Marin Institute, a longtime critic of the alcohol industry, dropped a “bombshell” report this week criticizing Anheuser-Busch and MillerCoors, the two largest brewers in the U.S. The report called beer “the most widely used drug in America” and urged the Obama…

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The bad times continue for imported beer, those fancy, (generally) expensive brews from places like Mexico, the Netherlands and Germany.

The Washington-based Beer Institute released figures showing that imported beer shipments were down more than 8 percent in July,…

Most top global brewers are selling less beer these days. But the big companies’ share prices have mostly gone up in recent months. What gives?

Trade publication Beer Marketer’s Insights has an interesting item on this odd dynamic. Global brewers’ revenues and…

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This is for any Lager Heads readers who missed our story in the Post-Dispatch on Sunday. We wanted to know: Where is August Busch IV, the former CEO of Anheuser-Busch? Ever since InBev took over Anheuser-Busch, Busch has been flying…

Reporter’s note: This is for all you lager heads out there who didn’t see the St. Louis Post-Dispatch on Sunday. Enjoy!

After word leaked out recently that Anheuser-Busch was getting ready to test-market a new beer called Select 55 - billed as “the world’s…

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Anheuser-Busch is planning a marketing blitz behind Bud Light for the rest of the summer to counter a decline in the biggest U.S. beer brand.

Beginning this month, spending to support…

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We’ve got a little more perspective to flesh out our story about how Natural Light’s advertising has gone national, hitting cable channels like Comedy Central, Spike and Versus that attract that all-important young male demographic.

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Lager Heads had an excellent Fourth of July. Good company, good fireworks, and all that jazz. But if we were responsible for selling beer, we might not have been so relaxed and happy.

This was a pretty…

Lager Heads usually leaves beer tastings to more expert palates, such as those belonging to our Post-Dispatch colleagues Tim Townsend or Adam Jadhav.

But occasionally we like to jump into the game ourselves. The story below, the result of a recent foray into…

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Sure, they’re a little arcane and obscure, those closed-door negotiations in the U.S. Congress over how to pay for a proposed health care overhaul. But you can bet that the beer industry is paying attention.…