The Reinvention of the Wheel Is Starting a New Trend in the World of Craft Beer

When you ask someone to describe a bottle of beer the first thing that comes to mind is a single serving bottle. Typically this bottle is 12oz, small, and meant for one person. If you were to ask someone will you share your beer, you might find a look of hesitation to say the least. Welcome to the reinvention of the wheel: 750-militer bottles for beer.

Wine has always come in 750-militer bottles and has always been a beverage to be shared. To not share a bottle of wine would seem selfish as well as leading to a very intoxicating night. Beer on the other hand has not been considered a beverage meant to be shared, such as wine. Instead most beer through the ages has been offered in only single serving sizes. Recently there has been an evolution to beer and beer bottles and large format beer is quickly becoming more and more mainstream.

So who came up with the idea of putting a beer in a bottle that can serve 2 - 15 people? Belgium of course! Belgium has pretty much pioneered the large format beer scene in the world. Some of the greatest beer ever brewed is only available in the states through 750-militer bottles. A large bottle of beer will typically serve from 2 - 4 people at a time. While large bottles of beers have existed through Europe for sometime the idea is taking shape in the states; Beer Halls and Restaurants all over the nation are starting to understand the need for such beers.

Euclid Hall in Denver, Colorado is an up and coming American Tavern and Beer Hall featuring some of the best craft beer by Colorado breweries and American Breweries in the nation. They feature a slew of Belgium beer and have a very impressive large format selection to choose from. Tony Maciag, General Manager of Euclid Hall says, "The idea is to share. Our concept at Euclid is all about sharing and beer is no exception." These bottles hold 25.36 ounces of beer which is more than enough for one person and easily enough for more. Euclid features around twenty large format beers at any given time as well as 375-militer, 550-militer, and 22oz bombers of beer.

Many Colorado breweries feature their limited edition or rare releases in large format exclusively. Great Divide Brewing Co out of Denver showcased their Stranahan's whiskey aged Old Ruffian using these bottles and are hand numbered to showcase their rarity. Outside of Colorado, American breweries focusing on brewing craft beer also partake in the tradition. Boulevard Brewing Company out of Kansas City, Missouri showcases their "Smokestack" using these bottles as well.

While the average bottle of beer (12oz) is perfect for a single serving it doesn't do a celebration justice. Many parties that go out to celebrate an evening choose wine since it serves more than one person; not beer. Not the case anymore! Many large parties that attend Wine Affairs in San Jose, Ca choose beer over wine. Stephen Markosky says, "We have a great selection of craft beer as well as some bombers (22oz) and champagne size bottles. We want people to take in the experience together. Quite a few birthday celebrations and engagements are toasted over beer instead of wine; it's the new trend." Beer Halls and restaurants across the nation are starting to showcase their craft beer selection outside of drafts and single bottles and focusing more so on larger bottles for sharing.

The typical large bottle of beer, 750-militer, will be corked and caged like a Champagne bottle. This is one of the reasons so many people pass over these beers. Not a lot of people in the world have experience opening a Champagne bottle let alone a bottle of beer presented the same way. The unknown is scary and we tend to avoid it as a species. With more and more American breweries and craft beer being showcased in these bottles, the unknown will become mainstream.

The next time you go head out for dinner be it on a date or for a celebration take the time and ask about the restaurants beer selection. Ask if they have carry any 750-militer beers. Nothing will give the experience of celebration as a very unique beer shared amongst friends and loved ones.

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Home Beer Making - Beers of the World, Different Types and Styles

There are hundreds of different types and styles of beer being brewed all over the world. People from different part of world have designed and developed their own techniques of brewing beer adding custom flavors and aromas to it. Beers also vary in their appearance, texture, smoothness, flavor, ingredients, gravity, texture and recipe. Each type of beer has a history attached to it as to where and how it was originated. Here are the three main kinds of beers found at different parts of the world!

Top Fermenting Type:

These beers are made from top-fermenting yeast, which typically ferments at higher temperatures giving a significant amount of esters and other secondary aromas and flavors. The yeast forms a layer of foam at the surface of the fermenting beer giving flavors that resemble those of apple, pear, pineapple, grass, hay, banana, plum or prune. The top fermented beers include Ales, Altbeer, Special and Wheatbeers.

