Tag: beer

  • Big Beer

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    Brendan Barry
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    A few weeks back, a good friend of mine sent me this graphic from Statista that detailed the global beer industry. It showed how many of the world’s biggest brands are, in fact, owned by just a few of the biggest companies. This isn’t exactly news to either my friend or me, because we both…

  • Boston Beer Company

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    Boston Beer Company is the parent company of Sam Adams, which is definitely one of those beers I imbibe when I visit Boston. But, as one of the larger craft brewers in the United States, it finds itself under immense competition. This article from Bloomberg examines the situation the brewery finds itself in from a share…

  • America’s Most Popular Beers—And Almost All Are Crappy

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    Brendan Barry
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    Or so says Adweek. I would heartily disagree about their inclusion of Yuengling in their group of crappy. Though the other nineteen, yeah, I would tend to agree. Regardless, the infographic that sparked the Adweek post is quite blah. I do enjoy the illustrations of the bottles and labels, but the data visualisation below is…

  • Ballpark Beer

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    This evening I am going to be taking in a game at Fenway. So I leave you with today’s blog post comparing beer at different ballparks. Credit for the piece goes to Kevin Schaul, Kelyn Soong, and Dan Steinberg

  • Periodic Table of Beer Styles

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    Today’s post comes via a friend and is about beer. What else do you need for a Friday post? Here’s one of the several versions of the chart. It appears to have been based off an original design, but now variations of the re-interpretation are floating around the internet. More importantly though, I’m a whisky…

  • The Politics of Beer

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    This Friday at Happy Hour as you sip your pint, are you going to wonder what your beer choice says about your politics? Okay, probably not. But you could. And if you did, this chart from the National Journal would help you identify just what your drink is saying. Is your favourite on the chart?…