Beer

The Winchester is situated between the 1930s-built former water board offices, now home to social services, and the Castle Hotel. Only three years old, the Winchester is the brewery tap for the local Rhymney Brewery, based on the Pant Industrial Estate, Dowlais. The new Rhymney Brewery was established in 2005, using the name of a brewery that was once famous throughout South Wales before being closed by Whitbread in 1978.  

In 1936, the East Sheen Lawn Tennis Club complained to the London brewery, Watneys, that its beer was not keeping until the weekend, when most of its customers came in. Watneys, which had been working on a prototype beer called Red Barrel intended for troops in India, swiftly redirected it to the less exotic surroundings of leafy Surrey. Red Barrel was a new type of beer: keg.  

This is going to take you out of your comfort zone a.k.a. the Hopkins bubble and the Towson Mall. However, it will be worth it. For a measly $55 you can enjoy an intoxicating and arousing good time at the Timonium Fair Grounds on Friday, Nov. 20.  

Elizabethton/Carter County Chamber of Commerce Executive Director Candy Craig on Thursday told members of the organization's board of directors that the Octoberfest debut last month was a success. "We made $900 off Octoberfest, which was delightful, because we did not have any major sponsors," Craig said. "Tourism sponsored us $500 this year for a new festival, to help us get that going...We had a good turnout. We filled the streets."  

Last week , Pyramid's Haywire Hefeweizen proved a tad, shall we say, underwhelming. This week seemed a perfect opportunity to try a couple of macro-brewed attempts at craft-brew styles, just to put things in perspective. After all, if a relatively small outfit like Pyramid can't get the wheat-beer style right, surely a lowest-common-denominator, masses-pleasing corporate behemoth like Anheuser-Busch couldn't do a better job, could it?  

BBDO Worldwide was the most awarded agency network in 2009, according to The Gunn Report. The Omnicom-owned organization topped the annual tally of awards show performances for the fourth year in a row with award-winning work this year from 27 BBDO offices, including Almap BBDO, Sao Paulo, Brazil, which ranked second for most awarded agency and fifth for most awarded interactive agency. Contributing to the rankings were two campaigns from the network that topped the print category: Chrysler ...  

Plano, Texas--Men, consider yourself warned: J.C. Penney Co. Inc.'s award-winning "Beware of the Doghouse" viral marketing campaign is back for a second holiday season. According to a release from the Plano, Texas-based department store chain, the campaign--which attempts to steer men away from questionable holiday gifts such as vacuum cleaners and gym memberships and into the arena of fine jewelry--launches today on BewareoftheDoghouse.com . This year's campaign features an all-new video that ...

A fun and humorous take on gift-giving, 'Beware of the Doghouse' once again showcases J.C. Penney as the department store destination customers can trust for fine-jewelry gifts of exceptional style and quality, yet at very affordable prices--a unique value proposition that matters now more than ever   -Ruby Anik

 

Continental Airlines (NYSE: CAL) today announced that it will launch daily nonstop service between its New York hub at Newark Liberty International Airport and Munich, effective March 27, 2010. "We are excited about launching service between New York and Munich, the largest German city not currently served by Continental and a hub for our new partner Lufthansa," said Jim Compton, the airline's executive vice president of marketing. "As well as extending Continental service to a new market in ...

We are excited about launching service between New York and Munich, the largest German city not currently served by Continental and a hub for our new partner Lufthansa   -Jim Compton

 

When Gary Shellman shows off a beer brewing system in his garage, he'll refer to it as a "brewing sculpture." "Because it's literally brewing art," he says. But Shellman won't show our cameras the finished product because he knows brewing beer at home is actually against the law in Oklahoma.

I think there's a lot of people that would like to see us make everything uniform, so it doesn't matter what you're doing. They all fall under the same parameters   -Danny Morgan