Misc News

Winetree and Jack Frey get ink in the Evansvile Courier & Press.

Top Ten Signs that you're the Wife of a Beer Geek. It could be worse for women. Say for instance in Malaysia where a woman was fined $1,400 and six cane strokes for drinking beer. Oh, her boyfriend and the waitress also got six lashes. article.

Inc Magazine has a long article: The Way I Work: Dogfish Head's Sam Calagione.

Do you have your 58-page Brewers Association Draft Beer Quality Manual?

Many areas of Great Britain use a Pubwatch scheme for two reasons. 1) They can laugh at the logo. 2) Anyone banned from one pub is effectively banned from all pubs in the immediate area. Now it's questioned whether a banned person should be able to get the courts involved. Crucial pubwatch decision on hold

12 people have been arrested in England for their part in scrapping £9million worth of steel kegs. article

Japan's giant, Kirin, has started talks to take over Suntory. Kirin also owns about half of Lion Nathan in Australia and San Miguel in the Philippines as well as being the Pepsi bottler in Japan.