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- BUSINESS, Page 59Business NotesBREWINGThis Spud's For You
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- In one of its mock commercials, Saturday Night Live once
- touted a beer made from potatoes, called Spud, for people who've
- just had electroshock therapy and "can't tell the difference."
- But to the brewers at Wisconsin's Stevens Point Brewery, which
- is situated in a potato-farming area, the idea doesn't seem
- flaky at all. The 132-year-old company, maker of a regional
- favorite called Point Special Beer, decided to introduce a novel
- brew to coincide with a local university fund raiser called the
- Spud Bowl. The brewers started with the basic beer ingredients
- of barley and hops, but used potato starch in place of corn. In
- late August the company delivered the first 1,000 cases of Spud
- Premier, whose label depicts a leafy potato plant. If Spud finds
- success, will consumers confuse it with the mascot of a more
- famous brew? "Not at all," quips Stevens Point president Kenneth
- Shibilski. "Theirs refers to an animal. Ours refers to an edible
- starchy tuber."
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