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Brewing in the Shenandoah Valley - Molson Coors new brew plant in Virginia, USA
By: Roger Putman
01/02/2008
One thing which has always struck me whilst flying over the United States is how there can be miles and miles of ‘not a lot’ and then a concentration of steaming chimney stacks and then a lot more of ‘not very much’. In Virginia’s Shenandoah Valley I saw this industrial decentralisation in action again but this time at ground level in some beautiful countryside.
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George Washington’s distillery
01/02/2008
15 The BREWER & DISTILLER INTERNATIONAL • Volume 4 • Issue 2 • February 2008 • www.ibd.org.uk A patriotic visit for our cousins across the Atlantic is George Washington’s old home at Mount Vernon on the outskirts of the capital which now bears his name. Over one million visitors snake around the house learning that George was six foot two and Martha only four foot eleven tall and that the pair had almost 700 visitors staying overnight in a single year and that was when he was not even President! What surprised me was the view across the lawns down to the broad Potomac River and the wooded bluffs on the other side – how did they manage to retain such a superb and unspoiled view so close to a capital city?
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Location, Location, Location - Brewing in the Clear Creek Valley
By: Dave Thomas
01/02/2008
Travelling west from Denver towards the Coors Golden Brewery one goes as far west as one can before being forced up a narrow winding canyon road leading to the Continental Divide. The brewery is nestled in Clear Creek Valley bordered on the west by Lookout Mountain (elevation 2,248m) and on the north and south by twin flat-topped Table Mountains at 1,980m elevation. The Table Mountains were created by a single lava flow 65 million years ago and cleaved in half by the steady erosion of the Clear Creek flow. These geological events also produced dozens of artesian springs in the valley which lured Adolph Coors to establish his brewery there in 1873.
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India takes off
By: Simon Jackson
01/02/2008
It has been a little long in coming but the prophecy that the Indian beer market would take off is now finally coming true. The inward investment by some of the major global brewers has steadily increased over the past five years and the longer term view that they have taken seems set to be entering the ‘payback’ phase. Interest in the Indian Beer market has increased to such levels that Munich based drinktec felt confident enough to take their ‘brand’ to Mumbai for a two day exhibition, together with a symposium and workshops.
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Legionella – we must remain vigilant
By: Kevin Woolnough
01/02/2008
Microbiological lab services company Eurofins has seen a growing number of samples being tested positive for Legionella bacteria.
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What made Milwaukee famous… A trip to see the IBD President
By: Roger Putman
01/02/2008
Milwaukee sits on the western shores of Lake Michigan some 90 miles north of Chicago. Along with Burton on Trent and Munich, it has often been badged as the ‘beer capital of the world’. The city was home to Pabst, Schlitz, Miller and Blatz, some of America’s largest brewers. Yet brewing historians are not sure what allowed it to become so famous but one thing is certain; they have never written songs about Burton on Trent!