Ales - This beer is very popular in England. The style includes bitters, pale ales, porters, stouts, barley wines, trappist, and alt. Barley Wine is an English beer which is popular being powerful, syrupy and strong flavored. It comes in golden or dark colors. Biere de Garde is medium to strong spicy ales from North West France.

Altbeer - Made in the city of Dusseldorf and other cities in the north of Germany, this beer is copper-colored aromatic ale, which is quite bitter in taste. It contains about 4.5% alcohol and is made using the ancient style of brewing. Diebels, Schlosser and Uerige are few examples of Alt beer.

Wheatbeers - Berliner Weisse is a popular and sharply acidic wheat beer being made mainly in Berlin, Germany. This beer has low alcohol and comes with green woodruff or raspberry juice added to it giving colors to its cloudy white appearance.

Bottom Fermenting Types:

In these types of beer the yeast ferments at lower temperatures and process a compound called Raffinose is a complex sugar. The yeast collects at the bottom of the fermenting beer giving its own flavor. Lager is the most popular kind of beer fermented this way.

Lagers - The bottom fermenting procedure is also called "Largering". The Lager beers include bocks, doppelbocks, Munich, Vienna, Marzen and pilsners. Popular Lagers include Oud bruin, a weak sweetish Lager from Netherland, Muncher a brown malty lager from Munich, Germany. Marzen is another copper-colored lager made in Vienna.

Spontaneous Fermentation Type:

In the spontaneous fermenting type of beers wild stains of yeast are used. These types of beer originated and are very popular in Belgium. These types of beers are often referred as Lambic.

Lambic - This beer is often flavored using fruit like cherries and brewed in parts of Belgium. Kriek is a Belgian Lambic beer has a fruity flavor and deep colors. This beer is secondary fermented by adding cherries to it. Faro is another Belgian Lambic beer is weak and is sweetened with sugars. Geuze is a ripe blend of old and new Belgian Lambics. Gueuze is not filtered or pasteurized and has a fruity, sour, dry taste.

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Beer Sales Reps Have the Best Job in the World - Become a Beer Rep

Beer Sales Reps have the best job in the world. Working for 2 of the largest beer companies in the US ( Coors and Miller Brewing Company, I can honestly say that I could not have dreamed of a better job.

Working as a Beer Sales Rep provided me with so many benefits. I was the man when I walked into some of the hottest bars in New York and Hollywood.

Becoming a Beer Sales Rep also requires a certain skill and passion for the beer business. I don't know many guys that don't enjoy drinking beer and meeting hot girls everyday during working hours.

Benefits of a Beer Guy

Coors Brewing Company is more than an employer, they are a family. Coors was focused on selling great beers to their consumers, but their top priority was on having the best employees and treating them great.

Coors would provide us with the best sales tools to help us sell more of it's great beer to it's distributors and retailers. We would receive brand new laptops, smart phones and top of the line digital cameras. Not only do you get the best sales tools, you get the coolest promotional clothing and gadgets known to man. I would get football neons, Coors light bbq grills and some of the sweetiest clothes.

When you work for a company that allows you to be yourself and have a great time, you have no choice but to be loyal. You wake up every morning wanting to go to work. You get to meet interesting people everyday..you are working at in some of the best environments. Not to mention, you work from your home.

You get to go to special parties, concerts, football games, various sporting events and drink free beer. I am not joking. I first could not think it was possible to drink beer while you are working and get paid to do it.

Hiring Beer Girls

If you are a guy that loves being around attractive girls, then you need to work for a beer company. I was responsible for hiring attractive beer girls for Miller and Coors light. I needed girls to escort me to special events and promote Coors light and other beer. I would have hundreds of girls approach me in the bar and ask if they could work for me.

I love selling beer...

I was well known around town because I was at the hottest clubs, sporting events and VIP parties promoting beer. Guys would love to be around me because I knew a lot of hot girls and cool parties to go to.

Beer Company Trips and Benefits

When working for a cool beer company, you get to travel to some really cool places for business. We had a lot of corporate meetings and functions in some of the best places in the US. When I talk about corporate meetings, I mean fun meetings to places like Las Vegas, San Diego, Orlando (Disney World). We had the best time because we are always drinking with link minded peers that love to have fun.

I love the beer industry so much that I thought I would share just a fraction of how much fun it is to work for a beer company. There are so many other reasons to work for a beer company that I can not list them all here.

