Craft Beer by the Bay
With more than 70 breweries, a vibrant restaurant scene, and a city rich with culture, the San Francisco Bay Area will be abuzz as it hosts the 2011 Craft Brewers Conference.
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With more than 70 breweries, a vibrant restaurant scene, and a city rich with culture, the San Francisco Bay Area will be abuzz as it hosts the 2011 Craft Brewers Conference.
With solid support lined up, expectations increase for a tipping point where craft brewers grow capacity, production, and sales and emerge from their niche origins to broad appeal.
After a disappointing record the previous two years, 752,118 barrels were sold by brewpubs in 2010, up 6.9%. The brewpub segment has weathered the storm.
In total, production at microbreweries increased 11.8% in 2010. That number doesn’t include the nine breweries that grew out of the category.
No matter how you phrase it, craft beer regionals are taking advantage of burgeoning demand by building their breweries downward, upward, and skyward.
Big brewers and importers have had a tough two years. In 2010, domestic beer shipments were down 3 million barrels, or -1.6%, compared to 2009, according to estimates.
A glimpse into the craft brewing industry’s past set the stage for the record-breaking 28th annual Craft Brewers Conference March 23-26 in San Francisco.
So you’ve decided to make a barrel-aged beer. You’ve spent hours imagining the symphony of flavors that will be developed, but how do you get started?
Most common among the vessels employed in breweries are barrels that have been previously purposed with the storage of other beverages. How do you get them?
These days it seems everyone is talking about Brett, but what makes it so fascinating is that very little knowledge exists about this yeast and its use in brewing.