Brewing

Anheuser-Busch InBev SA/NV says some of its beverages are going to get pricier and come in variable sizes as the maker of Corona and Bud Light looks to catch up with inflation in the U.S. and elsewhere.Leuven, Belgium-based AB InBev found that despite regular updates to its pricing, the company is lagging on cost increases in certain markets, including the U.S. and Brazil, as inflation accelerated since the beginning of the year. “Overall, I feel inflation is a little bit higher than our view,” AB InBev Chief Financial…

If you’ve lived in Colorado for any length of time, you’ve probably met someone who works for a craft brewery. There are more than 400 of them, after all, employing 15,000 people and pumping $2 billion in economic benefits into the state, according to a 2020 study. Providing that industry with a trained workforce is what led to the creation of Metropolitan State University of Denver’s Brewing Operations Program, and its also the impetus behind a major, $1 million expansion that the program’s director said will help…

Coca-Cola and other companies are expanding into alcoholic drinks as consumer demand rises. Photo: Jakub Porzycki/Zuma Press…

MONTERREY, Mexico—For the past 20 years, a 1,100-megawatt power plant owned by Spain’s Iberdrola SA outside Mexico’s industrial capital has kept the lights on for scores of companies such as brewing giant Heineken NV, despite winter freezes, a hurricane and the occasional brush fire.But since January, half the gas-fired plant has been forcibly shut down by Mexico’s government, which argues that private energy companies have plundered Mexico like Spanish…

Advertising giant Publicis Groupe SA PUBGY -1.08% pared back its global ad-spending forecast for 2022 due to the war in Ukraine, but said the advertising market remained healthy despite macroeconomic challenges.Zenith, an ad-buying unit of Publicis, PUBGY -1.08% said it expects global ad spending to grow 8% to $781 billion this year, a downgrade from the 9.1% growth it predicted in December. The firm said it reduced its…

Courtesy of Gunbarrel BrewingGunbarrel Brewing founders Marie and Jamie Fox in 2017. Gunbarrel Brewing, which built up a strong local following after it opened in 2017, said Thursday that it will close its doors for good at the end of the day Sunday. Founded originally by Marie and Jamie Fox, the 20,000-square-foot brewery specialized in hazy IPAs, but it also made and served dozens of other styles, some of which it canned and distributed. “We are very sad to inform you that due to circumstances outside of our control,…

New research suggests that the brewing method and the sex of the drinker may be important to coffee’s link with raised cholesterol.Widest gender difference seen for espresso; narrowest for plunger (cafetière) coffee.The sex of the drinker, as well as the brewing method, may be key to coffee’s link with raised cholesterol, a known risk factor for heart disease, suggests research published on May 10, 2022, in the open access journal Open Heart.Drinking espresso was associated with the widest gender difference in cholesterol…