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NEW YORK (AP) - Rheingold Beer may boast that it is "100 percent New York by volume," but don't expect the city's mayor to stand up and cheer. On Monday, Mayor Michael Bloomberg blasted the beer maker after it announced it would begin airing television ads this week poking fun at various city laws, including the mayor's smoking ban in bars and restaurants. Bloomberg noted that Rheingold Brewing Co. laid off thousands of workers from its Brooklyn plant in the 1970s. "Rheingold is a company that walked out on the city 20 years ago," Bloomberg said. "They fired 4,000 people...

Guy walks into a bar, orders a 12-ounce bottle of Corona Extra. Another guy walks in, orders a 12-ounce Guinness draft. Whose drink is healthier? If the guidelines are less alcohol, fewer calories, fewer carbohydrates and, to top it off, protection against heart attacks and blindness, it's the Guinness drinker, hands down. No joke. Guinness, in fact, is lower in alcohol, calories and carbohydrates than Samuel Adams, Budweiser, Heineken and almost every other major-brand beer not classified as light or low-carb. It has fewer calories and carbohydrates than low-fat milk and orange juice. Could this be the same Irish stout...

<p>Joshua Lipes, a 25-year-old paralegal who lives in Brooklyn, N.Y., says that when he wears his tattered Yuengling shirt with an eagle perching on a barrel of beer, people stop him on the street to tell him they've been to Pennsylvania and tried the brew.</p>