Craft Beer Creating Spinoffs

Steve Raabe published an article in the denver post about the explosive growth of colardo craft breweries generating spinoff businesses. 

Colorado's craft-brewing industry produces $446 million annually in economic activity, according to a University of Colorado study. Of that amount, $76 million comes from spinoff businesses that supply goods and services to brewers.

Kegging, portable canning company, barrel companies, tours, you name it.  The craft beer industry is growing and so are spinoff business.

CBS Denver posted that hop farms are popping up around Boulder county.  Another example of how craft breweries are generating spinoff businesses and of course for hopheads there is no substitution for fresh hops!

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Mark McDermott published an article in Easy Reader about Brian Brewer .  He became a brewer at age 17 out of curiosity.

“I was an experimental youth, interested in science and creating something out of nothing,” Brewer said. “I was always taking things apart and figuring out how to put things back together.”

“If you don’t know the science behind brewing, you don’t really know brewing,” he said. “You don’t need to use it on a daily basis once your get your methods perfected, but if you don’t understand the science you don’t have a way of resolving issues that arise in the brewery and you are going to have a lot harder time developing recipes.”

I think the thing that people overlook most in there home brewing endevears is that it is just as much a science as it is an art.  Understanding the process helps you figure out why your beer did not turn out or even why it tastes a certian way.