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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 your way through the weekend.
NFL Jumps Ugly Over Lamar Jackson Tribute Beer (Columbia, MD) – Baltimore Raven’s Lamar Jackson may or may not officially be the NFL’s most valuable player, but when Hysteria Brewing paid homage to the star quarterback with its #MVP Hazy IPA, NFL lawyer swooped in to block the beer’s release.
Federal law, prohibits false associations and endorsements under the Lanham Act, which guards against unfair competition. And the NFL’s legal team argued that the beer label, which depicts a player resembling Jackson, dressed in what looks like his No. 8 jersey, “creates a false association” between Hysteria Brewing, the Ravens, and the NFL.
Hysteria Brewing director of sales, marketing manager and brewer, Ty Kreis to the Baltimore Biz Journal that the brewery “still plans to move forward with the #MVP release and is reworking its label to avoid legal issues. “We’re removing anything that could possibly be confused that it’s a Ravens jersey,” he wrote in a text.
Words To Drink By (New York., NY) – “The beauty of me is that I’m very rich” President Donald J Trump
Spacy Beer (Cape Canaveral, FL) – Budweiser generated considerable buzz in 2018 when it was announced at a SXSW technology forum, that the company was exploring ways to brew beer on Mars . And 0n Dec. 5, SpaceX launched a 3-ton shipment to the International Space Station which include a miniature of a brewery’s malt house.
Now in orbit, the barley will remain in space for over a month before returning to earth. Then the “Bud Barley” will undergo spacy analysis to determine if it’s time in space altered the grain in any way and to learn if barley germination is even possible in a micro-gravity environment.
