1.   Also, Lopez denied Bavaria had any plans to launch a joint venture with the Brazilian beer maker Cia. Cervejaria Brahma.

2.   And at least a few beer makers are backing away from the term to avoid confusion and perhaps negative publicity should the simmering dispute reach heady proportions.

3.   As staff members hovered nearby to keep beer makers on track, Cowell and his friends began their brew.

4.   Above all, these independent beer makers say, they are paying more respect to their roots.

5.   After years of trying to ignore the microbreweries, the big beer makers are trying now to join them.

6.   But a feisty little beer maker here is standing in its way.

7.   But that production still is dwarfed by a beer maker like Anheuser-Busch Inc., maker of Budweiser beer.

8.   But these claims, and similar ones from other beer makers, have many in the beer business seething.

9.   Eventually the ban was overturned in court, Bruen acknowledged, but the beer maker no longer distributes in the state.

10.   Expectations that companies, including beer maker Bavaria SA, will post strong earnings helped keep the rally in Bogota shares going.