcolm's mind off of losing Anheuser-Busch?

  June 18, 2008

• The 75-year anniversary of the repeal of Prohibition is upon us. Let us toast.

  April 2, 2008

• The Grape Escape

  January 2, 2008

• Your Cup Runneth Over

  October 24, 2007

• A Heady Heritage

  August 15, 2007

• Take Notes

  January 10, 2007

• MO Wine, Please

  February 7, 2007

• Bounty by the County

  July 19, 2006

• Responsibility Matters

  In the trade group known as the Beer Industry, Anheuser-Busch holds sway

  April 19, 2006

• The Grapes of Mirth

  Jonathan Nossiter's wine documentary is subversive, funny and humane

  May 18, 2005

• Best Beer

  Stag

  September 29, 2004

• $12 Wine Flight

  The Crossing, 7823 Forsyth Boulevard, Clayton, 314-721-7375

  April 21, 2004

• Drinkin' Dirt

  Bargain brews such as Pabst Blue Ribbon are making a comeback in some of St. Louis' hippest clubs, but Anheuser-Busch isn't too worried

  February 5, 2003

• Best Missouri Winery

  Stone Hill Winery

  September 25, 2002

• Side Dish

  January 3, 2001

• Paint Your Wagon

  May 12, 1999

• Anheuser-Busch Gaining Market Share, But at What Cost?

  flickr.com/photos/tojosanThe Wall Street Journal features a front-page story today on the shakeup since InBev's acquisition of Anheuser-Busch last year.The paper notes that the brewer managed to increase its market share three-quarters of a percentage point in the first quarter of this year (the first full quarter since the acquisition). However, not everyone over on Pestalozzi Street is happy with the penny-pinching that's driving productivity.  

  April 29, 2009

• Busch: A Great Recession Libation

  Sales of the "Blue Train" are heading for the mountains.Anheuser-Busch InBev posted strong gains yesterday for the first quarter of 2009. The results surprised some analysts who thought the weak economy and transition pains from InBev's 2008 acquisition of Anheuser-Busch could disrupt sales. Instead the combined company saw revenue increase 4.7 percent and liquid sales grow by 0.9 percent. But the real news came by way of the Wall Street Journal this week, which reported that the company's Busch

  May 8, 2009

• Gut Check: Raise a toast to departed restaurants — then have a beer or three

  May 27, 2009

• St. Louis Craft Beer Week Begins Saturday

  Alberto Gottardo, Wikimedia CommonsFirst, an apology: In this week's Gut Check column in the dead-tree Riverfront Times, I screwed up the dates for the first annual St. Louis Craft Beer Week. Events begin this Saturday, May 30, not last Saturday, as the column had it. My sincere apologies to Mike Sweeney and everyone else who's organizing this series of events.OK, so, Craft Beer Week kicks off, for real, this Saturday, with three events: The Beer and Brats Festival from noon-5 p.m. at Westport P

  May 28, 2009

• Java Enabled's Day at the Roasters

  "It smells sweet, like candy," my friend said as I extended my wrist to his nose. My skin had absorbed the caramel flavors that had been wafting around me all day like a welcome second-hand smoke. It was the smell of coffee roasting.It was a bad day to hang out near a coffee roaster -- much less two. The high was 96 degrees, with the humidity already maxing out at typical St. Louis swampy levels, when I went to view the roasting operations at both Northwest Coffee Roasting Company and Kaldi's Co

  June 24, 2009

• The Noble Writ: A Trying Time for Wine

  Like many sectors of the economy, the wine industry isn't doing well. You might suppose that alcohol sales would be more resilient than most things, and to some extent that's true -- sales of inexpensive wines remain relatively robust. However, high-end wines are being hit hard.My first clue that something was amiss? The numerous e-mails and mailings that I began receiving from wineries from which I hadn't purchased wine directly in many years, if ever.Many small domestic producers have mailing

  July 14, 2009

• The Noble Writ: Are Sulfites Friend or Foe?

  One of the larger areas of misconception surrounding wine is the use of sulfur compounds, most commonly sulfur dioxide (SO2), during the wine-making process. Many consumers seem to misunderstand why most winemakers add SO2 and what ill effects it might cause. Given that all wines containing more than 10 parts per million of sulfites are required by the Food and Drug Administration to sport a deadly-serious-looking official government label that warns of their presence, it isn't surprising that m

  September 8, 2009

• Does Brussels Sprout from New Bud Light Golden Wheat?

  anheuser-busch.com​Over at Daily RFT, my colleague Keegan Hamilton has a new post about Anheuser-Busch's latest beer product, Bud Light Golden Wheat. Citing beer blogger Lew Bryson, Hamilton wonders why Anheuser-Busch won't give more specifics about what specific type of wheat beer the latest iteration of Bud Light is. Could it be because Bud Light Golden Wheat is a Belgian-style witbier, and the company wants to downplay the obvious associations with InBev?Go read the post for more, including

  October 7, 2009

• Thirsty for Knowledge?

  October 21, 2009

• FoodWire: GQ Names Kaldi's One of Ten Best for Coffee

  Oliver Strand of GQ magazine has named Kaldi's Coffee Roasting Company one of the ten best places for coffee in the United States. Kaldi's illustrious company on the list includes such nationally well-known coffee purveyors as Intelligentsia of Chicago and Los Angeles and Stumptown of Portland (Oregon), Seattle and New York City. The item on Kaldi's notes its reputation for roasting coffee and its Espresso 700 blend. Congrats to the Kaldi's team!

  October 22, 2009