One of my heroes is the late great comedian Bill Hicks who died nearly 20 years ago just as his career was about to really take off at the age of 32 from pancreatic cancer. Among an extensive body of excellent work, he did a sketch about George Bush Senior waiting until he was out [...]
Posts Tagged ‘heineken’
Pubpaper 692 – Homogeneous Beers, and brewing for the wrong motivations
Posted: 17th January 2013 by santobugtio in Pub Paper, WritingTags: budweiser, duty, heineken, john smiths, trademark
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Pubpaper 658 – Small Dogs and Brewsters v Big Buillies and Lawyers
Posted: 17th May 2012 by santobugtio in Pub Paper, WritingTags: Brewdog, diageo, heineken, Hops, inbev, mallinsons, real ale, stella
In the world of brewing there a 3 broad camps in which a brewery can fall into, multinationals like InBev and Heineken, large national brewers like Greene King, Marsons, Black Sheep and Wells, and then you have smaller operations, brewers like York Brewery, Mallinsons, Magic Rock and Thornbridge. Brewdog just make this last category, but [...]
Pubpaper 656 – The Great Olympic Beer Stitch Up
Posted: 7th May 2012 by santobugtio in Pub Paper, WritingTags: cardiff, heineken, john smith, olympics, strongbow, wembley
A few weeks ago, one of the top beer writers Roger Protz covered the fact that Heineken have sole beer rights at Olympic venues, however they only went in as a third tier sponsor limiting them to having only one named product,in this case their namesake lager Heineken. In addition to this they can provide [...]
Pubpaper 621 – Brewdog Issue, Buyouts and Schooners
Posted: 25th August 2011 by admin in Pub Paper, WritingTags: brew dog, fosters, heineken, japan, kirin ichiban, SAB Miller, sapporo, schooner, wells and young
A few weeks ago I mentioned that BrewDog were taking a second stab at raising funds for expansion via their “Equity for Punks” share issue. Last time round in 2009 they only achieved a third of what they required, however this issue is going a lot better and they have already raised £1m towards their [...]
Pubpaper 616 – Small Brewery Fun and French Spirit
Posted: 21st July 2011 by admin in Pub Paper, WritingTags: bombadier, brew dog, calvados, heineken, real ale, splitting feathers
As regular readers will know I am a huge fan of the beers produced by Brew Dog based near Aberdeen. Their Punk IPA, 5am Saint and Hardcore IPA are all excellent beers, although you have to be a serious hop head to really enjoy the Hardcore at 9.2%. Although the brewery is only 4 years [...]