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Anheuser-Busch and PepsiCo, two of the world’s biggest beverage companies, have agreed to jointly purchase certain goods and services in the U.S, such as information technology hardware, office supplies, travel and facilities services, transportation, and maintenance…

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To misquote the U.S. Postal Service, neither rain, nor snow, nor sleet, nor hail shall keep beers from their appointed price increases.

That’s the lesson from the…

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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…

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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Get the sense that prices on your favorite beers are inching ever higher, even as the economy pinches your personal holdings?

Good news! You are NOT crazy. Beer prices are, in fact, going up on average.

Beer’s…

To blatantly rip off the Postal Service’s motto, it would appear that neither rain, nor sleet, nor hail nor economic malaise can slow the rise of beer prices. Brewers have to be happy about this. Are drinkers? We’re not even…

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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…