Craft Beer

[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!