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Magic Hat’s craft-beer wave
By Lauren Ober, Free Press Staff Writer
It’s no revelation that this country loves its beer. Whether it’s Schlitz or Switchback, Americans are attached to their suds.
In 2007, Americans consumed 71 billion bottles of beer. Not only does that mean a lot of trips to the bathroom, it also means the beer industry [...]
History of Imperial stouts
In honor of our Stouts and Porter’s class tonight, please enjoy this brief history of the Imperial Stout.
Sean
2Beerguys.com
Drink Craft Beer, You’ve Earned It!!!
American imperialism - Craft brewers build a new age of empires
By Alastair Bland
Belgian ales and barley wines have garnered a lot of credit as the shining stars of the gourmet beer craze in [...]
Growth challenge is brewing at Boston Beer
By Jon Chesto
The Patriot Ledger
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BOSTON — If the craft brewing industry held a popularity contest, Boston Beer would easily win. The South Boston-based company took the No. 1 spot among craft brewers years ago and never looked back, with its shipment volumes of Samuel Adams beers rising by more than 15 percent in the last [...]
Useful, not useful and just wrong!!
Very Random and mostly useless pieces of information
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Craft brewing is a growing segment of the beer industry. Its sales made up 5.9 percent of the total beer market in retail sales in 2007, but the sector grew by about 12 percent in volume last year and 16 percent in dollars, according to the [...]
Eight Healthy Reasons To Drink Beer
Allison Van Dusen, 03.17.08, 12:01 AM ET
Looking for a good excuse to tip back a beer?
You don’t have to wait for St. Patrick’s Day. That’s because a decade’s worth of health research shows that regular, moderate beer intake–one to two 12 ounce glasses per day for men and one for women–can be good for you, [...]
Interesting mix of 2007 Stats
Happy belated New Year to all of our friends and fellow beer lovers. Ian and I expect 2008 to be a great year for us. We currently have plans to host a Belgian Beer Education night (on January 24th) and we are setting our schedules for the upcoming year.
2007 was kind to us. We [...]
Growing craft brewers get business-savvy
The following information came from a Newsweek article about the growing craft beer market. I only shared a portion of this article, but if you are interested in reading more about the business side of craft brewing, please use the link below.
Sean
2Beerguys.com
Drink Craft Beer, You’ve Earned It!!
Growing craft brewers get business-savvy
By LAUREN SHEPHERD
“The beer category [...]
How much would YOU pay for a craft beer?
OK, by the title you are imagining that this is an article based on the hop shortage and the increase in the cost of grains. BUT if you did, you would be incorrect. I posted this article because they mention the Utopias and the Dark Lord.
Enjoy!!
Sean
2Beerguys.com
Drink Craft Beer, You’ve Earned It!!
P.s. This adds one more [...]
A Shaky Market for Hops Challenges Brewers
This article is a couple of months old, but it still worth posting because of its relevance to the current climate in the brewing industry. It talks about the hop “crisis”, and what brewers are doing about it.
Soaring hop prices are also cutting into brewers’ profits. “Hops are easily up 20 percent over last year,” [...]
Grain: The new gold - Bakers, brewers hit hard by skyrocketing wheat prices - EagleTribune.com, North Andover, MA
By Bill Kirk, Business Editor
Eagle-Tribune
Brewer David Wilson stood in the basement of The Tap on Washington Street in Haverhill as one of his assistants poured a bag of malt - a grain used to make beer - into the noisy milling machine.
He shook his head as he recited the recent price increases for ingredients that [...]
