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Oxygen kills beer. One part per million of [O.sub.2] is enough to skunk up your favorite brew, which is why glass and aluminum are the prime containers of beer and [...]

If you're a city dweller, this has probably happened to you: You're about to cross a busy intersection when you hear a loud whistle or a wild 'Yelp!' You stop [...]

* Most of the beer brewed in this country is pasteurized. * PET bottles cannot withstand the heat of pasteurization. * Multi-layer bottles can stand the heat, but they're expensive [...]

The name says it all: The folks at Rogue Ales have a twinkle in their eye when they do business, and this boils down to the beers they brew, how [...]

In a city that's all about nightlife, marketers seized the day to show off the brands they're hoping will be the next to rule the nocturnal scene. And while beer, [...]

With many craft brewers choosing to sell their beer in cans these days, glass maker Owens-Illinois (O-I) commissioned a study to find out which package type consumers really prefer. The [...]

Visit a handful of craft breweries and at Least a couple of them will have a barrel room (or small corner) with stacks of fine cooperage-often bourbon barrels from some [...]

'We see opportunity for continued growth in specialty (anything other than standard 12-ounce) can sizes. These cans give brand owners the opportunity to provide the right size for the occasion, [...]

Anheuser-Busch and the Environment Norman Nieder, group director of Anheuser-Busch's packaging technology group and a vice president of the National Beverage Packaging Association, delivered a paper to the 1990 Scrap [...]

[ILLUSTRATION OMITTED] In April, MillerCoors launched its latest packaging innovation--a Vented Wide Mouth Can--for its Coors Light brand. The industry's first can with a built-in vent, it also has a [...]

At first it was just a joke,' says Marty Jones, a spokesman for Oskar Blues Cajun Grill & Brewery, recalling the Lyons, CO-based brewpub's 2002 decision to begin canning some [...]

WHAT: Aluminum-based cans WHERE: Now, even south of the border WHY it's a Hit: Beer in an aluminum can, it's hardly a novel idea. But put beer in an 'aluminum [...]

Anheuser-Busch expects to cut manufacturing costs at its Fort Collins, Colorado brewery thanks to the opening this month of a new Owens-Illinois (O-I) glass bottle manufacturing plant right nearby, in [...]

A hundred and forty years after the last cannon fired across the battlefield at Gettysburg, Shipyard Brewing Company (Portland, MA, USA) brewed up a piece of Civil War history beer [...]

For most American consumers, ordering a cerveza south of the border means the bartender at the beach resort will hand over a bottle of pale lager with a lime wedge [...]

Nearly 100 years ago, Germans and Czechs settling in the tiny Texas town of Shiner couldn't find a beer that satisfied their Old World tastes. So, they started their own [...]

The Gambrinus Company Design: Sibley Peteet Design (Dallas, TX) Category: Beers Hefeweizen, a yeasty ale that tends to settle, needed a label to convey that the contents would need to [...]

'The Fridge Pack is clearly the most significant packaging innovation in the Coke system since the contour bottle,' describes Lauren Steele of Coke Consolidated, the bottler that has spearheaded US [...]

Put your hand on my shoulders, sing Michelob and Michelob Light. Anheuser-Busch's upscale pair hope to feel many palms reaching for them in their new sloped shoulder bottles, part of [...]

Scheduling Software Satisfies Packaging and Shipping Demands at Coors Packaging beer into 406 different types of containers at a rate of up to 17 million barrels a year could be [...]

Heineken has boosted the capacity of its brewery bottling plant in Marseilles, France, by using Mead Packaging's new servo-driven multipack machines. Duodozen 1250 beverage packaging machines produce fully enclosed packs and Cluster-Pak 850 machines can pack four different kinds of bottles. The Mead multipack systems feature a computer-controlled servo motor design which enable them to considerably reduce the multipack changeover time compared to shaft-driven packaging machines., When Mead Packaging introduced its Cluster-Pak 850 at the 1993 edition of Drinktec Interbrau, beverage operations expert John Peter Koss was, to say the least, duly impressed. After a deep [...]

Oxygen may be your lungs' best friend, but in packaged wine or beer [O.sub.2] is oh-too unwelcome. Monterey Vineyard in Gonzales, CA - founded in 1975 - produces about 650,000. [...]

Stroh has given a new shading to Old Milwaukee Light, changing its graphics to blue and silver so the brand 'takes on the look associated with today's light beer.' Besides [...]

Georgia-Pacific's Containerboard & Packaging Division fancies itself in the problem-solving business. The Atlanta-based supplier recently considered this problem: 'In Pennsylvania, state law dictates that off-premise beer can be sold only [...]

Cold filtered 'packaged draft' beer has special quality assurance needs during the packaging phase of operations. This type of beer is cold filtered, usually to a 0.45 micron level, and then packaged under highly sanitized conditions, making it shelf-stable and not in need of refrigeration. A summary of quality control steps required to produce cold filtered beer, from filter sanitation to conveyor systems, is included., Since 1986 the growth of cold filtered 'packaged draft' beer has been dramatic, with almost two billion cans and bottles of the brew consumed in 1990. This increased production and [...]

Playing to the brand's strength, Wisdom Import Sales is introducing a paperboard 12-pack for 12-ounce cans of Tecate. the Irvine, CA-based company calls the Mexican beer 'America's No. 1-selling beer [...]