Word: malted
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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Many companies have introduced competitors based on other alcoholic beverages. Detroit's Stroh Brewery produces White Mountain, a cooler made from malt and flavorings. Champale makes a similarly derived cooler in pineapple- coconut and three other varieties. The crowding has already produced the beginnings of a shake-out, which prompted Coors brewery to yank its Colorado Chiller off the market last February...
...government unit that monitors radiation reported that "it is perfectly safe to drink milk or tap water, and there is no need to take iodine tablets." Still, whiskymakers in Scotland fretted that concerns about radioactive water could damage sales. Said Alan Rutherford, a water-research officer for Scottish malt distillers: "We take water from lochs and streams and reservoirs as well as springs, but we are watching the levels carefully and think there is no need for concern...
Sometimes the chief is the culprit. Chairman Terence Fox of Iroquois Brands, the Greenwich, Conn.-based maker of Champale malt liquor, was arrested in November after being discovered in a hotel room with $8,000 worth of cocaine. Last year Miller Brewing filed a $19 million civil suit against Robert Landau Associates, a New York City sports-promotion firm that had gone into bankruptcy proceedings in 1984. The brewer, a former client of Landau Associates, charged that President Robert Landau spent $2 million of Miller's promotional money on cocaine, racehorses and other personal expenses. Landau has denied the allegations...
...national standards within Western Europe alone forces Philips, the Dutch electronics company, to manufacture 29 types of electrical outlets, ten kinds of plugs and twelve varieties of cords. West Germany has a law dating from 1516 that prohibits the sale of beer made from anything but pure water, malt, yeast and hops. The rule originally gave Germans protection from adulteration, but now it serves mainly to keep out foreign beers, like Heineken and Carlsberg, that contain other grains or preservatives...
...MARTY'S JOURNEY back in history leaves ample time for the usual assortment of anachronism jokes. While visiting his dad's malt shop, Marty asks for a Tab. When the counterman replies that he can't give him a tab until he orders something, Marty asks for a Pepsi Free. The counterman, now somewhat exasperated, tells him that there is no way he can have a Pepsi, free...