Hello everyone. You may have noticed that some breweries have a "Beer Finder" page on their site that lets you see recent deliveries by location. The most common provider of this service is Vermont Information Processing which uses a 3 digit code to correspond with the client (brewery in this case) name. I have found, guessed, and otherwise discovered the code for several breweries and I've listed them here. The best use of these is to find when a seasonal beer has been delivered near you so you can get it fresh. Or maybe you have a trip in another state and you want to know if certain breweries are available there. Please note that these are not 100% accurate and deliveries don't show up on these sites for about 2 days so it probably won't help you get whales that disappear off the shelf in one day. Here is a list of functional beer finders from VIP: Ale Asylum Anchor Avery Belhaven Bell's * Breckenridge Boulevard * The Bruery Cigar City Deschutes Dogfish Head Epic Firestone Walker Founders Great Divide Great Lakes Green Flash Guinness Jailbreak Lonerider Main Beer Company New Glarus * North Coast * Old Dominion Oskar Blues * Samuel Adams * Summit Tallgrass Uinta Victory * Yards Brewing Co. * These beer finders only work through the brewery website. # Not sure if these are through VIP. Arrogant Bastard New Belgium Stone I'm sure there are others. Post them here and I'll add them to the list.
I'm going to waste a lot of time on this. HNK = Heineken and includes Amstel, Dos Equis, Newcastle, Strongbow, Buckler, Red Stripe, Sol.
GAM = Gambrinus (Shiner) BRO = Bronx Brewery FXM = FX Matt (Saranac) ABT = Abita AUG = August Shell's -> Direct Link: http://schellsbrewery.com/beer-locator/ SHI = ?? (Hofbrauhaus, Dinkelacker, Staropramen)
Looks like I can't edit the original post anymore. Maybe I'll put a webpage on dropbox or something. August Shell's * Bronx Brewery FX Matt (Saranac) Gambrinus (Shiner) Heineken (Amstel, Dos Equis, Newcastle, Strongbow, Buckler, Red Stripe, Sol) Sierra Nevada ?? (Hofbrauhaus, Dinkelacker, Staropramen) Haha, I know I sure did. Still can't figure out the code for Bell's. I have the codes for all the other ones, even though you have to go through the brewery website.
ODE = Odell -> Direct Link: https://www.odellbrewing.com/beer-finder/ RAL = Rogue FDB = Flying Dog NIN = Ninkasi LHB = Left Hand TRO = Troegs LCB = Lost Coast
BRB = Bear Republic CNB = Coronado CBA = Craft Brew Alliance (Kona, Redhook, Widmer Brothers, Omission, KCCO) LAB = Cerveceria Costa Rica (Labatt, Magic Hat, Genesee, Pyramid, Dundee) ALA = Alaskan FUL = Full Sail SUR= Surly SMU = Smuttynose MSB = Mission UNI= Unibroue
STA = St. Arnold SHP = 3 Sheeps ELY = Elysian NEB = New Belgium NHB = New Holland CCB = Clipper City/Heavy Seas BIG = Big Sky FFB = Flying Fish SHB = Starr Hill
Thanks for all the additional breweries. I'll put them all on a Google Site at https://sites.google.com/site/brewfinders/ I'm kind of annoyed how many names were taken/rejected on Google Sites, despite not actually being active (/beerfinder, /beerfinders, /findbeer, /findbeers, /brewfinder...).
This is great! Going to be a big help when I travel to Minneapolis over the holidays - I was looking for an easy way to find some Bruery,
OK, the page should be working now. Let me know if you have any additions, updates, or corrections. https://sites.google.com/site/brewfinders/
I assume we are all familiar with seekabrew? Probably would work well in combination with this new google list. http://www.seekabrew.com/distro/index.html
Wow, that is fantastic. I have not seen that site before. Thanks. Just think if SeekABrew linked to the beerfinder pages directly. Couldn't be that hard to add a spreadsheet column. I wonder if they'd consider that. Maybe add the FreshBeerOnly info, as well.
How does this not have more likes? This is an awesome compilation @stingray ! I for sure will make use of it and appreciate it and your freshness dating compilation. One question, where is it you enter a new unknown 3 letter code to try and guess other breweries?
First off, you're welcome. I'm glad you like it. Second, the FreshBeerOnly page is not my work. That belongs to someone else. I believe he's on BA somewhere but I don't recall his name. Third, you can try out combinations with the following url: http://www.vtinfo.com/PF/product_finder.asp?custID=XXX Replace the XXX with three capital letters and see if you have any luck. I don't believe Weyerbacher has this feature available since they only show a distribution map on their site.
The mybeerhaul site allows you to non only search distribution but each brewery also has its own site that includes additional info (e.g., links to BA, social media, etc.), as well as a link to each a brewery's beer finder (Dogfish Head for example, click on the magnifying glass).
