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Happy belated New Year to all of our friends and fellow beer lovers. Ian and I expect 2008 to be a great year for us. We currently have plans to host a Belgian Beer Education night (on January 24th) and we are setting our schedules for the upcoming year. <\/span><\/p>\n 2007 was kind to us. We accomplished our goal of creating a quality website with solid beer data. With the flurry of blogs, we have learned more about the beer industry. [we hope that you have enjoyed them -yeah… the ones that you have read] We have reached over 8000 website hits, reviewed microbrews from over 101 different breweries, and we are amazingly close to reaching out 500th beer review mark. It’s been a fun time and we are glad to have experienced it with many of you who are reading this now. <\/span><\/p>\n For the Belgian Beer tasting, there will be a separate blog with all of the details. It will cost around $25 and a bunch of different Belgian Beers will be had. If you are interested in attending [there is a limit of ~21 participants], please send us an email. <\/span><\/p>\n We are also thinking about the 500th beer review. We have been holding on to a mother load of Barley Wines and hope to have a blind style tasting. Our official 2 year anniversary occurs at the End of January and we hope to have the tasting around that time. If you are interested in participating, again – please send us an email or drop a comment on the feedback form.<\/span><\/p>\n Good Morning, Good Evening, and Good Night.<\/span><\/p>\n Sean<\/span> Drink Craft Beer, You’ve Earned It.<\/span><\/p>\n p.s. I have collected some beer statistics from 2007 and posted them below.<\/p>\n Interesting mix of 2007 Stats \u00e2\u20ac\u00a2 1.4 percent of the U.S. gross domestic product comes from beer making. U.S. BREWERIES AT A GLANCE<\/span> CRAFT BEER SALES*<\/span> DO THE MATH<\/span> Happy belated New Year to all of our friends and fellow beer lovers. Ian and I expect 2008 to be a great year for us. We currently have plans to host a Belgian Beer Education night (on January 24th) and we are setting our schedules for the upcoming year. 2007 was kind to us. We […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":7369,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[92],"tags":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"http:\/\/2beerguys.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/01\/seanpost142.jpg","_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/2beerguys.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/342"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/2beerguys.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/2beerguys.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/2beerguys.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/2beerguys.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=342"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/2beerguys.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/342\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/2beerguys.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/7369"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/2beerguys.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=342"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/2beerguys.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=342"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/2beerguys.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=342"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}
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\n\u00e2\u20ac\u00a2 Southern folks prefer a smoother, lighter beer that’s slightly sweeter, while West Coast residents like their beer with more of a hop flavor.
\n\u00e2\u20ac\u00a2 You can get a smoother, less-bitter-tasting beer if you add your hops near the end of the brewing process.<\/p>\n
\nThe nation’s 1,390 beer makers, big and small, produce more than 210 million barrels amounting to $94 billion in annual sales. A look at the industry:
\n– Regional craft breweries: 48
\n– Microbreweries: 375
\n– Brewpubs: 967
\nTotal craft breweries: 1,390
\n– Large breweries: 20
\n– Regional breweries: 25
\n– Other non-craft breweries: 7
\nTotal U.S. breweries: 1,442<\/p>\n
\n\u00e2\u20ac\u00a2 Southeast: Up 33.9 percent
\n\u00e2\u20ac\u00a2 Northeast: Up 18.9 percent
\n\u00e2\u20ac\u00a2 Plains: Up 16.3 percent
\n\u00e2\u20ac\u00a2 West: Up 8.1 percent
\n*Annual growth from July 2006 to July 2007<\/p>\n
\n\u00e2\u20ac\u00a2 1 barrel = 31 U.S. gallons
\n\u00e2\u20ac\u00a2 2 half-barrel kegs = 13.78 cases (of 24, 12-ounce bottles)
\n\u00e2\u20ac\u00a2 50 barrels = 1 batch or 500 to 600 cases of beer<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"