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| Losers At Labatts free beer allotment for Labatt brewery retirees — which was part of the workers' pension benefit package for more than five decades — will soon go flat. Labatt has announced the long-standing perk will be phased out by Jan.1, 2019 because it's too expensive. But workers call the cut petty when compared to the company's ballooning revenues. Labatt said the allotment for existing retirees would be cut in half in 2018 and cut off completely in 2019. Labatt, a formerly Canadian beermaker, is now owned by Belgium-based global super- producer Anheuser-Busch InBev. That's a publicly traded company that owns more than 400 beer brands worldwide and reported $55 billion in revenue in 2015 alone. The union said a modest weekly allotment of free beer has been a perk of working at the Edmonton brewery since plans to open the facility were announced in 1962. As part of the local union contract in Edmonton, each current employee gets a Labatt gift card loaded with the equivalent cost of 52 cases of 12 beers (one case per week). On retirement, that allotment continued for life — and then some. After a Labatt pensioner died, their spouse was then entitled to the same yearly free beer card. Things started to change after Labatt first sold to a foreign company in the 1990s. Starting in 2010, new hires saw a $10 drop in wages. The new starting wage was $24/hour, compared to $34/hour for workers hired previously. New employees also have to pay into their own pension. |
| You don't say..... . 2016 was a record year for United States hop growers with more acres in production than at any other time in the country's history ------------------------- Beer is a perishable foodstuff, same as anything else. It won’t make one ill to drink “stale” beer, but it does degrade over time, and generally should be consumed fresh --------------------- A recent Nielsen study that found 58% of American craft beer drinkers crave more flavor options and 65% said they are drinking more craft beer because it offers more variety. ------------------------------ A hitchhiker has completed a challenge to travel 5,000 miles from the UK to India using only beer in exchange for rides and accommodation. Manny Marshall, from Raw Safari, has reachedl New Delhi after setting off from Edinburgh armed with cans of Innis & Gunn’s IPA beer as his currency, sharing them with strangers along the way. --------------- Kansas, Utah, Minnesota are the only states still banning full-strength beer sales at food markets. Only 3.2% beer can be sold there. Sorry folks. ---------------- Small Town Brewery's “Not Your Father’s Root Beer” product notched more than $104 million in off-premise sales. But sales in 2016; are down an astonishing 75 percent over the last half of the year. |
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| Zeca Palomino “Whiskey and Beer are a man’s worst enemies but the man that runs away from his enemies is a coward!” Charles Papazian Buy a man a beer, and he wastes an hour. Teach a man to brew, and he wastes a lifetime.” Michael Still "Women and drink. Too much of either can drive you to the other” |
| Paracelsus, Greek physician "A little bit of beer is divine medicine." Ernest Hemingway ""It was a natural as eating and to me as necessary, and I would not have thought of eating a meal without drinking beer." Joe E. Lewis "I went on a diet, swore off drinking and heavy eating, and in fourteen days I lost two weeks." |
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