February 13, 2012

Workers demand beer rights

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I was interested to read that Carlsberg brewery workers in Denmark have gone on strike after management cut their daily free beer ration. The poor petals are also supposed to only imbibe now at lunch time. If you said that someone “couldn’t organise a piss-up in a brewery” you’d be disparaging them, but it’s not [...]

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New Victoria Bitter ad

I rather like the new advertisement for Victoria Bitter, which I saw on Thursday night for the first time on SBS during The Ashes coverage. It’s very funny in an understated, ironic kind of way. The marketing pitch for The Regulars is to present VB as a drink for anyone, whereas previously it was promoted [...]

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