BEER TRAVELERS

Anheuser-Busch won’t be trademarking Bud Pong after all. The company announced it is ending the promotion.
Nothing to add after yesterday’s post.

Washington, DC has had this law on its books since 1998 that any driver can be arrested for DUI with as little as .01 BAC, if in the judgment of the officer the driver appears intoxicated.
Yesterday they eased that stance, voting 9-3 for legislation under which drivers with less than .05 blood alcohol would be […]

Beer Pong has little to do with the beers, or really the beer culture, that we usually discuss here, but in this case it seems necessary to ask: What were they thinking?
Beer Pong was already around before Anheuser-Busch rolled out Bud Pong this summer. In fact, a town on the New Jersey shore banned playing […]

Norwegians pay more for their beer than their cousins in the other Nordic countries. Norwegian beer is twice as expensive as Danish beer, even when state taxes have been deducted.
In case you are curious, it appears the top-rated Norwegian beer at Ratebeer.com is Nøgne Ø # 100 (Batch 100).

A Maryland couple has acquired the marketing rights to Mr. Boh, the grinning, winking mascot of National Bohemian beer, or “Natty Boh.”
National Bohemian beer was last brewed in Maryland in 1996 - Pabst Brewing owns the rights to the brand, which is actually brewed by Miller - but many in a area an between Washington, […]

The National Wine Marketing Conference slated for Nov. 8-10 in northeast Ohio is called “License to Steal.”
Who thought up that title? The web site explains, “As its name suggests, the primary goal of the conference is to provide a forum for attendees to share their best public relations, advertising, promotional and marketing ideas. Participants will […]

This is the sort of “cross over” attention that boosts interest in better beer, and ultimately should increase our access to it:
Stephen Beaumont (of World of Beer) educates the readers of Paste magazine about Trappist beers.
A music magazine published out of Georgia, Paste has found a growing audience. From Paste’s “About” page: “We pride ourselves […]