American beer brands

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Answer 1

Vermonster

Vermonster is an American barley wine style beer brewed by the Rock Art Brewery in Morrisville, Vermont. This beer was created by Matt Nadeau, the owner of Rock Art Brewery, in celebration of the brewery's 10th anniversary. The beer was created with the theme of "Tens" in that it contains 10% ABV, 100 International Bitterness Units, and 110 pounds of malt per barrel.

The Vermonster is the subject of a legal dispute between Hansen Beverage Company, the maker of Monster Energy drinks, and Rock Art Brewery. On September 14, 2009 Matt Nadeau of Rock Art Brewery received a cease and desist request from Hansen Beverage Company asking that he stop using the Vermonster name and compensate Hansen for its attorney's fees. Nadeau attempted to reach an agreement with Hansen, offering to surrender the rights to the trademark in the energy drink market.

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Answer 2

Weyerbacher Brewing Company

Weyerbacher Brewing Company

Weyerbacher Brewing Company is a brewery in Easton, Pennsylvania, United States, founded in 1995 by Dan and Sue Weirback. The brewery is well known for its "huge taste" beers. Most of their brews are high in alcohol, with QUAD clocking in at 11.8% alcohol by volume, and a one-off 10th anniversary ale called Decadence brewed to 13% alcohol by volume. Hops Infusion is one of the bitterest examples of the IPA style. Weyerbacher is also a pioneer of aging beer in wooden barrels previously used for aging bourbon. This process was used to transform Old Heathen into Heresy, Blithering Idiot into Insanity, Merry Monks into Prophecy, and QUAD into Blasphemy. These four styles (imperial stout, barleywine, trippel, and quadrupel) are all very high-alcohol brews with complex flavor profiles; the barrel-aging lends additional oak and whiskey flavors. The results have been widely praised by fans of huge beers, though persons accustomed to more mainstream beer may find them an acquired taste.

In September 2008, Weyerbacher released a limited run of a seasonal India pale ale, marketed as Harvest Ale (6.2% ABV),that featured a first-year crop of freshly picked, Cascade and Nugget hops grown by the Weirbacks on their farm. The hops were used for flavoring, not to impart the signature bitterness in the beer.

Dan Weirback has said the acre of hops were planted on a trial basis, as a response to a worldwide shortage of hops and price increases that suppliers informed brewers of in late 2007. As of November 2008, the brewery had plans to grow another crop and was exploring the availability of small-scale harvest equipment.

Weyerbacher sales have increased from $1.2 million in 2006 to $3.6 million in 2011. As a result, brewing capacity was expanded from 10,000 to 30,000 barrels per year in 2012.

Coordinates: 40°40′25″N 75°13′33″W / 40.6735°N 75.2257°W / 40.6735; -75.2257

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White House Honey Ale

White House Honey Ale

White House Honey Ale is the first beer known to have been brewed in the White House. The process began in January 2011 at the request of President Barack Obama who purchased the homebrewing kit using his personal funds. As of 2012^[update], three styles have been brewed in addition to Honey Ale: White House Honey Blonde Ale, White House Honey Porter and White House Honey Brown.

The chefs at the White House are said to use "traditional methods" to brew the beer, before it is bottled and labelled with a customized logo. It includes a pound of honey collected from beehives on the South Lawn. The logo features a line drawing of the White House on a maroon background encircled in yellow.

The beer has been brewed for various events held at the White House. A Super Bowl party, attended by nearly 200 guests including acquainted celebrities and members of the U.S. Congress, was one of the first events where the ale was served. Nearly 10 US gallons (38 L) were produced for the party, with around 90 to 100 bottles available. Some bottles were also brewed for St. Patrick's Day.

On September 15, 2011, former United States Marine Corps Sergeant Dakota Meyer was the recipient of the Medal of Honor at the White House. Earlier, when informed of his award over the phone, he requested to share a beer with President Obama. The president accepted the offer and they each drank a bottle of the ale on the patio outside the Oval Office.

Former president Thomas Jefferson, who lived in the White House between 1801 and 1809, is known to have brewed beer himself, particularly after his retirement. He has been called "America's first microbrewer", but there is no evidence that it happened within the White House.

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Wild Goose (beer)

Wild Goose is a brand of beer brewed by the Logan Shaw Brewing Company of Washington, D.C.. The brand is available in traditional British-style ale including an IPA (India Pale Ale) and an Oatmeal Stout.

