Top Document: rec.food.drink.beer FAQ [2/3] (revised 16-MAY-1997) Previous Document: 2-7. What is CAMRA? Next Document: 2-9. What is a brewpub? See reader questions & answers on this topic! - Help others by sharing your knowledge According to the Institute of Brewing there are four categories as follows: Large Brewers - Production in excess of 500,000 barrels/year Regional Brewers - Production between 15,000 and 500,000 bbl/yr Microbrewers - Production less than 15,000 bbl/yr Brewpubs - Production for onsite consumption only In addition you may see/hear the term pico-brewer which is used to describe brewers so small that distribution is limited to pubs and bars in their immediate area. To complicate matters their are contract brewers. These companies develop a recipe and then "buy" excess capacity at a large brewery to have their beer made for them. They, then, market and distribute the finished product. Some of these can be quite large. The Boston Beer Co., which brews the Sam Adams line, is a good example of a large contract brewer. To give you a better perspective here are some examples with 1993 production figures (barrels per year): Large Brewers: Anheuser-Busch - 93,000,000 Miller - 49,000,000 Coors - 25,000,000 Regional Brewers: Boston Beer - 450,000 Sierra Nevada - 104,325 Anchor - 92,000 Pete's - 74,000 Microbrewers: Summit - 10,500 Celis - 10,500 Yakima(Grant's) - 8,000 Brewpubs: Wynkoop - 4,200 Gordon Biersch (No. 3) - 2,700 Great Lakes - 2,700 User Contributions:Top Document: rec.food.drink.beer FAQ [2/3] (revised 16-MAY-1997) Previous Document: 2-7. What is CAMRA? Next Document: 2-9. What is a brewpub? Part1 - Part2 - Part3 - Single Page [ Usenet FAQs | Web FAQs | Documents | RFC Index ] Send corrections/additions to the FAQ Maintainer: John Lock <jlock@mindspring.com>
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