Union Beer Distributors of Brooklyn, New York, announced that Heady Topper from The Alchemist Brewery of Waterbury, Vermont, has arrived in New York City. Excitement for the beer has grown among beer aficionados waiting for it to arrive in the city.
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Starting June 1, consumers can buy alcohol in places other than state-run liquor stores, but will customers be able to swallow the new prices? State run stores currently mark up liquor about 52 percent. When Initiative 1183 takes effect, that percentage will be replaced by a standard 10-percent fee at distribution and two fees at the retail level, totaling 37 percent. But to make any profit, retailers and distributors will have to add their own markup. The state estimates the final markup could be between 52 and 72 percent, something that could cause buyers to stop reaching for the top shelf.
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The Virginia Department of Alcoholic Beverage control has a program to see whether alcohol retailers abide by the law and to crack down on businesses that sell to underage buyers. Between July 2009 and February 2012, the state conducted more than 9,700 underage buyer inspections. Thirteen percent of the time, retailers failed the inspection by selling to the underage buyer or committing another infraction, according to an analysis of the data by Capital News Service.
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Blue Moon Brewing Co. of Golden, Colorado, is kicking off an eight-market test this month for Farmhouse Red Ale. The beer, a hybrid of a Saison and a Belgian Red, “gets its red amber color and malty caramel taste from a unique combination of five malts. We then add white pepper and hibiscus for a subtle spice character, balanced with a pleasantly tart finish.” The test markets for the launch include: Atlanta, Columbus, Denver, Hartford, Minneapolis, Phoenix, Rochester and St. Louis.
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Virginia Governor Bob McDonnell has signed two pieces of legislation to support Virginia craft brewers. House Bill 359 allows manufacturers to lease space in their brewhouses to smaller-scale brewers and Senate Bill 604 allows retail sales of beer and sampling on the premises of Virginia breweries.
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Long ago, that late season sap in Vermont was used in a potent dark beer that offered some cool relief to farmers when the hay was cut in the heat of summer. Now, some local microbreweries are bringing the historic drink back from extinction.
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Three years ago, Boulder's Wild Goose Engineering was a four-person design, engineering, manufacturing and fabrication outfit with 12 years of experience in churning out products. Now, Wild Goose is nearly two-dozen people strong, fills out a 10,000-square-foot facility and is anticipating a 67 percent jump in annual revenues. Its boost came from a seemingly unlikely source: beer. Two-and-a-half years after fashioning a canning line for Boulder's Upslope Brewing Co., Wild Goose has jumped full bore in the beer business, developing manual and automatic canning lines for more than 20 craft breweries across the United States.
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More than 75 local restaurant owners and residents gathered in front of the Waltham, Massachusetts, City Council to oppose adding 15 new liquor licenses to the town’s existing 100. They said the change could lead to unfair business advantages, depreciate the value of existing licenses, and change the character of Waltham.
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According to the Wall Street Journal, Apple's suppliers will start producing screens measuring 4 inches diagonally, up from the 3.5 inches featured on the smartphone dating back to its 2007 debut.
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U.S. economic confidence for the week ending May 13 is -18, unchanged from the previous week, meaning Americans are maintaining a slightly more positive outlook on the U.S. economy than was recorded during April.
