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One of largest Chicago breweries doesn't make it's own beer! The entire facility is used for contract brewing and they're barely meeting demand as more brewers than ever before are going the contract route. Built from the ground up and stocked with an automated 50-barrel brewhouse imported from Germany and assembled by a team of Germans over the summer, Great Central Brewery initially will have capacity to brew up to 24,000 barrels of beer a year, instantly making it one of the city's larger breweries. It will be able to expand to 125,000 barrels. Founded by homebrewing pals David Avram and Conor McFerran, the brewery is the first of its kind for Chicago, dedicated solely to brewing and packaging other breweries' recipes. It will also have an attached 3,800-square-foot taproom that will pour up to 24 beers produced at the brewery. |
Oktoberfest is famous for its beer-steeped festivities. But this year, security fears dampened things a bit. The just concluded 18-day folk festival, Germany’s largest, opened without major disruption, but after Bavaria was shaken by a string of attacks this summer, Munich, the state capital, was prepared for the worst, with its tightest security in years. Surveillance cameras on the Wiesn, the Oktoberfest fairgrounds, increased by more than half to 29, and for the first time a 350-meter security fence was installed to block off a traditionally open flank. Security officials banned any backpack bigger than three liters— like the one that held the bomb detonated by a Syrian refugee earlier this summer in the city of Ansbach in Germany’s first suicide attack. Oktoberfest has been a site of violence and the target of threats before. In 1980, a far-right extremist killed 12 people and himself with a bomb that wounded about 200 others. In 2009, al Qaeda promised to attack Germany during the festival, leading to a previous security spike. Concern over terrorism was strong however as reservations were down from last year by as much as 15%. |
NFL Loves Light- Anheuser Busch-InBev owned Bud Light, is the official beer sponsor of the NFL on a national level, and sponsors 28 out of 32 individual NFL teams locally.After rolling out limited-edition, team-branded cans for the first time last year, the company saw sales of Bud Light in those markets rise by nearly four percent. Corona Sale Soar- Corona Extra's sales are up 12 percent this year even after last year's record growth. However, owner Constellation Brands has taken a cautious approach to Corona Extra on draft, so as not to cannibalize sales of its iconic bottles which explains why you seldom see it on your bar's taps. The beer was just named the "Official Cerveza of the Los Angeles Rams". Beer In Britain- The British Beer & Pub Association just released figures showing that the industry contributes 22 billion pounds to the British economy, generates 13 billion pounds in annual tax revenue and employs 900,000 people, almost half of them aged between 16 to 24. Advent - Blue Point Colonial Ale and Blue Point Toasted Lager along with other Blue Point products were the only beesr served in the hospitality room for the first Trump / Clinton debate at Hofstra University. The room was sponsored by Blue Point's parent company, Anheuser Busch - In Bev |
Beer in Vietnam Heineken NV’s expansion of its production in Vietnam by taking over a brewery from rival Carlsberg A/S highlights growing interest by global beer brands to quench the thirst of about 70 million locals in one of the world’s fastest-growing economies. With a thriving street-side cafe and bar culture, young population and rising middle class, Vietnam is luring brewers such as Heineken, Thai Beverage PCL and Asahi Group Holdings Ltd. to expand in the country. Beer consumption in the Southeast Asian country jumped about 40 percent in the last 4 year according to the Vietnam Beer Beverage Association. Vietnamese guzzlers are expected to consume more than 4.04 billion liters osf beer this year, the most in the region and up from 3.88 billion liters in 2015, according to Euromonitor International. Economists predict Vietnam will be among the world’s fastest-growing economies in 2016 as it benefits from a manufacturing industry that’s grown in importance over the years. Its citizens of legal drinking age, 18 and above, is expected to increase to 72.4 million by 2021 from 68.7 million this yewith Asian countries such as Japan and Thailand, where home-grown brands take up about 90 percent of volume. Vietnam’s government is also considering selling as much as 100 percent of its stake in state-owned Saigon Beer Beverage Corp., known as Sabeco, a long-awaited divestment that has attracted interest from Japanese and European brewers in the past. Sabeco, brewer of Saigon Beer and 333 Beer, is the country’s largest brewer by sales with 40 percent of the market last year, followed by Heineken and Habeco with 20 percent Send contributions for On Tap to webmaster@beernexus.com |
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