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The first half of April should have been a nirvana of sports and entertainment in Georgia. The Final Four was to be played at the Mercedes Benz Stadium from April 4 to 6. The Masters Tournament was scheduled to take place in Augusta from April 9 to April 12. And the Atlanta Braves were supposed to host their opening homestand of the 2020 season - six consecutive home games at Truist Park starting April 3. Instead, that world ended abruptly with the cancelations and postponements of all those events – and life as we knew it - due to the...

As bars and restaurants remain shuttered in response to the coronavirus pandemic, Boston Beer is turning millions of dollars of expired beer into ethanol to recoup some of its lost sales. Beer sales rose 11.6% in the week ended April 11, according to Nielsen data, as consumers drink more at home. But the spike doesn’t benefit craft brewers as much because they rely on sales in restaurants and bars. The shift in consumption trends is leading to expired kegs for many craft beer manufacturers. **SNIP** The company’s founder and chairman Jim Koch said on CNBC’s “The Exchange” Friday that it...

Trenton "In our colleges, particularly the frat houses, many kids are dying from binge drinking," says State Senator Shirley Turner. She says underage binge drinking is happening at colleges, beach parties and backyard summer picnics and since these kids are minors it doesn't take a Mensa member to figure out they must be getting their alcohol from an adult. Under a bill Turner is sponsoring all kegs that are sold by retailers to consumers would have to be affixed with a keg registration seal which displays a registration number and the name of the licensee offering the keg for sale...

MUNCIE, Ind. (AP) - Beer drinkers in this college town will have to settle for bottles or cans, as more than a dozen liquor stores have quit selling kegs. The stores are hoping to ditch low profits from kegs, compared with beer sold by the case. Some say they also hope the move will help cut down on alcohol-related violence and accidents. "The majority of students are very angry because they don't get why we're doing this," said Chris Johnson, manager of Muncie Liquor. All six of the chain's stores have been no-keg zones since last weekend. At one store,...

This Has to Be Homer Simpson... Fri Jan 21, 9:12 AM ET Oddly Enough - Reuters PRAGUE (Reuters) - A Czech man is being taken to court after he hid in a restaurant washroom until the employees had left and then hooked up beer kegs directly to his mouth. Cleaning staff found him drunk and lying on the floor of the bar at the restaurant in the city of Brno, about 200km (120 miles) east of Prague, the CTK news agency reported on Thursday. "He had broken the door of the cooling mechanism ... and detached the hoses leading from...

<p>New York's Legislature is poised to pass a law that would tighten registration procedures for buying beer by the keg and increase the deposit to $75. Proponents say the measures will make it harder for underage drinkers to obtain the kegs, or popular half-kegs.</p>