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Beer, Curry and Vomit
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by Chairman Mao 08/09/2009, 8:00am PDT |
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Fullofkittens wrote:
But then when I (dons hipstery glasses and a sportcoat with leather elbows) took a microbrewing class over at our local microbrewery (checks Twitter on iPhone), they had great things to say about Sam Adams as a company. Apparently when all the big US megabrewers were bought out by foreign interests, the foreign companies tried to force out all the local competition by buying up all the... hops? Malt? Some crucial ingredient. For a couple of months there was nothing that microbrewers could do to get all the ingredients they needed to keep going. Sam Adams responded by using their size to buy up a huge stockpile of the stuff, and now they sell it to all the microbrewers at cost.
The 2007-2008 Hop shortage. There was bad weather in Europe, rising fuel costs and in the US, dramatically declining acreage that combined to make hops extremely scarce and expensive. I could only brew a handful of times in 2008, and I was paying $10 or more an ounce for hops. Sam Adams opened its hop stockpiles to homebrew stores and more importantly to micro-breweries and brewpubs to keep them afloat. In the US, they recultivated 200,000 acres for hop production, but hop vines take three years to mature. Another bit of fallout from the insane corn ethanol fad. The transportation costs also impacted malts taking the cost of the average 5 gallon homebrew batch from $35 to about $75. |
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Just had a Sam Adams doppelbock by Entropy Stew 08/08/2009, 9:08pm PDT
Is that a good thing? NT by Fortinbras 08/08/2009, 9:12pm PDT
9.5abv!!!!!!!! NT by Entropy Stew 08/08/2009, 9:21pm PDT
That's even more than Molson XXX. O__________O NT by Creexuls, a monster >:3 08/08/2009, 9:23pm PDT
There is half a pound of malt in each bottle NT by Entropy Stew 08/08/2009, 9:28pm PDT
I am so happy right now NT by Entropy Stew 08/08/2009, 9:31pm PDT
The brew I just kegged is 12.7% ABV NT by Chairman Mao 08/08/2009, 10:53pm PDT
OOOOOOO NT by Creexuls, a monster >:3 08/08/2009, 11:07pm PDT
I drank a 12.8% NT by Caltrops Help Desk 08/09/2009, 12:29am PDT
You have only drank cola. NT by Chairman Mao 08/09/2009, 12:40am PDT
Sam Adams is a company troubling to my inner hipster. by Fullofkittens 08/09/2009, 4:43am PDT
a big business that doesn't fuck over the little guy? that's so hipster and not NT by Weyoun Voidbringer 08/09/2009, 5:00am PDT
Re: Sam Adams is a company troubling to my inner hipster. by Chairman Mao 08/09/2009, 8:00am PDT
I got a brew for you, Mao. My penis + your asian girlfriend. by Quétinbec 08/09/2009, 1:12pm PDT
Hahaha, you call it your penis? NT by Worm 08/09/2009, 1:24pm PDT
All you have left is limp potshots like this? NT by Chairman Mao 08/09/2009, 2:12pm PDT
How many dick-related puns can we make? GO. NT by Fortinbras 08/09/2009, 2:56pm PDT
Re: Sam Adams is a company troubling to my inner hipster. by Creexuls, a monster >:3 08/09/2009, 12:33pm PDT
IF YOU CAN'T TRY TO MEET ME HALFWAY CAN WE EVEN ANY KIND OF DIALOG NT by Fullofkittens 08/09/2009, 1:57pm PDT
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