Fancy can or regular can, Sam Adams is hardly alone in the artisanal beer world, though the can remains to the bottle what craft beers were to Miller when they launched the company in 1984.
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Slowly at first, then gathering downhill momentum as refrigeration became more reliable, the Plzen Original touched off a world beer revolution.
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Or Tactical Nuclear Penguin, an Imperial Stout, which, at 31% alcohol, was at the time of its brewing the strongest beer in the world.
Budweiser, the biggest brand of all, has only 3.6% of the 1.3 billion-hectolitre world beer market (see table), and the top 20 combined have barely more than a quarter.
Last year, American companies Firestone Walker Brewing and Miller Brewing won the World Beer Cup championship for both midsize and large breweries, respectively. (Small went to a German brewer.) And Sierra Nevada Brewing's Draught Ale and the Boston Beer Co.
The documentary Last Cup: Road to The World Series of Beer Pong follows five teams leading up to the second World Series tourney and was executive-produced by Morgan Spurlock of Super Size Me fame.
And every fall the AHA faithful, together with beer enthusiasts from around the world, flock to Denver for the renowned Great American Beer Festival.
And the other amusing thing is that one of the Sumerian epics describes a Sumerian god making a banquet for another god, and the steps are all mapped out for how the beer is made, which means that the oldest written recipe in the world is for beer.
Developed in the Czech city of Pilsen, lager now accounts for over 90% of the beer made in the world.
Watch for a near term overbought situation, but there is no doubt that momentum is on the side of the biggest beer brewing in the world.
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Across the road is the SAB Miller PLC's "World of Beer" and Turbine Hall, previously an old power plant and now the headquarters of mining firm AngloGold Ashanti.
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Gaines and Carroll organized the first World Series of Beer Pong in 2006.
But other global brewers are keen to expand in Africa too, as they seek growth markets to compensate for flat or falling beer sales in the rich world.
Corona is now the number one selling import beer in 38 countries around the world.
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It was the world's first beer fad, and porter breweries, bolstered by steam-age technology, grew to unprecedented size.
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And while China is the world's largest beer market by volume, it is also one of the least profitable.
While the US remains the world's largest beer market in terms of profit, brewers there are entering a new era.
In 2005 it moved ahead of the US to become the world's biggest beer market, with annual consumption of 300 million hectolitres.
It is also now the world's biggest beer producer, brewing 44bn litres in 2010, followed by the US (23bn litres), Brazil (12bn litres) and Russia (10bn litres).
Likely to produce 47 million hectoliters of beer this year, Carlsberg is the world's seventh-largest brewer.
And with the world's two biggest beer makers slugging it out in China's north-east, margins will get even thinner.
The Beer Festival takes place annually at the World Heritage Site.
No matter what's happening in the world, I know that my beer is getting better.
One industry wag jokes that Durheimer reminds him of the Most Interesting Man in the World character in the Dos Equis beer ads.
SABMiller access to some of the world's fastest-growing beer markets at a time when drinkers in richer countries are ordering more wine and spirits.
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And, yes, I did enjoy drinking the 312 beer -- cold -- during the World Cup. (Laughter.) I enjoyed it so much that when I watched Germany beat Argentina, I actually cheered for Germany.
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Munich and Bavaria pride themselves on their quality of beer, unashamedly calling it the best in the world.
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