Category: Craft Drinks Stuff You Should Know
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Craft Beer Infographic: “Craft” Beer Owned by AB Inbev
AB Inbev is the product of decades of consolidation in the big beer industry. This “craft” beer infographic breaks it down for you. This behemoth accounts for about 30% of all beer sales in the world. Infographic Breakdown This is the brewer of Budweiser, Stella Artois, Corona (outside the US), Beck’s, Miller, Michelob and many, many…
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Craft Beer? Or MillerCoors
There are lots of well-known craft beer brands out there. Two well-known ones are Terrapin and Saint Archer. However, the good folks at both Terrapin and Saint Archer took the money. Yep, they sold out to MillerCoors. During the craft beer frenzy around the 2012-2015, there was a frenzy of mergers and acquisitions within the…
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What Are the Ingredients in Craft Beer?
It may be surprising to some, but most craft beers only have four main ingredients. The tiniest of tweaks in these core ingredients have a huge impact in the resulting beer. Now we all know that craft breweries add additional ingredients like fruits and spices, we’ll be focusing on the main four here. There’s also…
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What Makes a Beer a Craft Beer?
Big beer brands are household names. Many people also know craft beer – the smaller, local beers that have proliferated in recent years. We know they are two different products, but they are more distinct than you may think. Here we will explore the craft beer criteria that makes beer “craft”. A craft product is…
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A Quick History of Craft Beer in the US
American craft beer is relatively new when considering beer’s millenniums-old history, but where did “craft beer” get its start? It’s an industry that’s had its shares of ups and downs, but is currently an industry that rakes in $23.5 billion annually from over 5,000 breweries. So how did craft brewing get so successful so fast? Well,…