Odd Thing #1: Biggest Breweries List
Each year, the Brewers Association releases lists of the biggest US breweries--and today they put out the 2014 lists. The first one contains all breweries, the second one "craft breweries." But that second one is becoming increasingly bizarre and baroque. Let's just compare/contrast:
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April 8, 2015
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Odd Thing #1: Biggest Breweries List
Each year, the Brewers Association releases lists of the biggest US breweries–and today they put out the 2014 lists. The first one contains all breweries, the second one “craft breweries.” But that second one is becoming increasingly bizarre and baroque. Let’s just compare/contrast:
- Craft Brewers Alliance, an association of three independent craft breweries with a minority stake by Anheuser-Busch, is not on the list.
- The Belgian conglomerate Duvel Moortgat, owner of Boulevard and Ommegang, Gambrinus, an importer that owns a menagerie of beer companies, and North American Breweries, owned by–not making this up–Cerveceria Costa Rica, a subsidiary of Florida Ice and Farm Company, are all on the list.
- Yuengling and August Schell are on the list–after years of being excluded.
- Boston Beer, a giant company that makes Twisted Tea and Angry Orchard, is on the list.
The “craft brewers list” is nothing of the kind: it’s a “Brewers Association list.” I hope jour … |
Source: Beervana
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