American beer

History

beginnings

The brewing tradition in England and the Netherlands (as brought to New York) ensured that the colonies would be dominated by beer drinking, rather than wine. By the middle of the 19th Century, Ales dominated American brewing. This changed when the recently developed lager styles, from German immigrants, proved to be profitable for large manufacturing and shipping. Names such as Miller, Pabst, Schlitz and was known by the breweries they founded or acquired, and many others followed. Czech and Irish immigrants and their contributions to American beer.

The lager brewed by these companies was not the extremely mild lager now in connection with the modern U.S. megabreweries. Instead, it is the classic American Pilsner was a much stronger beer, both in taste and alcohol.

Prohibition

All American brews came to a halt if ban was imposed, although the abstinence movement had already reduced the number of breweries. Few breweries, especially the largest, were able to stay in business by producing near beer, malt syrup, or other non-alcohol grain products, in addition to non-alcoholic beverages such as cola drinks and Root beer. Production and shipment of alcohol was largely due to illegal activities, the compact could be distilled drinks - smuggled rum and domestic policy moonlight - more efficient and more reliable than bulky products such as beer.

Post Prohibition

Before the American beer industry could re-establish the Second World War began. This hinders the further re-emergence of smaller breweries, breweries and pushed the use cheaper ingredients, which are not rationed. For more than fifty years after the end of Prohibition, the United States beer market was heavily influenced by large commercial breweries, beer produce more for their unity, than for a specific taste. Beers such as Anheuser-Busch and Coors Brewing Company followed by a limited Pilsner style, with large industrial processes and the use of low-cost ingredients such as corn or ingredients such as rice, the strength of alcohol production while minimal variation to the finished product. The dominance of the so-called "macrobrew" led to an international stereotype of the "American Beer", as poor in quality and taste. The term "Budmilloors," was popular with many beer lovers to describe this mass-produced beers. But in recent years the largest breweries have tried on the development of premium brands in the European tradition as Killian's Irish Red and Budweiser Select.

Resurgence of craft brewing

The revival of commercial craft brewing industry in the 1980s, the United States now many beers, offered by more than 1400 brewpubs, microbreweries, regional breweries such as The Firehouse Brewing Company (San Diego), Sierra Nevada Brewing Company (Chico, California) and New Belgium (Fort Collins, Colorado), and contract-brewed brands such as Samuel Adams. In many eastern Pennsylvania, including Philadelphia, an order for "camp" is assumed refers to Yuengling Traditional camp, a flavorful beer from a regional brewery in Pottsville, Pennsylvania, founded in 1829, making it the oldest American family-owned company operating brewery, About ban. Also in California, an order for "Pale Ale" is assumed refers to Firehouse American Pale Ale or Sierra Nevada Pale Ale.

While the volume of macrobrews still dominate the smaller producers brew in a variety of styles influenced by the local sources of hops and other ingredients and various European traditions. The success of the commercial craft brewing industry has a great breweries invest in smaller breweries such as Widmer Brothers, and the development of complex beers from their own.

BeerVana

Portland, Oregon, has earned the name of Vana Beer brewers with more than any other city in the world, with 33 breweries only within the city limits. [] The McMenamin brothers alone has more than thirty brewpubs, distilleries and wineries scattered throughout the metropolitan region area, many in renovated theaters and other old buildings otherwise destined for demolition. Other notable Portland breweries, Widmer Brothers, Bridgeport Brewing Company and MacTarnahan's Brewing Company. In 1999, "beerhunter" and author Michael Jackson called Portland a candidate for the beer capital of the world, because the city boasted more breweries than Cologne, Germany.

Hopheads

Hophead in American slang is a beer drinker, preferably highly hopped brews. Hopheads often a great joy in India Pale Ales, Double India Pale Ales, and other beers in the hoppy West Coast style. The term can be used either by a claims she is a hophead, or perhaps in a derogatory way by a less affectionate toward hoppy beer. A good example of a beer aimed at hopheads is Stone IPA Hopfarmer destruction or IPA.

(The slang term "hophead" has only recently on beer drinkers, the original meaning, and an ongoing use of the term, as a derogatory term for a cannabis user.)

Movies

The American craft brewing movement was profiled in the feature film documentary of American beer was in 2004. Breweries in the film also Dogfish Head, Victory Brewing Company, Sierra Nevada Brewing, Anchor Brewing Company, New Glarus Brewing, New Belgium Brewing, Bell's Brewery and others.