| Coors Fuel One answer to lessening our dependence on foreign fuel imports might be hiding in a Coors six-pack. The Coors brewery in Golden, Colo., is using beer waste to process nealry 2 million gallons a year of the gas substitute, ethanol. According to a Coors spokesperson, "we have taken a waste stream and turned it into a revenue stream." The program has been so successful that Coors is now building a second plant just to expand the process. This plant will gather millions of gallons of spilled beer and put it directly into the ethanol making process via an underground pipeline. The ethanol is made in a maze of stainless steel pipes in much the same way as whisky is distilled. Bitter Over Guinness The makers of Guinness stout are about to alter their famous drink and put out a collection of new tastes in a collection of "limited-edition" stouts. The first drink, Guiness Brew 39, is now being poured in Ireland where most pub partons have refused to even try it. Traditional Guinness is currently brewed in 51 countries and sold in 159 different nations. |
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| Bud Boycott in St. Louis Many beer drinkers in St. Louis, the famed home of Budweiser, are boycotting the brew in the name of union solidarity. Teamsters, on strike against an Anheuser-Busch distributor, are ugring all people in St. Louis to stay away from the home town beer and some are doing just that. A-B management has tried to stay above the fray saying that the distributor in question is actually an independent contractor. However, to counter the union bringing them into the picture, A-B attorneys filed a complaint with the National Labor Relations Board charging that the Teamsters boycott is illegal. The boycott organizers are urging Bud drinkers to switch to Miller. Miller spokesman Peter Marino said "If people in St. Louis have the opportunity to try our productions they will realize that our beer does indeed taste better." --------------------- Follow Beer Mat Directions or Else! The British government has decided to use beer mats as part of a multi-media campaign to get millions of dollars of unpaid fines collected. The campaign will place over 750,000 beer mats in 750 pubs across five major metropoiltan areas that carry the slogan "Think You'll Get Away With It? Think Again." According to government officials, "those who seek to drown their sorrows in the pub will now face an instant reminder of their transgressions." In the second phase of the campaign offenders will receive letters warning that unpaid findes can be deducted from wages and that their car can be impounded. |
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