For those people, the Siebel Institute of Technology will host the Professional Beer Tasting & Styles course on 4th and 5th February 2010. This two-day workshop gives participants a solid foundation of beer knowledge, with a special emphasis on beer styles and tasting. Designed and created by brewing historian and beer style expert Randy Mosher, students learn about the world of beer styles through presentations that include:

The fines, among the highest ever paid by individuals in a financial lawsuit in Brazil, stemmed from a complaint filed in 2004 by Previ, a large Latin American pension fund, against terms of the sale of AmBev to Belgium’s Interbrew and the takeover of Canadian brewer Labatt, the regulator said.

Constellation Brands said that a lawsuit, which Grupo Modelo had filed against Constellation in December 2009 over funding increased spending on promotion and marketing for Crown, won’t affect the joint venture.

Mexican brewer Grupo Modelo announced on 15 December 2009 that it is suing its partner Constellation Beers in a New York court in a dispute over marketing expenses.

MBAA and the American Society of Brewing Chemists (ASBC) will co-locate the MBAA Convention and ASBC Annual Meeting in 2010, creating Brewing Summit 2010. The Summit will run as follows

Already in November 2009, Pabst’s owner, the Kalmanovitz Charitable Foundation, based in California, hired Bank of America Merrill Lynch to find a buyer willing to pay around USD 300 million.

Like other Japanese beer companies, Suntory is scrambling to expand its overseas businesses to reduce its dependence on a shrinking domestic market.

Since October 2009, the company has seen sales of premium wines grow at a faster rate than cheaper "value" products, Chief Commercial Officer Jay Wright was reported as saying in November 2009.

In mid-November 2009 Mr Kent unveiled goals that call for the revenue generated by the company and its bottlers to double to roughly USD 200 billion by 2020, with profit margins increasing too.

In a statement Grupo Modelo reports that during the third quarter, total volume of beer sold reached 13.7 million hl, which represents a 3.2 percent increase compared with the same period last year. Volume in the domestic market totalled 9.4 million hl, which represents a 7.0 percent growth compared with the third quarter of 2008. Domestic brands were up 7.6 percent, benefitting from favourable weather during the quarter as well as the implementation of initiatives to improve execution in the market, the brewer says.