![]() “We spent yesterday reducing 45 gallons of beer in half,” she said Friday. Gregory explained the process that was unfolding Thursday and Friday in the most recent Prince Edward production run of the Devils Backbone hot sauce. “The cannery is an asset to the county, as it allows citizens to process value-added goods, which benefits them and their businesses and, in turn, the county’s economy as a whole.” “The cannery is utilized by both large-scale companies and individual citizens alike and the partnership with Devil’s Backbone brewery is a testament to the great job that the folks who run the cannery are doing in keeping it clean, safe and up to regulatory standards,” she stated. ![]() ![]() Prince Edward County Public Information Officer Kate Pickett said the county is proud to be home to one of the eight total and one of only two commercial canneries in the state. This piece has been updated to reflect this.“We are the only option that is affordable. In fact, it produces more than 60,000 barrels. The Brewers Association defines American craft breweries as "small, independent and traditional." "Small" is defined as an "annual production of 6 million barrels of beer or less" "independent" is defined as at least 75 percent owned or controlled by a craft brewer and "traditional" is defined as brewing in which at least 50 percent of the beer's volume consists of "traditional or innovative" ingredients.”īy this definition, Devils Backbone - now stripped of its "independent" qualifications - no longer falls into the craft beer category.Ĭorrection: This story previously stated that Devils Backbone produces more than 60,000 gallons of beer annually. (In fact, according to the National Beer Wholesalers Association, most of the country’s beer distribution, craft or not, flows through companies with agreements to either sell AB InBev or MillerCoors.) And Devils Backbone's flagship, Vienna Lager - which comprises roughly 60 percent of the brewery's sales - stands to be a viable competitor to both Sam Adams Boston Lager and Yuengling, a foothold AB InBev has tried to gain multiple times and failed. Devils Backbone was already nearly 100 percent dispersed through AB InBev distribution houses, which should make this transition easy. The acquisition looks to be smart one for AB InBev. Steve Crandall, owner and founder of Devils Backbone, says in a statement that Devils Backbone will keep its autonomy and will continue with its own authentic DNA within AB InBev’s The High End framework. This is in addition to its $107 billion merger with the London-based brewery and beverage company SABMIller. and Patchogue, New York's Blue Point Brewery, now all pieces in the company's ever-expanding “craft focused” division, The High End. This isn’t new territory for the beer behemoth, the company behind Budweiser, Busch, Michelob, Corona and others. In December of 2015, it acquired Colorado's Breckenridge Brewery, and before that purchase, it scooped up Seattle's Elysian Brewing Co., Chicago-based Goose Island Beer Co. (Photo by: Stephanie Breijo)Įvery few months, the beer nation gets saddled with the same issue: Big Beer buys Little Beer, and tears ensue from those involved, from those who have nothing to do with beer, from those who didn’t even know which company owned said brewery to begin with. But just how bad is it, and what does it mean? The latest in the acquisition stream is Devils Backbone Brewing Co., the largest craft brewery in Virginia, which produces more than 60,000 barrels annually. The Roseland-based brewery, which opened in 2008, announced today that it will be acquired by Belgian-headquartered Anheuser-Busch InBev. What happens when craft beer sells out? Virginia's largest craft brewery is about to find out.
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