The 2011 Craft Beer Trend Is To Pull Out Of States And Partial Markets
Beer has existed for just about as long as wine has but the evolutionary changes of the beer world has caused a shift in the drinking habits of the common beer drinker. Macro brewed adjunct lagers have dominated the beer industry for fifty years but times are changing for the mass conglomerate beer industry with the mainstream movement of craft beer.
Craft beer is brewed by craft brewers. These microbreweries produce small, independent, and traditional beer. Small refers to six million barrels of beer or less. Independent refers to 25% or less of the craft brewery is owned or controlled by someone who is not a brewer themselves. Traditional refers to having an all malt flag ship beer or 50% of it’s volume through all malt beers or beers that use adjuncts to enhance the flavor of their product rather than for cheaper ingredients.
Colorado Beer Week
Colorado is considered the Mecca for craft beer in the United States and it’s not wonder why. Home to more than 100 breweries (2008 BA statistics) and Colorado produces more beer than any other state. The BA (Brewers Association) is located in Colorado too. The BA is a non-profit organization that controls and regulates the beer world from microbreweries to macro breweries. The Great American Beer Fest (GABF) is held in Colorado as well; this being the largest beer festival in the United States and second largest in the world. It’s no wonder another beer festival is about to begin; the first annual Colorado Beer Week.
Colorado Beer Week begins April 8th – 16th. This is meant to be a week of celebrating all that’s amazing about ales, lagers, and craft beer. All day and night for a week you’ll have the opportunity to taste amazing Colorado microbreweries and their amazing beers across downtown Denver. From beer tastings, food pairings, cruiser crawls, rare releases, celebrity tappings, charity golf tournament, and vertical tastings. There are a lot of events going on this week and you shouldn’t miss a single one.
What It Means To Be A Beer Bar
There has never been a better time for the world of beer than today. The choices you have when it comes to what you want to drink is limitless. This is a renaissance for the beer industry and one where craft beer drinkers help sway what breweries produce. Since the movement of craft beer is grassroots, it’s taken nearly 30 years for beer drinkers to have a choice in what they choose to drink. While choice remains mainly in liquor, wine, and spirit stores, many establishments are opening up that allow beer drinkers to continue to enjoy their craft beer in a public setting.
Enter beer bars. The typical bar has been in existence for over 100 years serving basic bar food and a slew of macro brewed crap (light lagers, pale color, no flavor, all fizz). With the renaissance of the beer industry through craft beer the typical bar while still relevant is a dying breed. Beer bars are popping up left and right and giving your typical bar a run for it’s money. Not only are basic bars feeling the competition so are the large macro brewing companies, Anheuser Busch, Miller, and Coors who are losing market share to microbreweries.
Top 10 Most Memorable Beers of the Year – 2010
As a contributor to Butter’s Fine Food and Wine’s food blog, I can’t help but think that writing about beer for a well-known, high-end, gourmet food store can’t be a bad gig. I get to try all kinds of beer from all over the world and hope that someday, the beers I enjoy the most, will pass the NH liquor bureaucrat’s sniff test and that those bureaucrats will bless those beers onto the shelves of fine NH craft beer outlets. There is a bottle-neck bringing new beer labels into the state right now because of an immense cost to the brewery per label, but let’s not go there today. Today, I’d like to focus on my Top 10 Most Memorable Beers of 2010.
Most brews that I am about to describe made the list because there was something memorable about the beer. It might have been a special moment that surrounded the beer or a flavor that left me wanting more. Regardless, there is something special to me about each of the beers on this list. I started cataloging each beer that I tasted this year by snapping a picture using Blackberry Smartphone and then uploading that picture to Facebook. Prior to that, I just used my memory. And well, after 40 years and hundreds of varieties of beer later, I just don’t trust the old method as much as I used to.
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