| Vermont is King of Beer Earlier this month, the Brewers Association released its list of the top 50 American breweries by sales. Vermont breweries Magic Hat Brewing Company of Burlington ranked 36th and Long Trail Brewing Company of Bridgewater ranked 37th. Otter Creek Brewing of Middlebury came in at 50. That may not sound impressive until you consider that more than 1,400 breweries around the U.S. were included in the survey and 31 other states, most of them much larger than Vermont, didn't have a single brewery on the list. On a per capita basis (Vermont has a population of just over 1/2 million) the state truly is the King of Brewers. At the top of the list were beer industry titans Anheuser-Busch, Miller Brewing Company and Coors Brewing Company. Pabst Brewing Company of Texas was at fourth with City Brewing Company of Wisconsin fifth. Pennsylvania's D.G. Yuengling and Sons, America's oldest continually operating brewery, came in at sixth place. Boston Beer Company, the makers of Sam Adams, came in eighth. Rolling Rock producer Latrobe Brewing Company came in ninth. Magic Hat and Long Trail came in ahead of a number of regional breweries with strong national profiles, including Brooklyn Brewery of New York, Pete's Brewing Company of Texas and Rogue Ales of Oregon. |
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Coors Moves into the USSR
Coors has announced it will spend $16 milion to
market "Coors Fine Light" in Russia. The bew will be
made by a local brewer in Kaliningrad. The beer will
go on slae in Moscow and St. Petersburg in late
May.
Beer drinking has been on the rise in Russia. Sales
grew seven percent in 2003 and over 15% in 2004.
According to several consumer surveys beer has
surpassed vodka as Russia's favorite beverage.
Beer is far easier to get in Russia than in the United
States. Up to two-thirds of domestic Russian beer
sales come from street kiosks that are plentiful in the
major cities. Overall consumption of beer reached
nearly 68 million barrels in 2004.
Big Tanks for Miller
Miller Lite beer slaes increased 10.5% in the past year
while total beer sales nationwide rose only 0.6 %.
The huge demand has put a premium on capacity at
Miller's Calif. plant which brews and distributes beer to
the entire West Coast, Arizona, Guam, Hawaill, Sout
Korea and other Asian countries.
In response to this overwhelming demand Miller has
installed two new fermenting tanks that will hold nearly
5,500 barrels of wort. Just one of the 60 ft. high tanks
can hold the equivalent of 100,000 cases of beer.
That's 2.4 million bottles or cans in every tank. It is
anticipated that the tanks will be filled and emptied four
to five times a month. This is in addition to the eighteen
other 60 ft. tanks already in operation at the plant.
Coors has announced it will spend $16 milion to
market "Coors Fine Light" in Russia. The bew will be
made by a local brewer in Kaliningrad. The beer will
go on slae in Moscow and St. Petersburg in late
May.
Beer drinking has been on the rise in Russia. Sales
grew seven percent in 2003 and over 15% in 2004.
According to several consumer surveys beer has
surpassed vodka as Russia's favorite beverage.
Beer is far easier to get in Russia than in the United
States. Up to two-thirds of domestic Russian beer
sales come from street kiosks that are plentiful in the
major cities. Overall consumption of beer reached
nearly 68 million barrels in 2004.
Big Tanks for Miller
Miller Lite beer slaes increased 10.5% in the past year
while total beer sales nationwide rose only 0.6 %.
The huge demand has put a premium on capacity at
Miller's Calif. plant which brews and distributes beer to
the entire West Coast, Arizona, Guam, Hawaill, Sout
Korea and other Asian countries.
In response to this overwhelming demand Miller has
installed two new fermenting tanks that will hold nearly
5,500 barrels of wort. Just one of the 60 ft. high tanks
can hold the equivalent of 100,000 cases of beer.
That's 2.4 million bottles or cans in every tank. It is
anticipated that the tanks will be filled and emptied four
to five times a month. This is in addition to the eighteen
other 60 ft. tanks already in operation at the plant.
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