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...It’s nice, it’s close to Adams so it’s easy to meet there for a beer. I’m still flattered that they keep carding me—I’m 24!” she says. “The day they stop carding me I’ll have to go out and get anti-wrinkle cream.” Martin says he’s also noticed that students here are often hard-pressed to find time to go out casually. “In Europe...
...owned baseball's record books and mythology for 50 years after his career ended. The legend was of a hardscrabble son of a saloonkeeper with a big heart who loved kids and was worshipped by his fans. Ruth was all of that, but he also set prodigious marks in beer guzzling and womanizing...
Oktoberfest began in 1810 as the wedding reception of Prince Ludwig of Bavaria and has evolved into an annual celebration of lager and lederhosen observed worldwide. Each year more Oktoberfests, as the beers in the classic Marzen style are known, become available in the States. And according to RICHARD SCHOLZ, owner of Bierkraft, a beer specialty store, U.S. brewers are making truer, more traditional Oktoberfests than their Teutonic counterparts. Scholz, New York City bartenders M.J. KEANE and RORY FARRELLY, and amateur microbrew aficionado MEGAN CLARK tasted 12 currently available brews and chose their favorites for TIME...
Foster's Group of Australia bought Napa-based Beringer Blass Wine Estates in 2000 for $1.5 billion, and for the first time last year, the quintessential global beer company sold more wine ($1.04 billion) than beer ($931.9 million). Allied Domecq of Britain, which already owned Clos du Bois in Napa as well as wineries in Argentina and New Zealand, last September paid $275 million for Spain's largest wine producer, Bodegas y Bebidas...
Canandaigua's parent, Constellation (which distributes Corona beer in the U.S. in partnership with Grupo Modelo), has also been on the acquisition trail. In 1999 it acquired Franciscan Estates in Napa, whose bottles sell for $20 and up. Franciscan added Ravenswood and Simi to its higher-end collection last year. Together they sold 2 million cases for $140 million in 2001. More acquisitions are likely for the Franciscan group and Canandaigua. "We will look around the world," says Constellation's CEO, Richard Sands. "An Australian acquisition, maybe, or Italian or Spanish...