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...Australians’ love of beer once fed the idea that it was a country where the “amber nectar” ruled supreme, from Paul Hogan’s Foster’s adverts to the often-told story of cricketer David Boon downing 52 cans...
...The gathering of this civilian elite appears to capture a moment: Captain Michiel de Wael, a brewer, is turning his glass upside down; a lieutenant squeezes lemon on his oyster....
...An amber ale inspired by his time in the UK, all it’s lacking for the authentic British experience is an accompanying packet of pork scratchings. Still, pizza fritta isn’t a bad substitute....
...In Italy, beers have historically been lumped into one of four categories: birra chiara — clear beer, lighter fizzy lagers such as Peroni; birra rossa, or red beers — these are amber-coloured drinks that...
...“Lager is a real test of the brewer’s art,” says Brown, “because it leaves the brewer nowhere to hide....
...There are also two bottle-conditioned “local” ales made with British ingredients: an aromatic English Pale with a mellow, malty bite, and a deep-amber Best Bitter....
...It is less enticing to those drenched in debt, even if their taste for the amber nectar has made them the world’s biggest brewer....
...Job moves Anheuser-Busch InBev, the world’s largest brewer, has named Fernando Tennenbaum its new chief financial officer....
...In Montgomery, Alabama, a state that did not wait for federal prohibition to go dry, a parched visitor combs the downtown for the best available alcohol until Common Bond Brewers appears like a brick mirage...
...(WSJ) News round-up WeWork founder raised $700m through share sales and loans (FT) Budweiser brewer explores asset sales after calling off Asia IPO (WSJ) Gannett in advanced talks to combine with GateHouse...
...UBREW is where London’s aspiring brewers come to flaunt their creativity....
...The responses are then interpreted by the algorithm and the findings are passed to the brewers, who tweak their recipes accordingly....
...Both the Taybeh and Birzeit breweries import raw material: Shepherds sources malt from the Czech Republic and hops for its amber ale from Kent in England....
...Seated in the amber-coloured Asahi Beer Tower in Tokyo – a giant beer jug of a building with a foam-like white roof alongside a huge Philippe Starck sculpture of a gold sud – Mr Izumiya, pictured below,...
...Companies ranging from brewer SABMiller to consumer group Unilever and babywear-and-buggy retailer Mothercare have been hit hard by the pound’s recent gains against many emerging mark currencies....
...In May, a new entity called Hawthorn Leisure emerged to buy 275 predominantly wet-led pubs from pub group and brewer Greene King....
...That leaves many European exporters to the US – such as the British makers of Old Speckled Hen, a popular amber ale – at a disadvantage, industry groups argue, and amounts to a trade barrier....
...Thursday’s first-half numbers show what impact the amber nectar has had on the group....
...Brazil’s second-biggest brewer made just R400m of ebitda last year, one-quarter less than initial targets....
...In 2010, the Brewers Association recorded some 1,716 American craft brewers in operation, a rise from 1,504 in 2008....
...For SAB to justify its proposed valuation metric of an EV:EBITDA multiple of 12.4 (based on June 2011 figures) for the Australian brewer, it would need to extract significant synergies....
...Prominent in one display is a beautiful illustrated edition of Edmund de Waal’s The Hare with Amber Eyes, on sale at the recommended retail price of £25....
...The brewers pitch tents on the grounds of the host Anderson Valley Brewery, cooking on grills and sharing their latest experimental beers....
...Last year, Japanese in aggregate downed half as much of the amber nectar as they did a decade ago....
...Australia’s recent tax rise on pre-mixed drinks has only reinforced the lure of the amber nectar....
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