Archive for New Belgium

Stone Brewing Company installs waste water treatment plant

Background: Escondido’s Stone Brewing Co. has been trucking 40,000 gallons of wastewater every month to San Diego for treatment because Escondido’s municipal sewage treatment plant cannot handle its high sugar and protein content.
What’s changing: The brewery has spent $850,000 to build its own wastewater treatment facility. It will begin operating Wednesday.
 
 

Brewery will start treating wastewater
On-site [...]

Posted by: Sean-o on Monday, August 11th, 2008

New Belgium and Elysian Brewing - Joint Venture

New Belgium joins in win-win venture
Seattle’s Elysian to make New Belgium products,
BY PAT FERRIER
New Belgium Brewing Co. of Fort Collins and Elysian Brewing Co. of Seattle will soon begin brewing beer at each other’s facilities, creating a new collaboration and business model in the craft brewing industry.
New Belgium plans to brew small-batch experimental beers [...]

Posted by: Sean-o on Sunday, July 27th, 2008

Top premium and craft beers, by volume

Top premium and craft beers, by volume
NEW YORK (Associated Press)
TOP THREE U.S. PREMIUM BEERS, 2007, BY VOLUME SHIPPED:
Bud Light, Anheuser-Busch Co., St. Louis, Mo., 42 million barrels
     - Six-pack of 12-ounce bottles, typically $5.59
Budweiser, Anheuser-Busch, 24.6 million barrels
     - Six-pack of 12-ounce bottles, typically $5.59
Miller Lite, MillerCoors, Chicago, 18.4 million barrels
     - Six-pack of 12-ounce [...]

Posted by: Sean-o on Saturday, July 26th, 2008

National News from the Brewers Association

Brewers Association Releases Top 50 Breweries List
Boulder, Colo. • April 7, 2008 – The Brewers Association, which tabulates industry growth data, announced its annual list of the top fifty brewing companies. Released are both a Top 50 Craft Brewing Companies¹ list and a list of the Top 50 Overall Brewing Companies. Statistics are based on [...]

Posted by: Sean-o on Tuesday, April 15th, 2008

IRI Top 30 Beer Brand Performers in 2007

The 30 fastest growing beer brands in the U.S. last year included notables such as Bud Light, Miller Lite and Coors Light….
Click here to read the article.
IRI Top 30 Beer Brand Performers in 2007
Total U.S. Supermarkets

Rank
Beer Brand

1
Blue Moon Belgian White Ale

2
Samuel Adams Seasonal

3
Heineken Premium Light Lager

4
Stella Artois Lager

5
Newcastle Brown Ale

6
Coors Light

7
Bud Light

8
Yuengling Traditional Lager

9
Miller Lite

10
Samuel [...]

Posted by: Sean-o on Wednesday, April 2nd, 2008

On the alert for Craft Beer imposters!!

This article reminds me why the 2Beerguys and Family is a very important asset to our beer drinking friends. Selecting a beer can be really confusing and over whelming when going to a sports event, concert, or a local store. So many choices and different beers to purchase, the tension can lead to a bad [...]

Posted by: 2beerguys on Wednesday, December 5th, 2007

Is mixing your beer the new fad?

I saw this article below and thought… say it’s not so…. Who’s mixing there beer? Do you get a better beer if you mix a corona with a blue moon? Could you call that a Blue Corona or a Corona moon?
Sure, there’s the famous black and tan, but would you order it if it [...]

Posted by: 2beerguys on Sunday, November 4th, 2007

Rocky Mountain High

It’s a constant battle to collect beer to review and actually review the beer that we have collected. As Ian mentioned in a previous post, the 2Beerguys have developed an addiction to searching for new beer. We have enough beer in the queue to reach 400 with ease. Rather than buying new beer, we are [...]

Posted by: 2beerguys on Wednesday, February 28th, 2007

It’s a xmas miracle

Woohoo!
I’m in! What an honor, thanks Beer Guys!
And thanks again for the Xmas sampler 6 pack… Here’s some thoughts one one I tried on NYE. The Frambozen Raspberry Brown Ale from New Belgium Brewing Company was a nice treat. Poured a dark reddish brown with a good head and decent lacing as it went down. [...]

Posted by: 2beerguys on Thursday, January 4th, 2007