May 2003 Volume 24, Number 2

Features

Taxing the Pour
by Alan Moen

Like it or not, taxes are a fact of life (or death, as some would say). They have been imposed on citizens by governments for centuries, and breweries and their ...

Old Breweries, New Beer
by Greg Kitsock

America is dotted with the corpses of old breweries. You might have passed them while driving through some forgotten inner-city neighborhood: brick-and-mortar behemoths, four to five stories high, sometimes with ...

Which Bud’s For You?
by Roger Protz

The old saying that only lawyers get rich has never been more true where the protracted legal wrangles between Anheuser-Busch in the United States and Budweiser Budvar in the Czech ...

Viva La Cerveza y Limón
by Matt Stinchfield

Columbus, Cortez and Coronado all showed up in Mexico looking for gold. What gold they did find, they traded for smallpox, syphilis and mercury poisoning. Thanks, guys. It wasn’t until ...