With the economy rearranging spending priorities, we periodically ask: Is the beer industry immune to the recession? We have certainly seen a lot of resilience in the industry over the past few months. As wags tell us, people drink when…

The Wall Street Journal is reporting that London-based SABMiller, the world’s second largest brewer,  posted flat sales volume in its fiscal first quarter. The economic downturn hampered consumer demand, particularly in Eastern Europe.

SABMiller said its core lager volume, which strips out the…

We are freshly shaved and scrubbed for our latest run on CNBC Reports tonight. If you find yourself on the couch at 7:45 St. Louis time, cold brewski in hand, you can catch us and other ink-stained print reporters discussing President…

With all the talk about economic woe and want over the past few months, it was a little hard to predict whether beer sales would hold up. We know, we know: People drink when they’re happy, and they drink when…

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…