Craft Beer

[SeanGAR]

Originally Posted by HawkEye19

"I just cant quite bring myself to drink mass-produced beer anymore."

You just quoted a number of mass-produced beers. It's nitpicking, I know.

Stone, DFH, Brooklyn, Southern Tier, SN, Malheur, Saison, Chimay, Unibrou, Ommegang.

SAB, A-B-Inbev, Carlsburg, Kirin, G-Modelo, Fosters, Scottish & Newcastle, Coors, Ashai, Polar, Bass.

Which mass produce beer?

I can get the numbers if you like.

Originally Posted by SeanGAR

Stone, DFH, Brooklyn, Southern Tier, SN, Malheur, Saison, Chimay, Unibrou, Ommegang.

SAB, A-B-Inbev, Carlsburg, Kirin, G-Modelo, Fosters, Scottish & Newcastle, Coors, Ashai, Polar, Bass.

Which mass produce beer?

I can get the numbers if you like.

Ill add to that list that are craft breweries.

Rogue
New Glaus
Bar Harbor
Anderson Valley
Great Divide
Sweetwater
August Schell
Sierra Nevada
Alaskan
Magic Hat
Anchor
Flying Dog
Bear Republic
Founders
Goose Island
Yuengling

http://www.beertown.org/education/craft_defined.html
more infor on craft and microbreweries

[AD720]

All of the beer coming out of the Philly area lately has been fantastic.

Philadelphia Brewing Co.
Yards
Troegs
Flying Fish


I could drink just Philly beer forever.

[HawkEye19]

Originally Posted by SeanGAR

Stone, DFH, Brooklyn, Southern Tier, SN, Malheur, Saison, Chimay, Unibrou, Ommegang.

SAB, A-B-Inbev, Carlsburg, Kirin, G-Modelo, Fosters, Scottish & Newcastle, Coors, Ashai, Polar, Bass.

Which mass produce beer?

I can get the numbers if you like.

Save for a couple of those breweries, they all mass produce beer. InBEV, Miller-Coors and Pabst just do it on a larger scale. Bottling lines, multiple fermentors and brew kettles make for "mass production".

Unless you're drinking beer you made yourself, or a small brewpub/brewery operation you're drinking "mass produced" beer.

Originally Posted by HawkEye19

Save for a couple of those breweries, they all mass produce beer. InBEV, Miller-Coors and Pabst just do it on a larger scale. Bottling lines, multiple fermentors and brew kettles make for "mass production".

Unless you're drinking beer you made yourself, or a small brewpub/brewery operation you're drinking "mass produced" beer.

To be a craft/microbrewery you can only make 15,000 barrels or less of beer a year. Miller and Bud make close to 100,000,000 barrels a year EACH. I think there is a difference there. For every one barrel of beer a craft brewery makes, Miller and Bud will make 14,000. I hope this will help you put "mass production" into perspective.

To add more perspective, a US beer barrel is 31 gallons. A craft brewery will make 465,000 gallons of beer a year. Bud will make 3,100,000,000 gallons. Add in Miller and you have 6,200,000,000 gallons a year. Thats only 2 of the big beer producers. For every 1 gallon of beer a craft brewery will make, Bud and Miller will make 413,333 gallons.

[SeanGAR]

Originally Posted by HawkEye19

Save for a couple of those breweries, they all mass produce beer. InBEV, Miller-Coors and Pabst just do it on a larger scale. Bottling lines, multiple fermentors and brew kettles make for "mass production".

Unless you're drinking beer you made yourself, or a small brewpub/brewery operation you're drinking "mass produced" beer.

Legend ... is that you?



Oh, and I have multiple fermentors, multiple brew kettles, I sterile filter, artificially carbonate and have a bottling line (although I normally keg). So I guess I mass produce beer.

[kaisersozei]

Originally Posted by SeanGAR

Oh, and I have multiple fermentors, multiple brew kettles, I sterile filter, artificially carbonate and have a bottling line (although I normally keg). So I guess I mass produce beer.

Sweet--I've been waiting to make a purchase!