Anheuser-Busch, Inc.

Chelada is an alcoholic beverage produced by Anheuser-Busch which combines Budweiser, the king of beers, with Clamato, a drink made from tomato juice and clams.

exploring the appeal of summer beers

Summer on the Seacoast is a fine mix of sultry heat, ocean breezes and tasty barbeques. It’s enough to make you thirsty—thirsty for beer. Beginning each spring, a number of local and regional breweries produce seasonal brews that offer relief from the heat while complementing the feel and flavors of summer.

On Thursday, April 24, Redhook Brewery in Portsmouth will host a summer release party for its seasonal beer, Sunrye. As if the dawning of summer isn’t reason enough to celebrate, the kickoff party commemorates the impending season with kegs of Sunrye, live reggae and free giveaways.

stakeholders discuss male-only dogfish fishery

A series of regulations were established in the 1990s to help restore the over-fished spiny dogfish population. The small schooling sharks made a successful comeback, but, in the process, the ratio of male to female dogfish shifted dramatically. Males continue to outnumber females and are competing for food with other important fish species.

“Typically with dogfish, if you talk about a population in equilibrium, you want to see a two-to-one ratio—two males to every one female,” said Ken La Valley, commercial fishing specialist with New Hampshire Sea Grant. “What you’re seeing now is a five or six to one ratio. Because of that, it’s out of balance.”

Stonyfield CEO to talk business in Portsmouth

There’s a belief in many business circles that you can either focus on attaining wealth or center your efforts on environmental issues—but you can’t do both. Gary Hirshberg, chairman, president and CEO of Stonyfield Farm, begs to differ. Hirshberg was one of the first to purposely build an empire on a green philosophy. His new book, “Stirring It Up: How to Make Money and Save the World,” describes the rise of Stonyfield’s organic dairy products in the national marketplace. Hirshberg will discuss his new book at Portsmouth’s RiverRun Bookstore on Thursday, March 20.

Drawing from both his hardships and successes, Hirshberg’s book is an attempt to inspire those who hope to improve the world’s deteriorating ecosystem while still making money.

“For me, it’s been a long journey from youthful naïveté to aging clarity, but every step, however difficult, has given me the pleasure of discovering how nature’s wisdom can become humankind’s salvation,” Hirshberg writes in the new book.

Stonyfield Farm’s journey began in the early 1980s, when the company was established as an organic farming school based in Wilton, N.H. The initial mission was to teach sustainable farming practices, but this changed after a few serendipitous turns of fate.