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Is beer recession-resistant? Of course it is!

Well, at least that was the general consensus at a recent Syracuse, N.Y. beer festival. According to ABC News blogger Matthew Nojiri, more than 5,000 people packed into Syracuse’s Clinton…

St. Louis Brewery Inc., maker of Schlafly beer, made its debut on the Brewers Association’s list of the top 50 American craft brewers. The list (see it here) from the Colorado-based trade group ranks independent breweries by liquid sold. The Schlafly folks…

Citizens of Missouri and Illinois have plenty of pride for their respective home states. And with reason. Missouri gave us Harry Truman and toasted ravioli. Illinois gave us Abraham Lincoln and deep dish pizza.

Alas, neither state has much to brag about when it comes…

The Portland Business Journal digs up an interesting story on the rough road traveled by a Northwestern brewing group of which Anheuser-Busch InBev owns more than a third. The Craft Brewers Alliance, formed last year by a merger between Redhook and Widmer Brothers,…

Anthony Nanney, Brian Owens, and Dawn Obrecht work together at the bottling machine as they fill, cap, and package bottles of Pumpkin Beer at the O

O’Fallon Brewery (from the Missouri city of the same name) is coming on strong. The company’s…

Shameless plug alert: Check out Lager Heads‘ latest contribution to the St. Louis Post-Dispatch: A quick-hit story on the impressive growth of St. Louis Brewery Inc., the maker of Schlafly beer. The company is ratcheting up its beer-making capacity at…

Aaah, a success story in these uncertain times. Today’s news comes to us courtesy of the Brewers Association, the Boulder, Colo.-based trade group for craft brewers.

Apparently, sales of American craft beer are growing even faster overseas than in the U.S.…

Lager Heads always enjoys swinging by the Schlafly Bottleworks in Maplewood. The folks are nice, there are pool tables, and the staffers give good tours of the little brewery.

We stopped by on Friday to check on all the changes that Bottleworks and…

We almost never do beer reviews on Lager Heads. But we had a blast down at the Anheuser-Busch brewery over the past week, meeting brewmasters, Clydesdale handlers and top executives. (Shameless plug alert: The St. Louis Post-Dispatch should have several of our…

Independent craft breweries increased their beer sales last year even as their costs shot higher and big multinational brewers joined forces.

Given the amount of wrenching change in the beer industry last year — including the formation of MillerCoors and Anheuser-Busch InBev…