American Craft Brewers Unite to Celebrate Benjamin Franklin's 300th Birthday.BOULDER, Colo. -- Approximately 100 American craft American craft consists of the United States' contributions to the family of artistic practices conducted by independent studio artists, working singly or in small groups, using traditional craft materials such as wood, glass, clay, textiles and metal and creating works that breweries from 35 different states join together in celebrating the 300th birthday of Benjamin Franklin this month. They do so with Poor Richard's Ale, a beer brewed from a common recipe in recent weeks at scores of breweries all across America. "To our knowledge, a single recipe has never been produced in unison by so many breweries," said Ray Daniels, Director of Craft Beer Marketing for the Brewers Association. "The unity of this effort by so many different businesses in such a wide range of states echoes the coming together of the original colonies to form a new nation under Franklin's influence." Consumers interested in toasting the first American First American may refer to:
Poor Richard's Ale emulates the beers of Franklin's day by including molasses molasses, sugar byproduct, the brownish liquid residue left after heat crystallization of sucrose (commercial sugar) in the process of refining. Molasses contains chiefly the uncrystallizable sugars as well as some remnant sucrose. and corn, two distinctly American ingredients. The recipe was chosen by brewers and historians in October and then distributed to hundreds of brewers nationwide so that each might make a batch in time for January. The name of the ale comes from Franklin's well-known publication, Poor Richard's Almanack Poor Richard's Almanack (sometimes Almanac) was a yearly almanack published by Benjamin Franklin, who adopted the pseudonym of "Poor Richard" or "Richard Saunders" for this purpose. The publication appeared continuously from 1732 to 1758. published by Franklin in the mid-1700s. Craft brewers are small, independently-owned brewers of hand-crafted beers including brewpubs, microbrewers and regional specialty brewers. For more information on this program, contact Ray Daniels, 312-203-8383 or ray@brewersassociation.org. Based in Boulder, Colo., U.S.A., the Brewers Association (BA) is a not-for-profit trade and educational association for small, traditional and independent craft brewers. Visit the website: www.beertown.org to learn more. The Brewers Association has an additional membership division of 9,000+ homebrewers: American Homebrewers Association The American Homebrewers Association is a division of the Brewers Association focused on homebrewers of beer, cider, and mead. The AHA was founded in 1978 by Charlie Papazian in Boulder, Colorado. . The association's activities include events and publishing: World Beer Cup(R); Great American Beer Festival The Great American Beer Festival (GABF) is a three-day annual event hosted by the Brewers Association held at the end of September or the beginning of October in Denver, Colorado. (R); NBWA/BREWERS Joint Legislative Conference, Craft Brewers Conference and BrewExpo America(R); National Homebrewers Conference; National Homebrew Competition; American Beer Month (July); Zymurgy zy·mur·gy n. The branch of chemistry that deals with fermentation processes, as in brewing. zymurgy a branch of applied chemistry that studies fermentation processes, as in brewing. magazine; The New Brewer magazine; and books on beer and brewing. |
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