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Wednesday, July 16, 2008
Samuel Adams crowned new king of American beers
With the sale of Anheuser-Busch to Belgium’s InBev out of the way, it’s time to take a look at American brewing. Pabst becomes the fourth largest beermaker in the States by volume, but the thing is they don’t actually brew it themselves. Pabst contracts with Miller to have the beer made at Miller’s breweries. In terms of companies that own and operate a brewery to brew their own beers in the United States, this means that now Boston Beer Co. which brews Samuel Adams is No. 1 followed by Pennsylvania’s Yuengling (and America’s oldest brewery) at No. 2 and Sierra Nevada at No. 3. Read more about it here if you like here. Lounge Lizards thoughts: The top American brewer will actually make good beer? Now that’s something to toast. What do you think?
And related to this: Here’s the news story about Belgium brewer InBev purchasing Anheuser Busch, the largest beer company in the United States, for $52 billion dollars.
On the subject of who makes better beer, Belgium or the United States, here are some local readers thoughts on the matter. Read through and feel free to add your thoughts to the conversation.
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