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Brewers Association Releases Top 50 Breweries List Boulder, Colo. • April 7, 2008 – The Brewers Association, which tabulates industry growth data, announced its annual list of the top fifty brewing companies. Released are both a Top 50 Craft Brewing Companies¹ list and a list of the Top 50 Overall Brewing Companies. Statistics are based on sales in 2007. "The majority of breweries in the U.S. are independent craft brewers who continue to push the envelope in flavor and diversity and who continue to set the pace for the beer category," states Paul Gatza, Director of the Brewers Association. "In 2007, 1,406 of the ... Read Full Story

Flying Dog Brewery based in Frederick, Maryland, has come up with a clever innovation for packaging their Canis Major series of high-gravity beers. The bottling line at their facility is capable, I understand, of accomodating a wide range of bottle sizes, so the Flying Dog folks have decided to package these big beers in not-so big bottles! The Canis Major beers will be available in a cool mixed 8-pack of 7 oz. bottles! This makes sense in a lot of ways, especially when you want to imbibe in a high-alcohol brew without feeling like you have to polish off an entire 12oz bottle in ... Read Full Story

With the increasing popularity of food and beer pairings, Flying Dog Brewery’s new resource website provides the latest information and ideas on the emerging craft beer trend.   BeerDinners.com is dedicated to educating craft beer connoisseurs on the “ns and outs” of custom meals prepared with the intention of accentuating each course with a particular style of beer, specifically chosen by the chef. According to Flying Dog Director of Marketing Neal Stewart, “On BeerDinners.com you can learn exactly what a beer dinner is and how to find one at a restaurant.   We’re even offering complete menus prepared by a professional chef for those ... Read Full Story

Denver ’s Flying Dog Brewery is set to release their Fall seasonal Dogtoberfest.   The Denver-based brewery’s third seasonal of the year is a traditional-style Marzen, brewed with 100% imported German ingredients.   Dogtoberfest’s grist includes a mix of Light and Dark Munich and Vienna malts.   It’s hopped with German Perle and Hersbrucker hops and is lager fermented.   Flying Dog’s Head Brewer, Matt Brophy says that Dogtoberfest is unique from other Fall seasonals, “We use a blend of five different German malts to give this lager a complex and satisfying malt character.   Combined with our proprietary yeast strain, it strikes the ... Read Full Story

Sam Adams unveils chocolate dessert beer : “Brewing Samuel Adams Chocolate Bock with Cru Sauvage cacao nips creates a dark, decadent beer with a big, malty character, complex full-body taste and velvety finish,” the company said in the press release. “Samuel Adams Chocolate Bock is the perfect accompaniment to any holiday meal or can simply be enjoyed on its own as a dessert.” With “malty character” it must be made special for Malty … Read Full Story