Posts Tagged: Beer and Law
Great Summing Up Of The Shadowy Portman Group
Posted by on Monday, January 5, 2009 in - 2 comments
The news last week of the shadowy Portman Group's abandonment of its efforts to "remove interestingness caused by the more clever smaller competition"¹ from beer shelves of Britain at least in relation to one beer, Orkney's Skull Splitter, is neatly summarized by Roy Beers in The Publican today …
Ontario Beer Prices Go Up For No Good Reason At All
Posted by on Sunday, December 21, 2008 in - 4 comments
Liar, liar, pants on fire. That is what the Toronto Star says about the LCBO and Ontario's government anyway: • That 6.7 per cent increase in the floor price of a case, bottle deposit excluded, has nothing to do with supply-and-demand, production costs, overhead or distribution expenses. Instead …
Scenes Of Red Tape: If The Last Tenant's Licensed, You're Not!
Posted by on Thursday, December 18, 2008 in - 1 comment
Sometimes the wonder that is the bureaucracy around licensing is a beauty to behold. Consider this sad tale from the latest session of the Chattanooga Beer Board: • Tonya Hacker appeared before the Chattanooga Beer Board on Thursday for approval of a beer permit for Rhapsody Café which she and …
The Session #22: What Does Repeal Mean to Me?
Posted by on Friday, December 5, 2008 in - 4 comments
It seems like a very sad thing. As Mr. Beaumont has already pointed out, for a global beer blogging day, the very question asked is so provincial, so singularly parochial and limited to one nation of all the nations of the world that one has to take it either as an intentional insult or at least … read more »
BrewDog And Skull Splitter Face Humourless Tribunal
Posted by on Monday, November 17, 2008 in - 5 comments
Following up on a story we discussed last May, tomorrow's edition of The Independent tells the sad tale of how both BrewDog and the Orkney Brewery, makers of Skull Splitter, have had a ruling made against them by the shadowy Portman Group - described by The Independent as a self-regulating … read more »
NY Market For Canuck Macro Key To InBev Deal
Posted by on Friday, November 14, 2008 in - leave a comment
How odd. Those cases and cases of cheap ass Canadian Labatt Blue selling in upstate NY gas stations and grocery stores for about half of the price we pay up here have become an issue in the global InBev deal for A-B: • The Justice Department said Friday it will have to sell the U.S. Labatt …
Is This Our Law Of Beer Hero Of The Day?
Posted by on Thursday, November 6, 2008 in - 1 comment
I am not going to suggest this world needs more violence, more anti-civil behaviours, more jerks. No, I am not going to suggest that. But I might suggest that once in a while a well placed beer poured from above is not such a bad thing: • A Glenview man who poured beer over his apartment balcony …
"Man Arrested In Santa Cruz With Beer Keg, Harmonica, Wet Suit..."
Posted by on Thursday, October 30, 2008 in - 2 comments
"...and hallucinogenic mushrooms." • That's a headline in The Mercury News of San Jose today. When I go hunting Goggle, once in every while, for beer news to comment upon there are always masses of these sad stories about beer and violence to get through about, say, man beats man with beer or …
Does Beer Glass Size Really Matter?
Posted by on Sunday, October 26, 2008 in - 8 comments
Years ago in Stirling Scotland I likely got my only true pint of beer. The fluid crested over the glass holding it through the miracle of surface tension and the bartender told me to lean over and take a first draw off the top to avoid losing too much. That was a fine pint. Every other of the …
We Used To Expect People To Publicly Pee In Comfort
Posted by on Thursday, October 23, 2008 in - 3 comments
Blogging upon other people's bloggy observations is one other the lowest forms of blogging. Yet, when someone like Pete Brown goes about actually going to real events and doing things like taking a cask of IPA to India by boat, well, that is really more like conveying actual news … read more »
