In the thread "Medium-size breweries?", posters listed some medium-size
breweries they knew. I'm simply compiling those names into a list below for
discussion (who should be on it and who shouldn't) and to hopefully spark
additions that the other thread overlooked and possibly more narrowly define
what should be considered a "medium-size" brewery. I would also like to
take this beyond the US ... including what is considered the mega-breweries
of the world, which I've also tried to rank. If a brewery is not a US one,
its nation of origin is in parentheses after its name. As advised by one of
the last thread's posters, I've also done a Google search on "largest
breweries" and incorporated those results into the following lists.

MEGA-BREWERIES:
Anheuser-Busch (world's largest)
Carlsberg (Denmark, #5)
Coors (soon to be #5 with Molson merger)
Federation (UK)
Heineken (Netherlands. #3)
Interbrew (Belgium, #4)
Pabst (though only a DBA today)
SAB Miller (#2)
Scottish & Newcastle (UK)

MEDIUM-SIZE BREWERIES:
Adam Smith/Boston Brewery
Anchor Stream
Boag (Australia)
Cooper (Australia, #3 largest in nation)
Dixie
F.X. Matt
Falstaff
Full Sail
Genessee
Grand Ridge (Australia)
High Falls
JW Dundee
Latrobe
Leinenkugel
Lion Brewery
Pyramid
Redhook
Sierra Nevada
Spoetzl
Stroh
Widmer
Yuengling

On Mon, 6 Dec 2004, Scott Jensen wrote:

> MEGA-BREWERIES:
> Anheuser-Busch (world's largest)
> Interbrew (Belgium, #4)

I read somewhere recently that Interbrew merged with AmBev to form the
worlds largest "brewery" (or shall I say Brewing Company).
A-B still outsells, but in sheer size, the new company is the largest.

JW Dundee Honey Brown is brewed by High Falls.

Additions to the list include:

New Belgium
Boulevard - about 60,000 bbls
Alaskan

All really depends on your definition of "medium size breweries. FYI every
year the New Brewer published by the Association of Brewers publishes
industry statisitics listing sales volume for all US breweries.


"Scott Jensen" > wrote in message
...
> In the thread "Medium-size breweries?", posters listed some medium-size
> breweries they knew. I'm simply compiling those names into a list below
for
> discussion (who should be on it and who shouldn't) and to hopefully spark
> additions that the other thread overlooked and possibly more narrowly
define
> what should be considered a "medium-size" brewery. I would also like to
> take this beyond the US ... including what is considered the
mega-breweries
> of the world, which I've also tried to rank. If a brewery is not a US
one,
> its nation of origin is in parentheses after its name. As advised by one
of
> the last thread's posters, I've also done a Google search on "largest
> breweries" and incorporated those results into the following lists.
>
> MEGA-BREWERIES:
> Anheuser-Busch (world's largest)
> Carlsberg (Denmark, #5)
> Coors (soon to be #5 with Molson merger)
> Federation (UK)
> Heineken (Netherlands. #3)
> Interbrew (Belgium, #4)
> Pabst (though only a DBA today)
> SAB Miller (#2)
> Scottish & Newcastle (UK)
>
> MEDIUM-SIZE BREWERIES:
> Adam Smith/Boston Brewery
> Anchor Stream
> Boag (Australia)
> Cooper (Australia, #3 largest in nation)
> Dixie
> F.X. Matt
> Falstaff
> Full Sail
> Genessee
> Grand Ridge (Australia)
> High Falls
> JW Dundee
> Latrobe
> Leinenkugel
> Lion Brewery
> Pyramid
> Redhook
> Sierra Nevada
> Spoetzl
> Stroh
> Widmer
> Yuengling
>
>

Expletive Deleted wrote:

> On Mon, 6 Dec 2004, Scott Jensen wrote:
>
>>MEGA-BREWERIES:
>>Anheuser-Busch (world's largest)
>>Interbrew (Belgium, #4)
>
>
> I read somewhere recently that Interbrew merged with AmBev to form the
> worlds largest "brewery" (or shall I say Brewing Company).

Correct. The merged company is called InBev, or as their logo puts it,
"!nBev."

It will be left as an exercise to determine what Flemish slang term
is expressed by the word "inbev." Some would claim that it's
appropriate.

