declining beer sales closes bottle factory

Well.. that will happen until the Aluminum tariffs work through the supply chain, then it will be back to bottles...

Also, with all the Micro's... I think the major brewers are taking a hit... Agreed with @Cowboy ... I used to drink my fill of cheap beer.. but that was before I could afford good bourbon.
 
I find this very hard to believe. There are craft breweries popping up everywhere and often start out with bottles as it's cheaper to get into bottling than canning. Maybe it's that these micro breweries and craft breweries are doing a lot more kegs (wholesale) than bottles.
 
Domestic sales are down but craft beers have continued growth. A lot of craft breweries are turning or have turned to cans, which hurts the bottle market even more.
 
Yeah the big hit is more canned beer ( which is a better storage system for filtered beer and can be taken into no-glass zones) and more craft beer sold at the tap. Think of how many folks use to just get a beer in a bottle at a bar or resturant. A lot of that now is coming from a tap. And they reuse the kegs
 
Oskar Blues showed the craft beer industry that cans are better than bottles in protecting the beer. The craft industry was slow to adopt cans, but once proven many have adopted cans.
 
I dont buy it...that is that beer sales are waning. Every grocery store I go to has a full isle up and down both sides with beer, hard cider, etc. Most stores have a bar now. Granted that is keg beer. PS...if you even think you like hard cider, try BOLD ROCK IPA hard cider. Made in Mills River, NC.
 
jimmyjames8 said:
I dont buy it...that is that beer sales are waning. Every grocery store I go to has a full isle up and down both sides with beer, hard cider, etc. Most stores have a bar now. Granted that is keg beer. PS...if you even think you like hard cider, try BOLD ROCK IPA hard cider. Made in Mills River, NC.
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The actual sales are not declining at a drastic rate, just it is shifting in a different direction. The beer aisles will stay the same but every beer reset in a store the domestic beer section gets smaller and the craft section gets bigger. A lot of people are now exposed to higher end beer then 15 years ago. People realize beer can have different flavor profile like wine, mixed drinks or food, so that side of the industry is seeing continued growth.
 
I’m a draft or bottle guy, except for Guinness which is better from a can than from a bottle IMO.
 
JimB said:
I’m a draft or bottle guy, except for Guinness which is better from a can than from a bottle IMO.
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Yep. But even Guinness from a can isn’t anywhere close to Guinness on tap.
 
I'm a frozen pint glass kinda guy. So, with regard to taste a bottle or can doesn't matter to me. I grab a pint glass out of the freezer, pour the beer and toss the bottle/can into recycling. So, for me the can is a better choice because it's easier to stack in the fridge.
 
Tim said:
32-64oz bottles

Essentially, they fill a craft beer fresh from the tap into a large bottle (growler) to take home. Growlers are reusable.
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I prefer crowlers, which have replaced grumblers at several local breweries. Keeps much better than grumblers or growlers.
 
Tim said:
I'm a frozen pint glass kinda guy. So, with regard to taste a bottle or can doesn't matter to me. I grab a pint glass out of the freezer, pour the beer and toss the bottle/can into recycling. So, for me the can is a better choice because it's easier to stack in the fridge.
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Good beer needs to be about 45°F to allows the flavors to come through. Bad beer (think Bud, PBR, etc.) needs to be almost frozen to hide the taste.
 
JimB said:
And Guinness on tap in America isn’t anywhere close to Guinness on tap in Ireland.
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This is true. The difference between the Guinness in Germany and here was surprising. Guinness is the best beer made. I have a lot of favorites but that is my number one.
 
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American light beers — led by the top-selling Bud Light, Coors Light and Miller Lite — have been in decline in recent years. The craft beer boom is slowing down.
And as it has for years, beer continues to lose share to wine and spirits as millennials, in particular, have eschewed cheaper mainstream beers for more premium beverages across categories.
Beer’s share of alcohol sales peaked in the mid-1990s, Shepard said, and since has been on the slow decline.

http://www.thegazette.com/subject/n...s-this-weekend-will-kick-start-sales-20180525
 
Plott Hound said:
There are much better stouts out there.....
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I have a few craft brew stouts in the fridge, just starting to explore. Had one last week that was bad, too much alcohol (12.8%) causing the taste of the alcohol to break from the rest of the flavor profile.

Murphy’s and Samuel Smith are both good. What do you suggest that is available locally?
 
Olde Hickory Brewery's Hickory Stick Stout is a local favorite here.
 
Decline in beer sales o_O Maybe somewhere= but not in WNC. Every town with a population of more then 1000 has its own brewery! Asheville can not even count the breweries due to a new one opening almost daily. Of course --- no glass bottles. Maybe a few growlers in brow bottles. When I first came to Asheville you could smell the hay in the air. Now it just smells like yeast and hops.
 
I've always loved bottled beer. But the kind of craft beer I drink is only sold in 12 oz cans locally. They do sell it in 22 oz glass bottles at the brewery but that's about 4.5 hours away from me and 22oz is a little much to try to drink in one setting before it starts getting warm or flat.
So now I just pour my canned beer in a glass and I'm good to go.
 
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I've always preferred cans. A last year Sam Addams did a trial run of canning their beer, and I thought it was a lot better than their bottled beer. Apparently not many folks agreed with me, because it disappeared off the shelves in a few weeks.
 
Drinking from aluminum cans can give you that disease where you forget things, or is it the beer that makes you forget things? I can't remember which.
What were we talking about again?
 
I've kind of drifted away from beer altogether, hit the Jack more these days. Now LJ is a connoisseur of the finer beers, crap like Miller High Life and Leinengugel's Summer Shandy (whatever in hell that is) She might drink a 6 pack per year because I brought her a case of the Leinenguhel's last Oct when I was in WI and there's 19 still left!! Big drinker!!
 
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