Heineken, an iconic international beer brand, launched sweepstakes and offers a one-of-a-kind prizes to the winners: a retro fridge, a flat-screen TV and a high-end chair.  What makes those items special is not their price, but rather the fact all of them are decorated by the award-winning New-York based artist Jayson Atienza. Jayson has a signature painting style that consists of sophisticated water color and ink designs. This time his brush touched the items to communicate a part of the iconic brand identity and energy of Heineken to this household items that we see every day.

Coors Light is grabbing a piece of the Super Bowl XLV spotlight—and shining it on the fans. Beginning now and running through February 6  the official beer sponsor of the NFL and Super Bowl XLV is encouraging legal-drinking-age-consumers to ‘Snap, Send, Score’ for a chance to win unthinkable access to the biggest football game of the year and other great prizes.

This festive season, beer brands are demonstrating their dedication to classical Christmas songs and creating their own modern versions of festive tunes. Grolsch has recently unveiled its own adaptation of the ‘Oh, Christmas Tree’ (‘O Tannenbaum’) carol—the best known version of which was  written in 1824 by Leipzig-based teacher Ernst Anschütz (the melody is an old folk tune). The beer brand created a video Christmas card, which features the Swingtop Philharmonic Orchestra playing the iconic melody on green bottles.

With less than 20 days left until Christmas, brands are presenting their own versions of the iconic ‘Jingle Bells’ carol, and each of them adds something special to the well-known song. Guinness GB teamed up with famous British ‘electro folk’ musician James Yuill to update the classical tune by playing on Guinness pint glasses in a pub. ‘Jingle Pints,’ the contemporary version of the 150-year old festive hit, can be heard in a new viral video, which was filmed between the musician’s Indonesian and South American trips.

On December 1, Heineken announced the global roll-out of the new iconic Heineken bottle, completing the redesign of its global brand packaging range. The restyling aims to streamline the visual identity and make the brand even more consistent and recognizable in all 170 markets worldwide. The new bottle will come in five different volume sizes and will be available in Western Europe at the beginning of 2011 and across the rest of the world by 2012.

SABMiller shows the results of the research, which is focused on today’s beer drinking traditions in European countries. The report titled “Whose Round?” unveiled that 20% of 6,000 respondents from 12 cities consider Prague as their top ‘beer’ city, which is followed by Amsterdam (13%) and Berlin (12%). The least attractive capital for beer-drinking are Bucharest, Bratislava and Warsaw with their 1% for each.

The Stella Artois brand, which is well known for its dedication to black-and-white, vintage movies and the artistic culture of the 60’s, is focusing on noir tones in its chick campaign, which was recently kicked off in the UK to support the launch of “rounded, full-bodied” Stella Artois Black (4,9% ABV). Fans of the iconic beer brand are invited to get into the atmosphere of exclusiveness the legendary French cinema provides, and travel in time with Stella by becoming part of the brand’s hilarious The Night Chauffeur campaign.