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Fosters in Canada?
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What's the consensus on recording a brewer's location in the Beer Vault? Many beers are brewed under contract. Do we cite the parent brewery's location, or the that of the contract brewer? Examples: I think of Fosters as Australian. Of course, it's brewed in Canada, too--and the Fosters I buy here in NOVA is more than likely brewed north of here, not south! Same with Amstel, which is brewed in many places around the world, under contract from the parent brewery (Heineken Brouwerjen) in Holland. Yet according to the Vault, Amstel is brewed in Greece. Just looking for a consensus or some guidance. Thanks.
20 years ago
In Reply To #1 I think for all practical purposes, breweries should be kept to their parent companies location just for brevity. Unless, of course, there is a wide gap in the quality of the particular beer which is often the case. In those cases, as I've seen on here many times, the reviewer should note that a particular beer is better when sampled from X country.
The breweries (and therefore beers) are supposed to list the address of the brewer's corporate headquarters. Otherwise we'd need multiple listings for many beers, and a complete reprogramming of the BP system.
p.s. this doesn't necessarily mean that our database is 100% accurate!
This message was edited by Flashpro at 8/2/2004 9:21:25 AM.
Is your database accurate though? Just because a beer has the same name doesn't mean it's the same beer. Lots of beer (Bud, Coors & Fosters for example) are brewed in Canada and are different beers than the ones brewed in the US. Maybe you should have more than one beer. How hard would it really be to have a Bud (US) and a Bud (Canada) in your system?
In Reply To #4 But are they labeled differently? Bud brews different receipes in the US too, along with all the big breweries, but it's not worth making a different beer for each one. Before we know it there will be 20 entries and some jerks will rack up points by reviewing them all.
Labeled differently, no, but they are brewed differently and they do taste different. The alc content is mouch stronger in the Canadian versions and it results in beer that tastes differently than the beer brewed here. I don't think that from state to state and brewery to brewery within the US we have that difference.