Flying Dog Brewery Part of Micro Beer Spurt in US
February 27, 2012
It’s been around a long time. One of the world’s oldest, written recipes explains how to make it. And the recipe itself was sometimes said to be a gift from the gods. But beer has come a long way. And in the United States, where just a short while ago, overall beer sales were down one percent, micro, or, craft breweries have enjoyed a 12 percent growth over the same period.
It’s hard to imagine life without beer. Especially here… at the Flying Dog Brewery.
This place fills 250 bottles every single minute of production, says the company's Erin Biles. Not bad for a brewery its founder conceived on a 1983 hiking expedition.
“They were in Pakistan, which is a Muslim nation, and they had to sign affidavits stating that they were Sons of Christians to be able to drink… and drink they did! And they stumbled upon a Pakistani artist’s interpretation of an English birddog. And Flying Dog became the symbol of their whole journey,” Biles said.
And the journey continues… because Flying Dog ships its beer around the United States and across the Atlantic to a dozen or so European countries. But like all good journeys… it starts with the first steps.
“You have four main ingredients in beer. You have water, malted barley, yeast and hops. So to start the process the grains and the water are mixed in there together, and that big, stainless steel arm just goes around and around mixing the liquid with the barley,” Biles said.
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