Xingu — a nice dark beer from Brazil

Heineken’s New Clear Label

Putting those brewery production lines to good use:

During disasters, beer and soft drink makers sometimes divert their resources into producing drinking water for survivors. After the Northridge earthquake, one big brewery in LA did this; the same happens back east after floods and hurricanes. Jacob Appelbaum shot this snap of a can of “Floodweiser” — drinking water donated by an Anheuser-Busch brewery in Texas for Hurricane Katrina victims at the Houston Astrodome…

[via Boing Boing]

New beer to sample… Saint Arnold Summer Pilsner (brewed in Houston, TX). Not bad!