| Calories Count Among spirits, calories per serving ranged from 86 calories for spiced rum to 120 calories for gin. The average was 98 calories per serving. For wines, calories per serving ranged from 105 calories for a merlot to 125 calories for a cabernet sauvignon. The average was 118 calories per serving; The greatest variation in calories occurred among beers and flavored malt beverages. Light beers averaged 100 calories per serving, regular beers averaged 140 calories per serving, and the flavored malt beverages ranged from 190 calories per serving to 241 calories. Variations were greatest when analyzing carbohydrate levels. Compared to no carbohydrates in spirits, wines ranged from 0.8 grams per serving for chardonnay to 5.0 grams per serving for cabernet sauvignon. Among different beers and malt beverages, carbohydrates ranged from 3.2 grams per serving for light beer to 38 grams per serving for a flavored malt beverage. Beck's Art It's the largest art commission undertaken for the public. The work of four artists will be displayed on 27 million bottles of Beck's beer. Beck's is moving its artist-label beers into mass production in partnership with the Royal College of Arts (RCA) in Kensington, West London. who selected the winning entries based on the theme of individuality. |
| Beer Mapping You may know exactly where your favorite bar or brewery is, but can you remember where all of the breweries across the state are located? Thanks to the power of Google maps and a custom made database, now you can zoom in and find all of the best beer destinations are all across your state and the rest of the world. The Beer Mapping Project is a website designed to help beer fans map out the locations of their favorite beer meccas: Breweries, Brewpubs, Beer Bars, Beer Stores and even Homebrew Stores. Handy links will guide you to your specific region. From there Google maps will allow you to d rag around the maps and zoom right to your favorite location. The different colored pushpin icons will help you identify the type and location of the brew spot you’re looking for. Don’t know where a great pub is? Check the attached scrolling list of destinations and click and the software will center your map directly on that spot. http://beermapping.com/ |
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| The InBev Story Anheuser-Busch has accepted InBev's takeover offer forming the largest beer company in the world. Ownership by InBev has a special meaning in the beer world. It's called the "Brazilian factor" and it's code for ruthless cost-cutting. The term comes from the fact that InBev is a Belgian beer company run by Brazilians, led by CEO Carlos Brito. InBev firmly believes that the best way to boost value is through margin improvement, which means they reduce expenses everywhere. Mr. Brito, who started AmBev in 1989 with a small team of Brazilian investment bankers and a single brewery, has no sympathy for breweries that are not running at full capacity. Additionally, the Brazilians like to distribute their own brands instead of relying on wholesalers to do the job for the InBev trumpets the use of "zero-based budgeting," where operating budgets revert to zero at the end of the financial year and have to be renegotiated anew, usually at lower levels. Employees say nothing is sacred. If electricity costs have to come down, management will even switch off cafeteria lights . Compare this corporate philosophy with Boston Beer's Jim Koch who is unveiling "Samuel Adams: Brewing the American Dream," an initiative with Accion USA, a nonprofit that assists small-business owners. Koch is offering small loans from a $250,000 fund to New England entrepreneurs working in the food and beverage industry. According to Koch, "we want to encourage and assist budding businesses in the same way we were helped when Boston Beer was just a crazy idea I had." |
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