Today, however, variety rules anew: 1, 450 U.S. brewers make choosing a mug an adventure.
Many new brewers are forced to cart the stuff around themselves at the beginning.
Of 25 small brewers I called on, 24 of them sat down with me.
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Cadus' specialty is yeast cells -- the same yeast that bakers and brewers use.
The Chicago Cubs and Milwaukee Brewers are keeping prices the same this year versus 2010.
If AB InBev is allowed to acquire Modelo, craft brewers could feel more pressure to consolidate.
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Whitbread owns Premier Inn hotels, Brewers Fayre pubs, Table Table pubs and Beefeater restaurants.
American brewers, faced with heartier barley and harder water, cut theirs with rice and corn.
The beer's brewers describe it as "a stunning blonde beer, full-bodied, with a voluptuous hop aroma".
The Brewers finished as Blue Square Premier champions despite a 2-1 defeat at Torquay on Sunday.
Those buys moved Interbrew from fifth place among global brewers to second, behind Anheuser-Busch.
The big brewers carry debt-to-enterprise values of 39% (Molson Coors), 47% (Anheuser) and 57% (Constellation).
The oil that many home brewers were collecting from restaurants contractually belonged to Renegade.
Craft brewers are at the mercy of retailers when it comes to informing consumers.
And craft brewers remain fragmented, making them ripe targets in an otherwise highly consolidated beer market.
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When he initially became baseball commissioner he retained his financial interest in the Milwaukee Brewers.
Bear Republic's brewers thought up Hop Rod Rye over post-work shots of Wild Turkey Rye.
Spokespeople for the Yankees, Brewers and Orioles did not respond to requests for comment.
The large mega brewers are long-term plays on the rise of the emerging market consumer.
John Axford, a relief pitcher for the Milwaukee Brewers, was used as the case study.
Louis Cardinals, the Milwaukee Brewers have become synonymous with futility and meager financial means.
Among them three beverage-companies, soft drink-maker Coca-Cola and brewers Anheuser-Busch InBev, SABMiller, and Heineken.
For almost 30 years, the Brewers have lingered listlessly in both the American and National Leagues.
According to the Brewers Association, in 2011 there were 1, 940 craft breweries in operation.
The competition watchdogs accused Belgium's largest brewers of fixing both prices and market share.
The channel development unit houses its K-cup operations, as well as its Verismo single-cup brewers.
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Dentsu's 3, 000-odd clients include both Toyota and Honda as well as all the brewers.
The Commission has already taken action against brewers in Belgium, France and Luxembourg for similar offences.
The move comes amid a wide-ranging commission probe into similar practices by brewers across Europe.
The freezing conditions meant the Brewers went three weeks without playing a game in December.
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