> A-B still outsells, but in sheer size, the new company is the largest.

More accurately, InBev is now the world's largest brewing company by
volume, and has operations in Europe, Asia, and North and South America.
Anheuser-Busch is the largest in terms of revenue, and while the bulk of
its market is still in North America, A-B has made significant inroads
into Asia and Europe. Bud's become an annoyingly popular beer in the UK
and Ireland, and with A-B's purchase of Harbin Brewery, it's becoming a
big presence in China as well.
--
dgs

"Scott Jensen" > wrote in
:

> I would also like to take this beyond the US
> ... including what is considered the mega-breweries of the world,
> which I've also tried to rank.
>
> MEGA-BREWERIES:

>
> MEDIUM-SIZE BREWERIES:
> Adam Smith/Boston Brewery
> Anchor Stream
> Boag (Australia)
> Cooper (Australia, #3 largest in nation)

Nice list

Australia has two mega-breweries (by Australian standards, anyway; dunno
how they compare to the vast brewing empires of the rest of the world) -
Carlton United Breweries and Lion Nathan. Cooper's is indeed the third-
largest, but that's not saying much. A sheep standing next to two
elephants is also the third-largest animal Most of our beer comes out
of CUB and Lion Nathan, and most of it is pretty much identical, which is
why we cherish our medium and micro-breweries so

K
--
nil illegitimi carborundum

"Scott Jensen" > wrote in message
...

> In the thread "Medium-size breweries?", posters listed some medium-size
> breweries they knew. I'm simply compiling those names into a list below
> for
> discussion (who should be on it and who shouldn't) and to hopefully spark
> additions that the other thread overlooked and possibly more narrowly
> define
> what should be considered a "medium-size" brewery.

<list snipped>

Spotted a couple corrections you may want to make. One is I'm sure a simple
brain fart - Boston Beer brews Sam Adams, not Adam Smith. Also, Anchor is
the name of second brewery on your medium list. It's an all-too-common
mistake that many people make, giving the brewery the name of its flagship
beer, Anchor Steam.

Lastly, Stroh no longer operates as a brewery, having been swallowed up as
part of the Miller/Pabst/Stroh transaction of a few years back.

-Steve

Steve Jackson wrote:
> "Scott Jensen" > wrote in message
> ...
>
>
>>In the thread "Medium-size breweries?", posters listed some medium-size
>>breweries they knew. I'm simply compiling those names into a list below
>>for
>>discussion (who should be on it and who shouldn't) and to hopefully spark
>>additions that the other thread overlooked and possibly more narrowly
>>define
>>what should be considered a "medium-size" brewery.
>
>
> <list snipped>
>
> Spotted a couple corrections you may want to make. One is I'm sure a simple
> brain fart - Boston Beer brews Sam Adams, not Adam Smith. Also, Anchor is
> the name of second brewery on your medium list. It's an all-too-common
> mistake that many people make, giving the brewery the name of its flagship
> beer, Anchor Steam.
>
> Lastly, Stroh no longer operates as a brewery, having been swallowed up as
> part of the Miller/Pabst/Stroh transaction of a few years back.

One more correction is that Latrobe is owned by Interbrew now.

Tom W

"Scott Jensen" > wrote in message
...

Corrections, some of which may already have been made upthread, but so be
it...

> MEDIUM-SIZE BREWERIES:
> Adam Smith/Boston Brewery

Boston Beer Co.

> Anchor Stream

Anchor Brewing

> F.X. Matt

Goes by "Matt Brewing" these days.

> Falstaff

Just a label, not a brewery

> Genessee

Bought out and wholly owned by...

> High Falls

which likewise owns...

> JW Dundee

> Latrobe

Wholly owned by InBev.

> Leinenkugel

Owned by Miller, but operates semi-independently.

> Spoetzl

Owned by Gambrinus Company.

> Stroh

No longer a brewery, just a collection of labels owned by Pabst and (I
believe) Miller.

> Widmer

Also partly owned (under 50%) by A-B, but no one seems to hold that against
them, as people do with Redhook. Why is that?

> Yuengling

Fifth-largest in America, largest family-owned brewery in America...largest
family-owned brewery in the world? Dunno.

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