Strength: 5.9% Brewed: Chicago, Illinois Set up in 1988 by founder John Hall, Goose Island is now one of America’s most popular craft breweries. Inspired by Hall’s travels of Europe, through which he managed to experience some incredible tasting beers from the continent, Chicago was eventually the city chosen as a base for the brewery: a city that was at the time an ideal start with plenty of rapidly evolving tastes. Chicago is also home to the largest fresh water system on...

As part of our business advice series, TheLondonEconomic.com spoke to Neil Slater, General Manager at DMC Software about the Most Common CRM (Customer Relationship Management) mistakes that businesses make. Whilst Customer Relationship Management (CRM) solutions have been around for a long time now, many businesses are still finding that their solution is not living up to their expectations. Adopted as part of a vital strategy for growth, they have become a tool for all businesses to enhance their customer management, and...

Hashtag #boycottbyron has gone viral after the popular burger chain was accused of laying an immigration trap for its workers. Dozens of workers at Byron Burger were arrested in an "intelligence led" raid by immigration officials last night after staff were lured into thinking they were attending a training day. Workers from at least 15 restaurants in the capital were called to the event only to discover the meeting was about their right to work in the UK. Panicked staff then apparently asked...

Many were dubious by the Ice Bucket Challenge that swept the digital universe in 2014, indeed we at the London Economic initially were not too impressed. We whole-heartedly apologise now, as it has actually achieved something. Millions of people, including high profile celebrities, filmed themselves having a bucket of ice cold water poured over them, to raise money for and awareness of ALS – a progressive neurodegenerative disease. It is also known as motor neurone disease (MND). Overall around 17...

Four years have passed since the Shard was completed, and I’m still unable to understand why visits to the 72nd floor viewing gallery are so popular. Given the choice, why would anybody choose to pay £25.95 for the pleasure? Especially when that particular cost could, instead, buy a round of drinks (almost) within one of the restaurant bars? The restaurants are perched just half-way up the tower, yet the views are almost equally impressive – especially when seated window-side, with...

Electric car manufacturer and environmental entrepreneur Elon Musk gave the world’s media a tour of the new Tesla battery manufacturing plant and immediately came under criticism for the treatment of his batteries. “It’s absolutely disgusting” said one reporter. “The batteries are all crammed into these tiny little chicken coops with no natural light. There is no room to move and they sit there, idly whirring away. The batteries look like they’ve had their electrodes trimmed and all their lithium is...

An astonishing video has been released that features an orangutan who can talk! Rocky has somehow managed to learn to talk like a human being. The eight-year-old primate has copied words and reproduced them to scientists in a "conversational context". Rocky mimicked the tone and pitch of human vowel sounds. He was able to learn new sounds and control the action of his voice in the way humans do when they conduct a conversation, the scientists concluded. Researchers think this clever...

A disgruntled Sanders supporter has pledged to vote for Donald Trump after their candidate wasn’t democratically chosen to be the presidential candidate. Fuming Michael De Rossi, 31 from Seattle screamed: “If we can’t have Bernie, then it has to be Trump, that will teach Hilary not to mess with us.” It is well known that Clinton has demanded that a wall is built between Mexico and US, Muslims shouldn’t be allowed in the country and has laughed at disabled journalists....

After the disgusting events of yesterday at a Church in Normandy, when a Priest was murdered in cold blood, the terrorists’ attentions appear to be turning to London. There have been images threatening attacks on the UK capital circulating via Telegram, a messaging app used by Islamic terrorists. The warning for London comes the day after an 85-year-old priest’s throat was slit by two attackers who claimed to represent Islamic State. After intercepting these communications counter-terror police have warned religious...