As you can imagine, news that MilCoo is moving to Chicago is about as interesting as the impending formation of In-Bud. Yawn. There must be something more interesting in beer going on:

• A group in Toronto has formed called Cask! to agitate for more of what they want. Great news...though I am not much a joiner-inner. I'd have to create a group called Couch and Backyard! to best express my inner beery voice.
• There's that guy in Australia who was dropping a grand a week on beer but that's just sad. About as sad as the Ohio county fair that seems to have a beer garden that doesn't serve beer.
• Who knew Chicago had beer riots?
• China makes 22% of the world's beer. Sounds impressive but with only 19.86% of the population, they are really international brewing slackers.
• A man was fired for selling someone of legal drinking age two beers.
• Good news from Utica as F.X. Matt must be turning things around after the fire in May with the roll out of their new Saranac Irish Ale.

Not the most exiting stretch for beer news, admittedly, but at least I am not reduced, like Stonch, to working that valuable and rich seam of pop social anthropology revealed in his recent studies of Carling or 1970s keg mild: "I hadn't tasted Carling in years. I haven't missed it. It tastes a bit like soda water - nothing offensive, just . . . nothing." Gold.