If you are interested in working for a beer company and having the best time of your life, then i suggest you learn more about becoming a Beer Sales Rep.

Paul Gage is the owner of Boost Sales and Marketing, LLC which is a beverage sales and marketing company.

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Wine and Spirits Talk - Get Into The World Of Original German Beers!

Throughout Germany, beer is very popular with the culture. German beer is highly diverse and an important part of Germany's culture. Beer is so pervasive amongst the populace; Germany has become synonymous with beer consumption in the world's mind. The Germans are behind only the Czechs and the Irish in their per capita consumption of beer.

In total, there are approximately 1300 breweries in Germany producing over 5000 brands of beer, which is more than any other location in the world. Touring Germany's breweries is as much of a cultural experience as a scientific expedition. Family owned breweries are common, with a lot of pride mixed in with the basic ingredients!

The German beer market is somewhat sheltered from the rest of the world beer market by the German brewers' adherence to the Bavarian Reinheitsgebot (purity requirement) dating from 1516 (and most recently updated in the Vorläufiges Biergesetz of 1993), according to which the only allowed ingredients of beer are water, hops and barley-malt. This law also requires that beers not using only barley-malt (such as wheat and rye) must be top-fermented. All beer that is manufactured in Germany must follow the purity law, which lets manufacturers know what ingredients can and cannot be used.

Due to the strict purity requirements, you can easily notice German beers by their overall level of quality. They have a distinct taste, with little to no aftertaste.

Some styles of German ale include Koelsch, Weizen, and Altbier. There is a variety of different types of German beer, such as: Altbier - a dark amber, hoppy beer brewed around Düsseldorf and Lower Rhine. Kölsch - pale, light-bodied, beer which can only legally be brewed in the Cologne region. Leipziger Gose - an amber, very sour, wheat beer brewed around Leipzig. While the beer market is weaker but more centralized in northern Germany (the biggest brands being Beck's, Krombacher, Veltins, Warsteiner, and Bitburger), the south has many very small, local breweries.

The German beer Altbier is a very common dark ale that is top fermented in the lower regions of Germany. The beer proposes a yellow color, with a taste that is rich in hops. Another ale, Rauchbier, is known to have a smoky flavor with a smoked color. These beers taste great, and happen to be very popular throughout the regions of Germany.

German lagers are also very popular, and happen to be popular in other areas of the world as well. Pilsner is one of the most popular and most familiar of all German beers, providing you with more hops and less malt. Pilsner can be found for sale all over the world, and happens to be very popular throughout North America as well. Numerous bars serve it as well, as it happens to be one of the most popular dark lagers out there.

Throughout Germany, there are several different companies, producing over 5,000 different brands of beers. Some of the more well known and larger companies of north Germany are Beck, St. Pauli, Warsteiner, and Krombach. In the southern region of Germany, there are more breweries, although most of them are smaller, as they are locally owned and operated. Southern Germany also contains the Benedictine Abbey, which is one of the oldest breweries in the world. This brewery started producing beer in 1040 - very impressive indeed!

Germany is also home to Oktoberfest, which is held every year in Munich. The Munich Oktoberfest is well known for the quantity of beer drunk as well as the friendly, social atmosphere created by the massive marqees with long tables and bench seating. Almost 6,000,000 liters of beer are served every year at the festival. Oktoberfest starts in late September and carries on for two weeks, ending in early October. During Oktoberfest, beer drinkers from all over the world will travel to Germany and celebrate German beers. Each and every year, over 5 million people attend the event, making it one of the biggest beer celebrations in the world.

During Oktoberfest, local breweries in Munich are the only breweries allowed to serve beer in the bigger tents. There are six breweries in total, producing a variety of different beers. By attending this yearly event, you can learn more about German beer, sample the different varieties, and enjoy the rich bold flavors that make German beer so very popular.

Due to the success Oktoberfest gets each and every year, other cities around the world try and mimic this event. Even though they have success, their level of success isn't near as much as the original Oktoberfest - Germany.

German beers are very popular around the world, with Oktoberfest helping to prove that very claim.

If you drink beer but have never experienced what beers from Germany have to offer, you really should give them a try. Once you do, you'll quickly realize why German beers are so very popular - and why the taste simply can't be duplicated with any other beer.

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