Author: Professor Good Ales

Mythical poster at The LTS Good for What Ales You Beer Journal. Loves good beer. Hates same old, same old. Muses that Bud and Miller might as well be brewed in urinals. Drinks lagers too, if they are complex and interesting.
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Molson Coors Attacks Craft Armada With $3.5 Billion Deal: Retail

Written by Clementine Fletcher for Bloomberg

 

Faced with an armada of smaller competitors, the world’s biggest brewers are getting bigger.

Molson Coors Brewing Co. (TAP) (TAP) yesterday joined international rivals such as SABMiller Plc and Heineken NV (HEIA) in expanding beyond their main territories as craft beers and imported brands seek to invade their traditional strongholds. The 2.65 billion-euro ($3.5 billion) purchase of StarBev LP will take Denver-based Molson into the Czech Republic, Hungary, Romania and Bulgaria.

“I can understand why they’d want to expand outside the U.S. and why they’d want to get into growth markets,” said Trevor Stirling, an analyst at Sanford C. Bernstein in London. The maker of Carling lager has “low penetration of craft and imports, which are the fastest-growing parts of the market.”
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Enegren Brewing

Written by Tom Becham for professorgoodales.net

About a year ago, Ventura County, California had yet another craft brewery open within its borders.  Enegren Brewing is located in the city of Moorpark.  It took me this long to get to Enegren simply because Moorpark is somewhat remote if you happen to live in western Ventura County.  Moorpark is a bedroom community for Simi Valley, and has traditionally been home to many Los Angeles commuters as well.  While not so sleepy as it has been in the past, due to proximity to the Reagan Presidential Library and numerous Hollywood types who now call Moorpark home, Moorpark still has a small town feel to it.  Indeed, my earliest childhood memory of Moorpark is the Egg City facility that used to be on its outskirts, which could be smelled from miles away.  That facility has been gone for years now, but Moorpark still frequently gets painted with that same brush.  Many people don’t get to Moorpark unless they specifically SET OUT for the town.
In short, Moorpark seems like a poor choice of location for starting up a new craft brewery.

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Beer Profile: Oliver Bean Blossom Raspberry Hard Cider

Profiled by Ken Carman for professorgoodales.net

I have fermented a raspberry cyser before, but this smells more like raspberry than mine. Nice. Clarity excellent: very light yellow with a lot of carbonation cling. Little to no head in small glasses. Slight apple aroma. Very light raspberry taste, very light on the palate. Apple taste in background: mouthfeel, light with decent, somewhat light carbonation mouthfeel. Raspberry in the mouthfeel too with some apple way in the back.
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This is a very light raspberry quaffe for a hot summer day. Very light and pleasing. Bottle: painted aluminum, is a GREAT collectible.

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Home Beer Brewers: Sharing Outside Home Illegal in SC

Written by Barbara Rodriguez for AP and USA Today

MADISON, Wis. (USA Today/AP) – About the only thing Kevin Flynn enjoys more than drinking his home-brewed beer is sharing it with fellow beer club members at festivals and tasting competitions. So Flynn and his buddies were shocked to discover that Wisconsin law prohibits sharing homemade suds anywhere outside the brewer’s home.

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Light Beer Fights for Life as Craft Brews Invade Shelves

Written by Duane D. Stanford for businessweek.com

At a beer industry summit last month, Ed McBrien, distribution chief for MillerCoors, compared himself to a typewriter salesman in an iPad age.

McBrien was sketching out plans to resurrect light beer, a $50 billion market battling to stay relevant as makers of craft beer, wine and spirits increasingly steal customers from Molson Coors Brewing Co. (TAP), SABMiller Plc (SAB) and Anheuser-Busch Inbev NV. (ABI)

Light beer is ceding ground as cabernet-loving baby boomers and millennials weaned on exotic cocktails seek more complex flavors in their brews. High unemployment among light beer drinkers also has prompted some to drink less or switch to cheaper brews. In a bid to return the froth to light beer, the U.S. joint venture between Molson Coors and SABMiller last week unveiled new advertising for a key brand, Miller Lite.
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Home Beer Brewers Seek Changes to Alcohol Laws

Written by Barbara Rodriguez for The Associated Press

Madison, Wis. (AP) — About the only thing Kevin Flynn enjoys more than drinking his home-brewed beer is sharing it with fellow beer club members at festivals and tasting competitions. So Flynn and his buddies were shocked to discover that Wisconsin law prohibits sharing homemade suds anywhere outside the brewer’s home.

The law could “pretty much be the end of competitions in Wisconsin,” he lamented. “At least legal ones.”

An explosion of interest in home brewing is forcing lawmakers across the country to review long-forgotten alcohol laws, some of which date back to Prohibition. Although the old rules have rarely been enforced, beer enthusiasts fear they could criminalize the rapidly growing hobby and kill scores of annual tasting events that bring tourists to small towns and cities.

In Wisconsin, Flynn and other home brewers may soon be off the hook. The state Legislature last week passed a bill to allow them to transport homemade beer and wine and to share it with other adults. Brewers will still not be permitted to sell anything they make, and they will remain exempt from permit requirements and taxes.

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