Quotes About Brewers

The Brewers Association, a trade group of some 2000 small and independent brewers, was founded in 2005 to be a 'passionate voice for craft brewers' and craft beer, and it has made itself as vocal as the bigger Beer Institute.

Tobias Brewers and Maltsters Collection, located at the Western Historical Manuscripts Collection at

Ideally, brewers interpret history, and through science they create art.

Britain, where the establishment of a local library board required a taxpayer levy, the take-up rate was initially sluggish. Even when a library rate was proposed, hostile campaigning, often underwritten by the powerful brewers' lobby, could ensure that it was defeated.

I'm just excited for the fresh start and the new opportunity and to be a part of the Brewers.

One of the most bitter complaints of craft brewers is that big beer wins consumers by introducing beers whose names resemble the names of actual independent beers. After New Belgium came out with a popular beer called Sunshine Wheat, MillerCoors, through its Leinenkugel brand, came out with a beer called Sunset Wheat.

The Brewers, feeling the crush of small-market economics and fearing injury problems, decided they couldn't afford to keep Molitor, whom Bando regrettably referred to at one point as "just a DH." Toronto swept in with a three-year, $13 million offer. "If Paul Molitor leaving the Brewers doesn't show that the small markets are in trouble, nothing does," Jim Gantner told the Milwaukee Sentinel at the time.

For the next great Brewers team, he can provide a link to those guys. He is able to do that and he does a good job of it. And

But they all realize that the fans love it and that the sausages are good for business. "My whole family has done it," Prince Fielder said during his tenure with the Brewers. "My kids were in the mini-race [a Sunday staple where adult sausages run a relay with younger kids in similar costumes]. My wife did it. My wife's cousin came and actually tore her ACL doing it.

One year, the Brewers had a problem when a skunk built a nest under the stands near the home bullpen. They actually brought in animal control to trap the critter, and it became one of those light local news stories that TV stations like to deliver to viewers.

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one of the reasons witches were often depicted with a broom was because women had traditionally been the main brewers of ale and beer, which were stirred with a besom—a bundled broom. When hung over the door or window of an ale house, it showed the street that a new batch was ready. Likewise, the pointed hats associated with witches came from the habit in earlier times of alewives wearing them at market to be seen over the crowd, so that thirsty types would know where to go.

Jones learned his changeup, or at least observed its grip for the first time, from a future fictional closer. Willie Mueller pitched briefly for the Brewers in 1978 and 1981 but is best known for a role in Major League as Duke Simpson, the menacing Yankees reliever. Bob Uecker, playing broadcaster Harry Doyle, noted that Duke was so mean, he threw at his own kid in a father-son game.

Brewers enjoy working to make beer as much as drinking beer instead of working .

These Big Brewers scorned honest beer in favor of watery swill brewed from cheap corn and rice. The Big Brewers added insult to injury by using crass commercials, linked mostly to professional sporting events, to sell their foul brew to working-class people. By the 1970s, only a handful of brewers remained and American beer was a thin, yellow concoction with no flavor and even less body.