The former Anheuser-Busch CEO August Busch IV is under investigation after appearing “too intoxicated to take off” hours after a helicopter landed in an office park near St Louis, US media reported on 13 July 2017.

Rather than spend big money on modernising its existing brewery in Montreal, Canada’s number two brewer Molson Coors has announced it will build a brand new brewery in the greater Montreal region, media reported on 5 July 2017.

One of Austin’s first craft beer makers, Celis Brewery, is back again, serving its Belgian-style wit beer. What’s more, the brewery is staying in the family, under the command of founder Pierre Celis’ daughter, Christine. A grand opening was scheduled for 11 July 2017.

The news that the internet retailer Amazon was to buy the supermarket chain Whole Foods and its 460+ stores for nearly USD 14 billion made big waves in June 2017.

Club ties, school ties, even signet rings bearing a mark, crest, motif or symbol, are bog-standard insignia indicating membership in an exclusive club. They have been around like forever.

As the scandal of AB-InBev secretly buying into RateBeer continues to spread, a statistician took a long hard look at how RateBeer arrives at its Brewer Rating. Guess what did he find? The statistics seem to be suspect.

Brewers seem to believe that summer makes us feel nostalgic: that previous summers were always better than the one happening now. The memories are really fun to talk about. But now we can stop sharing memories. We can go and buy the real thing.

Aha! Is this the first step towards the much discussed closer cooperation between Heineken and Molson Coors, at least in the US? In early June 2017, Molson Coors announced that it signed a 10-year import deal which allows the number two brewer in the US to import, market and distribute the Heineken-owned Mexican beer brand Sol, beginning this autumn.

Keep It Real but Keep It Afloat

America now has more breweries than ever. And that might be a problem. New arrivals, riding the craft beer wave, are clogging beer shelves and eating into the sales of legacy brands. Alarmists have declared a state of emergency: a shakeout looms large. Or does it?

The global yeast technology company Renaissance BioScience Corp. (RBSC) announced on 6 June 2017 that it will receive a multi-year, non-repayable contribution of up to CAD 500,000 from the National Research Council of Canada Industrial Research Assistance Program (NRC-IRAP). The funding will support the company’s ongoing research and development efforts through the advancement of its proprietary, non-genetically modified organisms (non-GMO) yeast strain development platform.