February-28-2013 10:35 Filed in:
Beer | TriviaDays until Founders Brewing Company releases Kentucky Breakfast Stout at its tap room: 28.
What Founders charges for a 12-pack of KBS: $62 (includes the $5 charge for a release ticket).
Highest reported bid on eBay for a release ticket: over $500.
Beer brands owned by AB InBev and SABMiller: 210.
Countries in which those brands are headquartered: 42.
Number of monks at St. Sixtus Abbey in Vleteren, Belgium: 21.
St. Sixtus’s annual production of Westvleteren 12: about 4,200 barrels.
Price of a six-pack of Westvleteren at the abbey: $27 U.S.
Percent of Myanmar’s males who call themselves “drinkers”: 50.
Percent who say they have five or more drinks daily: 25.
Germany’s beer consumption last year: 82.3 million barrels.
Percent of that beer that was served with cola and juice: 4.5.
Estimated cost of the Michigan Brewers Guild’s Winter Beer Festival: $175,000.
Cost of the beer itself: $90,000.
The Guild’s profit margin on the festival: 30 percent.
Tags: AB-InBev | Founders Brewing Company | Germany | Kentucky Breakfast Stout | Michigan Brewers Guild | Myanmar | SABMiller | St. Sixtus Abbey | Westvleteren | Winter Beer Festival
November-22-2011 19:40 Filed in:
Bars and Pubs | Beer | Industry NewsA Belgian company plans to open “Belgian Beer Cafes”, establishments with the look and feel of a 1920s Belgian beer cafe, in ten American cities. However, the idea has drawn criticism. That’s because the Belgian company is AB-InBev, the world’s largest brewer.
Some Belgians are afraid that InBev is so big that it will harm the reputation of Belgian beer. Others, like microbrewery owner Yvan De Baets, see the cafes as the 21st-century version of faux-Irish pubs that have sprung up around the world. De Baets insists that a Belgian beer cafe can’t be built in five minutes, adding that “It’s generations of owners and customers that build the place, and then give a soul to it.”
Tags: AB-InBev | The Belgian Beer Cafe | Yvan De Baets
