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Interesting news on the foreign beer front. Imports of beer into the U.S. have been dropping like a rock this year as drinkers pinch pennies and…

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In the midst of a rough summer, the beer industry just posted a victory. Trade groups representing brewers big and small have cajoled over half of the legislators in the House of Representatives to sign…

The beer industry is struggling. We get that. The current economic situation testing the theory that beer is  “recession-resistant,” as we have been told numerous times.

In a spot of good news, the Washington-based Beer Institute released numbers showing that beer shipments…

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Lager Heads has discussed the possibility of a beer tax being used as a funding mechanism for a remaking of the U.S. health care system. But it appears that is not going to happen.

A beer tax…

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Just how bad is the environment for imported beer these days? Bad. Yes, consumers still think the beers are high-quality. But they seem dern expensive in this limp economy. That’s the problem.

The numbers, please, my dear…

Two big trade groups for the beer industry are applauding the introduction of a bill in the U.S. House of Representatives that would lower the federal excise tax on beer to levels not seen in nearly two decades.

The Washington-based Beer Institute (for…

The Beer Institute, the Washington, D.C.-based lobbying group representing big brewers such as Anheuser-Busch InBev, is using the 75th anniversary of Prohibition’s repeal to push for a rollback of the federal beer tax. The group calls the tax “excessively high,” arguing that…

Big brewers including Anheuser-Busch of St. Louis and MillerCoors of Chicago spent upwards of a million bucks combined in the third quarter on lobbying, the Associated Press reports. 

Anheuser-Busch spent $740,000 to lobby the federal government on agriculture, recycling, taxes and other issues,…

The Beer Institute, a Washington trade group for major brewers, used its recently-released annual report to tout its efforts to beat back excise taxes, cut down on underage drinking and self-regulate advertising and marketing.

Some highlights of the 28-page document:

• The group continues to…