The Boston Beer Company is an American brewery founded in 1984 by James "Jim" Koch and Rhonda Kallman. Boston Beer Company's first brand of beer was named Samuel Adams after Founding Father Samuel Adams,an American revolutionary patriot. Since its founding,Boston Beer has started several other brands,and in 2019 completed a merger with Dogfish Head Brewery.
Big Rock Brewery is a Canadian public company and the largest brewery that is based in Calgary,Alberta,Canada. As of March 2020,it was also Canada's largest craft brewery. Additional brewing operations are located in Vancouver,British Columbia;Etobicoke,Ontario;and Liberty Village in Toronto,Ontario. Big Rock distributes a variety of beers and ciders throughout Canada.
The U.S. state of Oregon is home to more than 200 breweries and brew pubs that produce a large variety of beer.
Foster's Group Pty. Ltd. was an Australian beer group with interests in brewing and soft drinks,known for Foster's Lager,now called Carlton &United Breweries since the company was renamed in 2011. Foster's was founded in 1888 in Melbourne,Victoria by two American brothers,who sold the brewery a year later.
India pale ale (IPA) is a hoppy beer style within the broader category of pale ale.
Castle Brewery is one of the oldest commercial breweries in South Africa. As company-endorsed legend would have it,the company was founded by Charles Glass in Johannesburg in 1894. UCT history professor Anne Kelk Mager has argued that the official SAB story overemphasized the role of Charles and that it was his wife Lisa Glass who was primarily responsible for the creation of Castle. It later merged with other breweries to form South African Breweries,which still later merged with Miller of the United States to form SABMiller.
Beer was introduced to Canada by European settlers in the seventeenth century. The first commercial brewery was La Brasseries du Roy started by New France Intendant Jean Talon,in Québec City in 1668. Many commercial brewers thrived until prohibition in Canada. The provincial and federal governments' attempt to eliminate "intoxicating" beverages led to the closing of nearly three quarters of breweries between 1878 and 1928. It was only in the second half of the twentieth century that a significant number of new breweries opened up. The Canadian beer industry now plays an important role in Canadian identity,although globalization of the brewing industry has seen the major players in Canada acquired by or merged with foreign companies,notably its three largest beer producers:Labatt,Molson and Sleeman. The result is that Moosehead,with an estimated 3.8 percent share of the domestic market in 2016,has become the largest fully Canadian-owned brewer.
Widmer Brothers is a brewery founded in 1984 in Portland,Oregon,by brothers Kurt and Robert Widmer. It is part of the Craft Brew Alliance,Inc.,the 12th largest brewing company in the United States in 2017.
Spoetzl Brewery is a brewery located in Shiner,Texas,United States. It produces a diverse line of Shiner beers,including their flagship Shiner Bock,a dark lager that is now distributed throughout the US. The brewery is owned by the Gambrinus Company,a family-owned company based in San Antonio,which also owns Trumer Brewery in Berkeley,California.
Olde English 800 is a brand of American malt liquor brewed by the Miller Brewing Company. It was introduced in 1964,and has been produced by the company since 1999. It is available in a variety of serving sizes including,since the late 1980s,a 40-U.S.-fluid-ounce (1,200-milliliter) bottle.
In the United States,beer is manufactured in breweries which range in size from industry giants to brew pubs and microbreweries. The United States produced 196 million barrels (23.0 GL) of beer in 2012,and consumes roughly 28 US gallons (110 L) of beer per capita annually. In 2011,the United States was ranked fifteenth in the world in per capita consumption,while total consumption was second only to China.
Genesee Brewing Company is an American brewery located along the Genesee River in Rochester,New York. From 2000 to 2009,the company was known as the High Falls Brewing Company. In 2009,High Falls was acquired by the capital investment firm KPS Capital. Together with newly acquired Labatt USA,KPS merged the two companies as North American Breweries. Along with this change,High Falls Brewery changed its name back to the original "Genesee Brewing Company" operating under the North American Breweries name. In October 2012,North American Breweries was purchased by FIFCO.
Big Sky Brewing Company is a brewery and taproom located in Missoula,Montana. It is owned by three partners,Bjorn Nabozney,Neal Leathers,and Brad Robinson. It is Montana's largest brewery. It first opened its doors in 1995 on 120-A Hickory Street,but eventually moved to its current location at 5417 Trumpeter Way. The brewery features both seasonal and regular ales and has continued to function under the same owners for twenty-three years.
BridgePort Brewing Company was a brewery in Portland,Oregon,in the United States. It operated from 1984 until 2019. Brewery operations ceased in February 2019,and the brew pub closed on March 10,2019.
Blue Moon Belgian White is a Belgian-style witbier brewed by Molson Coors under the name the Blue Moon Brewing Co. It was launched in 1995,and was originally brewed in Golden,Colorado.
SABMiller was one of the top five global brewing companies,and had a range of over 150 beers,including international beers such as Pilsner Urquell,and Miller Genuine Draft,and local ones such as Gambrinus and Castle Milk Stout.
Kona Brewing Hawaii is a brewery and pub headquartered in Kailua-Kona on Hawaii's Big Island with a sister location in Hawai‘i Kai on O‘ahu. Formerly owned by Craft Brew Alliance,Kona is now owned by PV Brewing Partners since September 2020. The state-of-the-art brewery on Hawai‘i Island produces approximately 10 styles of beer that are brewed on a regular basis and served only to the local Hawai‘i market at Kona Brewing Hawaii’s locally-operated pubs in Kailua-Kona and Hawai‘i Kai,along with restaurants all over the islands.
Anheuser-Busch,a wholly owned subsidiary of Anheuser-Busch InBev SA/NV,is the largest brewing company in the United States,with a market share of 45 percent in 2016.
The Devils Backbone Brewing Company is a brewpub located in Roseland,Virginia,owned by Anheuser-Busch InBev. It was established in 2008 by Steven Crandall. In 2012,a 15,000 square foot production facility and tap room,referred to as "The Outpost",was established near Lexington,Virginia. In 2016,the company was purchased by Anheuser-Busch InBev,meaning that Devils Backbone Brewing Company would no longer meet the Brewers Association definition of a "craft brewery",since ownership by Anheuser-Busch InBev exceeds the definition's 25% maximum ownership by a non-craft brewery.
pFriem Family Brewers is a craft brewery in Hood River,Oregon,known for its Belgian and Northwest-style ales.
