Who brews it anyway?

You might be interested in knowing that sometime soon 21st Amendment will be brewing their own beers (vs. brewing at Cold Springs). The broke ground on their new brewery a few months ago (July 10. 2014): http://21st-amendment.com/breaking-ground-in-san-leandro/

I seem to recall that they made the decision for a change due to beer quality reasons. Oh, here is the quote: “Building our own local brewery will allow us to continue to focus on improving quality and consistency, and to expand into new markets where our beer is in demand.”

Above is from: http://www.beeradvocate.com/communi...leandro-california-production-brewery.154331/

Cheers!

 

A local had 12 packs of Guinness Extra Stout on sale for $12. I picked it up knowing full well where it was brewed and damn -- if I didn't like it as much as I always have!

 

In the days of InBev we used to say Beck's is brewed from English ingredients by a Belgian company and sold as German!

A sore point among many drinkers in the UK is that Greene King has taken over many breweries and purports to still brew them.So from one street in Bury StEdmunds comes Ruddle's , Morland's , Ridley's , Tolly Cobbold's and Hardy's & Hanson's.All of course brewed by Greene King and only superficially resembling the original beers of the same names.

 

At least it's truly 'imported' if it comes from Canada .

 

You also see "brewed in the EU" a lot.

 

@jesskidden

Isn't Heineken and Bass brewed somewhere in New York?

Cheers

 

The Guinness brewed in the US was Guinness Extra Stout, while the imported Guinness in the US at the time (before, after and actually during the time they had the US brewery in L.I.C., NY) was Guinness Foreign Extra Stout. You can see a pamphlet and a letter explaining it - along with labels - on my page Guinness in America.

Yeah, but there have been examples of breweries licensing a brand name (i.e., "brewed under license") and brewing a beer different from the original/domestic version. The most infamous being Miller's version of Lowenbrau in the 1970-1990's, and there was even a Lowenbrau Malt Liquor line extension. And Guinness licensed Goebel in the US to brew Guinness Ale and a Guinness Lager Beer in the 1950's as noted in my Guinness page I linked to above.

And Carling's>Heileman's US-brewed Tuborg Gold of the same era was not the same recipe as Danish Carlsberg's Tuborg. In addition, many imports into the US have been "export versions" brewed to appeal to what the brewers thought US imported beer drinkers expected - sometimes with added adjuncts for "lightness", sometimes with a higher ABV, etc. Classic example was the imported and domestically-brewed (by BBC and The Lion) versions of Mackeson Triple Stout, but also beers like Bass, various Guinness stouts, Smithwicks, and, supposedly, Beck's exported to the US were different recipes/export versions than those sold in their home countries.

Another example of the "not brewed domestically" beers are/were ABInBev's US-brewed Alexander Keith labels -
Nova Scotia Style Lager - Nova Scotia Style Pale Ale - The Nova Scotia Style Brown Ale

Bass Ale, as an ABInBev-owned brand, is brewed in AB's Baldwinsville, NY brewery (as is [or, maybe, was?] another example for the OP - a Bass Stout).

But Heineken is still strictly a Dutch import in the US as it always has been (well, supposedly, it was briefly imported from Heineken's brewery in Java during WWII but that soon ended as the war in the Pacific heated up).

 

I was shocked to hear That the Budweiser factory in St Louis brews for Sam Adams. I found out by seeing a Boston lager tap at the Budweiser Bar at the St. Louis Airport

 

I can't find the documentation, but isn't Shipyard's Old Thumper the same recipe as the UK Ringwood Brewery's Old Thumper? I know Alan Pugsley studied with Ringwood's brewer, Peter Austin and got permission to brew the beer here in the US.

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I can't tell if this is an attempt at facetiousness, but I'm pretty sure A-B doesn't brew beer for the Boston Beer Co. From Wikipedia alone:

As @jesskidden has oft posted.

*We like to call those breweries, but since you were referencing A-B I think it can slide.

 

Wow then that's really impressive how they can still get that signature skunked beyond all hell aroma and flavor Beck's is known for without even having it shipped across the pond. They must age the beer in those green glass bottles for at least six months in order to accomplish that feat. Either that or they lay it out in uncovered vats in direct sunlight for a couple weeks before bottling.

 

That would be shocking! At one point Sam Adams was contract brewed by Miller, and a few others, but never by Anheuser-Busch.

 

Or your retailer is screwing you by leaving all of those green bottles on the top shelf under all the light.

 

It would be interesting to have @Sixpoint weigh in on this, since I know they are engaged in this site often.

 

He already did. I linked to Sixpoint's reply about using City - Memphis after leaving The Lion in my post.
http://www.beeradvocate.com/community/threads/favorite-sixpoint-brew.154141/page-11#post-2450691

 

So, because you found a Samuel Adams brand beer at a bar operated by HMSHost (which also runs the Bell's Brewhouse restaurant at a Michigan airport) that apparently licenses the "Budweiser" brand and other AB trademarks, you assume SA beer was brewed by AB?

 

You know if you walk in and pick your beer up at the brewery it pretty much solves all the problems at least here in NH it does!