Daily News: “Data-Distilled” Rum, The Need for Sessionable Craft Beer

Session beer

Your daily dose of news and happenings from around the drink-o-sphere:

– Heineken and Carlsberg have joined Carling and Budweiser in raising beer prices in response to the falling British pound.

– Sessionable beer might just be the key to craft beer’s enduring success.

Soil type is becoming a more common classification for wine alongside grape variety and region.

– Finally, Virgin Holidays has relied on a super computer to create the first “data-distilled rum.”

[Photo: Flickr/Adam Barhan]