The original Wild Goose Brewery was established by Washington area lawyers Ted Garrish and John Byington, businesswoman Nancy Davis and journalist (and former speechwriter) Rich Klein in 1989. The site of the brewery was in a section of the old Phillips packing plant, an abandoned oyster cannery facility in Cambridge, on the Eastern Shore of Maryland. Originally conceived as a brewpub, the founders were forced to bottle Wild Goose due to Prohibition Era laws (that were still then in effect) that restricted brewing and sale of alcohol on the same premises. Wild Goose was only the second micro-brewery to operate in Maryland since Prohibition ended in 1933.

Wild Goose's signature style was crafted by brewmaster Alan Pugsley, an early addition to the team. Founders Garrish and Byington met Pugsley in Portland, Maine while he was installing the brewing operation for Geary's Brewery and Gritty McDuff's Brewpub. Pugsley specialized in brewing unpasteurized beer, a new trend made popular by the rise of micro-breweries and brew pubs. Pugsley built the flavorful Wild Goose recipe around Ringwood yeast acquired from the Ringwood Brewery in the UK, which according to Thomas 'Tom' Cizauskas of Yours for Good Fermentables gave the Wild Goose Amber a "distinctive, rich malty/buttery flavor." Wild Goose was also known for brewing in open vats.

Wild Goose was founded around the culture of Maryland, with heavy emphasis on iconic images of the Chesapeake Bay such as crabs, lighthouses and winter geese. The original label of Wild Goose Amber featured both crabs and geese, and in 1990 Wild Goose launched a new brew named Thomas Point Light, named after the Thomas Point Shoal Lighthouse. The name was later changed to Wild Goose Golden to remove confusion as to whether this was a low calorie beer like Coors Light or Miller Light.

Wild Goose's first brew was in October of 1989 and produced at full-capacity, approximately 4,500 cases per month.

Wild Goose was widely distributed in bottles and kegs in Annapolis and throughout the Eastern Shore, with selected distribution in Washington D.C and Baltimore. Wild Goose was served locally at Middleton's Tavern under the name Samuel Middleton's Pale Ale. Wild Goose also brewed a house brand for Baltimore's Wharf Rat.

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Answer 5

Yakima Brewing

Yakima Brewing & Malting Co, also known as Grant's Brewery Pub, was a brewpub founded by Bert Grant in Yakima, Washington. With its opening in 1982, it was regarded as the first in the United States since Prohibition. The company produced beer independently or under a parent through 2004.

In 1982, Scotland-born Grant started a brewpub in Yakima's old opera house and later moved it to the city's train depot. The brewery began with a pale ale and eventually developed an IPA, an amber ale, a Scottish ale, and several seasonal varieties. In 1995, Grant sold the brewpub and Yakima Brewing & Malting Co., to Stimson Lane Vineyards & Estates. A 20,000 sq ft (1,900 m²) brewery was built in 1990 to expand production capacity. In 2001, shortly after Grant's death, Yakima Brewing and the brewpub were sold to Atlanta-based Black Bear Brewing, which had plans to build a national network of small regional breweries.

Yakima Brewing ran into financial difficulties. In 2003, it avoided foreclosure by giving its plant, property and equipment to International Wine & Spirits Ltd. and entering into a lease agreement. It was also found to be in violation of multiple state securities laws. Brewing operations and the pub were closed after the BNSF Railway won a judgment for more than $85,000 in unpaid rent on the property and legal costs in late 2004. A pub was opened for a third time at a boutique shopping center in 2005. It was closed two months later after the state revoked its liquor license.

Being the first of its kind opened in the United States since prohibition, the pub left a legacy in the brewing industry by re-establishing the business model and the craft model of what a brewpub could be. The Chief Executive of Redhook said that having such a brewpub was essential to fledgling craft brewers.

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Answer 6

Yuengling

D.G. Yuengling & Son

D. G. Yuengling & Son is the oldest operating brewing company in the United States, established in 1829. It is one of the largest breweries by volume in the country. Based on volume sold in 2015, Yuengling was the top craft beer company in the U.S. Based on sales in 2011, Yuengling was tied with the Boston Beer Company, maker of Samuel Adams brands, as the largest American-owned brewery. Its headquarters are in Pottsville, Pennsylvania. Yuengling produces about 2.8 million barrels annually, operating two Pennsylvania facilities and a brewery in Tampa, Florida.

Yuengling is pronounced ⁱ/ˈjɪŋlɪŋ/ YING-ling, and is an Anglicized version of Jüngling, its founder's surname and the German term for "young man".

The family-owned brewery has traditionally changed ownership through the purchase of the company by the offspring of the previous owner. Due to the popularity of Yuengling Traditional Lager in Pennsylvania and the Delaware Valley (including South Jersey), it can in some bars be ordered by simply asking for a lager.

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