Yet another tale of a giant corporation behaving like a jackass: Booze giant Diageo extorts award out from under rightful winner.

More at Financial Times and the Telegraph.

Diageo, if you’re not familiar, is a Brit multinational and the world’s largest producer of distilled spirits, as well as a giant in beer and wine. Here’s a helpful list of their brands, in the event that you, like Heathen Central, wish to avoid them in the future:

• Beer: Guinness, Tusker, Smithwick’s, Red Stripe, Harp, Kilkenny
• Scotch: Johnnie Walker, Carhu, J&B, Caol Ila, Oban, Talisker, Lagavulin, Dalwhinnie, Cragganmore, Haig
• Vodka: Smirnoff, Ciroc, Popov, Ketel One
• Gin: Gordon’s, Tanqueray, Gilbey’s, Booth’s.
• Rum: Captain Morgan, Myers
• Bourbon: Bulleit
• Canadian whisky: Crown Royal, Seagram’s
• Irish whiskey: Bushmill’s
• Tennessee whiskey: George Dickel
• Wine: Sterling vinyards, Beaulieu, Chalone, Acacia

I think all I’d miss is the occasional Guinness and, sometimes, Lagavulin (though I prefer another malt).