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The beer biz never sleeps at American Craft Beer. And here’s some more of what’s been happening in the beer world, while you were drinking yourself towards the 4th of July.
Medical Examiner Yet To Find Cause In Braves Stadium Cooler Death (Atlanta, GA) – Last week a beer tech entrepreneur who invented a process that cuts down pour times was found dead inside a beer cooler at SunTrust Park Stadium in Georgia.
The Cobb County Medical Examiner has yet to determine the cause of death of Todd Keeling, the 48-year-old Minnesota-based father of four who was found dead inside a walk-in beer cooler on Tuesday, the 26th. Keeling had been finishing off an installation of his “patented beer tap system that was going to slash pour times throughout the ballpark,” according to the Atlanta Journal-Constitution.
The medical examiner, Christopher Gulledge said that more toxicology testing and microscopic study of tissues was needed before a final call could be made. But the Occupational Safety and Health Administration is also investigating, agency spokesman Michael D’Aquino told The AJC.
Words To Drink By (Byhalia, MS) “We must be free not because we claim freedom, but because we practice it.” – Author William Faulkner on the 4th of July.
World Cup Win Could Mean Free Bud Light In California (Sacramento, CA) – Anheuser-Busch has promised free Bud Light for everyone in the state of California if Mexico puts an end to “curse of the fifth,” beats Brazil and advances to the World Cup quarterfinals this week.
Mexico has not been able to advance past the Round of 16 in the tournament since the 1994 World Cup…a defeat Mexican soccer fans have enshrined as the “curse of the fifth game.”
Last February Anheuser-Busch, Bud Light’s parent company, promised to provide the City of Philadelphia with free beer if the Eagles won the Super Bowl. And the company made good on that wager and handed out the free beer around the Eagles victory parade.
