I know my beloved Point Special Beer is brewed in beautiful downtown Stevens Point, WI. I'm in IL and can't even get it down here. So they still must be a micro brewery.
"I do not want to belong to any club that would have me as a memeber" Grouch Marx
here lately....well the past 4 months anyway Ive been really stuck on Fat Tire amber ale from New Belgium Brewering out of Ft. Collins, CO. There website is pretty nice, makes me want to visit and get to know the people who work there.
Posts: 5 | Location: Broken Arrow, OK USA | Registered: July 25, 2004
A-B has a 49% share in Redhook, and a 100% share of Widmer.
Samuel Adams is owned by Sam, but made at Miller plants, same as Pete's.
The taste definitely depends on which facility it is brewed at. The combination of water, different boiling temps reached sooner/slower in different tanks, the size of the fermentation tanks, and the speed at which fermentation starts all varies.
Also, many companies constantly tweak the product to suit changes in consumers tastes, or to capitalize on trends. For example, A-B knew that to gain a widespread appeal for Redhook, they would have to lighten it. The beer you taste today is much different from when it was produced in Fremont in Seattle.
Posts: 29 | Location: Olympia USA | Registered: May 31, 2004
quote:Originally posted by Ivanko: A-B has a 49% share in Redhook, and a 100% share of Widmer.
Not to be nitpicky or sound condescending, but AB only owns about 34% of Redhook (as of this month, but that will certainly keep escalating) and I'm almost positive they own nowhere near a 100% of Widmer Bros.
A good friend of mine is the New England sales and marketing manager for Redhook. I'll see him tomorrow night at the brewery and I'll run it by him. I am interseted in knowing AB's stake in WB's though. I know it's the same distribution agreement as the one AB and Redhook have, but but don't know what percent they own.
