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Microbrews accounted for only .03% of the 180 million bbl. of beer made in America last year, but sales are frothing. No one is more surprised than Fritz Maytag, scion of the washing-machine family, who in 1965 bought the Anchor Steam Beer Brewing Co. of San Francisco and went on to earn the title "the father of microbrewing." Says Maytag: "I'm just bamboozled. It's astonishing to see the number of breweries and brands that we started." That number increased from twelve microbreweries and brew pubs in North America in 1983 to 96 this year. In Boston last...
...Desire's excesses--of emotion, of irony, of guts--are entertaining but ultimately messy. The end of the movie is a strange brew--part cop show, part overblown tragedy and part comedy...
...their jobs to protest a proposed labor contract. Lately, a new Coors marketing push in the Northeast has been stymied by the campaign. At such lucrative beer-drinking venues as New York City's Shea Stadium and Boston's Fenway Park, vendors had refused to sell the boycotted brew...
...astounding growth of Corona Extra beer, a Mexico City brew with a cult following that has made it the No. 2 imported brand in the U.S., apparently has provoked envious wholesalers of rival brands to resort to some below-the- beer-belly tactics. Last week one of Corona's U.S. importers, Barton Beers, revealed that suds fans in the West and Midwest have been shaken by a rumor that the brand is contaminated with urine. Barton's managers thought they had stopped up the source of the malicious tale last month, when they settled a suit against a Reno-based...
...Meter Hurdles--1. Kate Brew, Dartmouth, 1:01.01; 2. Tracey Charles, Penn, 1:02.03; 3. Heidi Waterfield, Yale, 1:02.15; 7. Nancy Lutz, Harvard, 1:06.23; 8. Patty Min, Harvard...