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my notes from yesterday's beer column on cbc radio one's on the coast with stephen quinn: 2015 marks the 80 th anniversary of the beer can.    Beer cans have survived market ups and downs, and waxing and waning popularity for 80 years now.   Now they are experiencing a boom along with craft beer. Although macro breweries, which use a lot of cans, are experiencing a decline in market share more craft brewers are embracing the can as an economical and advantageous way of packaging beer for the public. While it is always preferable to drink fresh beer, that is not always possible.   Bottling has been around for much longer than canning and is often thought of as the best way to package beer.   There’s a sort of snobbery around bottles – that somehow they are a classier way to package beverages.   From a craft beer stand point you shouldn’t be drinking the beer out of a can or a bottle, you should be pouring it into a clean glass so that you can full...

the 25 best new beers in america according to those people who know their smut, maxim magazine (from the february 2010 issue - i'm a bit behind in my smut) butternuts beer & ale - porkslap pale ale widmer brothers - drifter pale ale great divide brewing - hoss rye lager new belgium - hoptober golden ale victory - helios ale oskar blues - ten fidy imperial stout pyramid - haywire hefeweizen boston beer co. - samuel adams noble pils sierra nevada - torpedo extra ipa clipper city - marzhon anheuser-busch - bud light wheat 21st amendment - brew free or die ipa dogfish head - indian brown ale northcoast brewing - old stock ale foothills brewing - sexual chocolate imperial stout deschutes - green lakes organic ale upslope brewery - upslope pale ale intercourse brewing - blue ball porter ballast point - calico amber ale new glarus - fat squirrel brown ale brooklyn brewery - local 1 pale ale barley brown's - tumble off pale ale firestone walker - union ja...

stolen from npr : Changing Tastes Drive Shift In Beer Sales by Wendy Kaufman "Americans drink a lot of beer during the summer. But beer drinking habits are changing. People are drinking less and drinking differently. Sales of some of the big-name brands are down, and the major brewers are fighting back with big marketing campaigns. At The Spot Off Main in Bellevue, Wash. — a neighborhood place for billiards and beer — the No. 1 selling U.S. brand, Bud Light, is on tap. But assistant manager John Stevens says his bartenders are pouring less of it than they used to. "Everyone's budget went down. That includes their entertainment dollars when they go out to drink in bars," he says. A lot of young men — some of beer's biggest fans — have lost their jobs in the down economy. And some are skipping bars altogether in favor of drinking at home. But those sales, at least of the premium and high-profit brands, are also down. Last year, the Beer Institute repor...