The combined U.S. operations of SABMiller and Molson Coors Brewing with brands such as Miller Lite and Coors Light, said underlying net income in the October-December 2009 quarter was USD 106.1 million with net sales dipping 1.6 percent to USD 1.71 billion.

Paris Hilton stars in Brazil in an advertising campaign by Schincariol. The brewer is launching a new product called “Devassa Bem Loura”. Devassa, a lager microbrewery, originally from Rio de Janeiro, was bought by the privately-owned Schincariol Group in 2007.

For those looking for training that will take them from little-to-no knowledge of draught to complete understanding of the technology, the 4-day Siebel Draught Master Programme (22 – 25 March 2010 in Golden, Colorado) will build knowledge through extensive and in-depth content.

Punters looking for exotic beers at the Whopper Bar will be disappointed. Burger King is starting out with selling domestic brands like Miller and Budweiser and will consider other beers down the road.

The finance minister said the proceeds from these tax increases will go to finance rising spending in health coverage in 2010 and beyond, so the effect on the government’s budget deficit will be neutral.

Tesco, the world’s number three retailer, opened its first U.S. Fresh & Easy convenience store in 2007 amid much speculation whether it would make it on the U.S. market.

Keith Lemcke of the Siebel Institute says that they have been watching the interest in small-scale commercial distilling grow over the last decade or so and noticed that in the last couple of years that interest seems to be accelerating.

Mr Hickenlooper moved to Colorado almost 30 years ago to work as a geologist. After getting laid off during the 1980s oil bust, he and several partners opened the Wynkoop brewpub in downtown Denver, thus kicking off the revival – some say gentrification – of Denver’s dilapidated city centre which today is a booming business and residential area.

You have to give it to Peru’s Ajegroup: its owners waste no time. When their plans to build a brewery in Mexico were thwarted by Mexico’s duopoly brewers FEMSA and Grupo Modelo pulling strings, they changed their minds quickly and set up a 300,000 hl brewery in their homeland of Peru instead.

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: