Nov

24
'09

Beer news from B94, Gilac, Maltus Faber and Beba breweries

Malagrika1It’s getting easier to keep oneself up-to-date to Italian beer news, thanks to breweries’ press offices and so many passionate beer bloggers all over the peninsula.

Something is happening in south-Italy, where many breweries opened in the last couple of year. B94, set up almost two years ago in Apulia, near Lecce, presented two new beers, in addition to the three they keep producing since their first appearance.

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Oct

28
'09

On beasts, monsters and monstruosity…

The Vermonster label

The Vermonster label

It’s impossibile, for those accustomed to reading International beer blogs, to have missed the Rock Art Brewery Vs. Hansen’s Beverage affair. A quite weird question indeed. The multinational company have sued the little Vermont brewery for a supposed coincidence of names: a barley wine named The Vermonster, brewed by Rock Art and the Monster energy-drink produced by Hansen’s Beverage, a subsidiary of Anheuser-Busch.

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