Tag: Beer sales

New York pub crawls: Because your regular drinking dens are like following the spin-dry cycle

Finally BK catches on, adds Beer to Beverage List – Times Square NY

Hoping to expand their customer base by adding the drunk douchebag tourist element, the Burger King in Times Square New York is adding beer to the beverage list. Now for $7.99, a 21+ customer can purchase a whopper combo with Miller or Bud instead of soda ($2.00 more). From the Daily News: Arnold Lyons, 58, …

Bud Light Lime offers Can Confessions

I just returned from a solid weekend at Lake George, and a cooler of this Bud Light flavor beer was on hand. I’m proud to say that it was the last to go (by default there was nothing else left). Here’s their latest marketing ad: Sorry guys, I prefer bottles with models to the can…

Germans have seen cheaper, sunnier and smokier days

We just heard about this from the Brits and zee Germans are hurting for beer customers. Hotter days may call for more beer drinking but ultimately it’s the rising prices, the “health” factor and a few things not mentioned below, the trend to move expand drinkers pallets to other brews, wines and hard cocktails that …

Beer losing British Iconic appeal?

LONDON (AP) – The iconic British pint is fast losing ground as the national drink, with a report out Monday showing beer sales in pubs slumping to their lowest level since the Great Depression. Squeezed by a nationwide smoking ban, rising costs, competition from supermarkets and the economic downturn, beer sales fell 4.5 percent between …

Ballparks sell diluted beer

I moved to New York several years after the ban on drinking in the bleachers of Yankee Stadium, and to a fan of the game from when I could lift a bat through my legal drinking age, I didn’t understand the reasoning. I heard the fight stories and am very familiar with those as an …