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user-inactivated  ·  2700 days ago  ·  link  ·    ·  parent  ·  post: Craft Beer, Brought To You By Big Beer

    Beer is a product that benefits greatly from industrial scale.

The guys who give the tours at Boulevard like to talk about this a lot.

Someone invariably asks them on the tour if the recipe for, say, the KC Pils has changed. And then they have to respond no, you've just noticed the variance between different batches.

Then they bring the conversation around to Budweiser, and how it all tastes exactly the same. How you can take two cans that were made in different plants on different months, and not taste the slightest bit of difference.