Inside Anheuser-Busch’s Pilot Brewery

The Pub
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http://www.pastemagazine.com/articles/2014/11/the-belly-of-the-beast-a-trip-to-anheusers-researc.html

Pretty interesting stuff. Including the fact that they dump almost all of every batch.

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Interesting article. I’m curious if their goal is to someday release a legit line of AB craft beers, or to just dress up Shock Top with half-a$$ flavors. So far it’s the latter.

EDIT - I know with their empire that the losses down the drain are negligible, but I’m still surprised the batches are that big just to end up with a couple cases.

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I was at first as well, but what the guy says about the batch being large enough to scale quickly makes sense.

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I enjoyed the tasting panel discussion.

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When I visited the STL brewery in 2007 or so, it seemed to me they touted Michelob as their “craft” brew division.

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What about landshark?

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Funny you mention Landshark. In the tasting room they had a matrix of what beers where produced at what facility for their “specialty” markets. Landshark is made in their Jacksonville, FL brewery.