I am a craft brewer.
I love craft beer.
I am passionate about craft beer.
For the past 50 years, beers in the hands of average americans have been put there by ad men, mega-corporations, snake oil salesmen, people who primise one thing, and deliver nothing.
Only focused on how much their selling, instead of what they are selling.
But not any more.
Over the last sseveral years, craft brewing has been the fastest growing beer segment in the united states, and we're just getting warmed up!
Tell me I cant do it.
Tell me my beers wont sell.
Call me naieve.
Call me a Revolutionary.
Craft brewing is innovation.
Independence.
Curiousity.
Colaboration.
Character.
And family.
Its built on the american dream.
Craft brewing has integrity, tradition, and a style all its own.
Craft brewers make their community a better place.
Craft brewwing from America is spreading around the world.
We are small.
Community supportive.
Authentic.
Local.
And diverse.
We are risk takers.
we are hard working.
We dont chase after trends, we create them.
A little over 100 years ago there were 3000 breweries in the United States.
Around that same time, mega corporations decided to put corn in their beer.
Decided to put rice in their beer.
I dont put corn in my beer.
I dont put rice in my beer.
Everything I put n my beer, I choose because it enhances the flavor.
I am not afraid.
I am not afraid of brewing my beer to be more interestnig, rather than less.
If you want lowest common denominator beer, that's up to you. I wont have any part of it.
These are unprecidented times in the history of american brewing.
While the monolithic industrial brewers continue to get.. mroe monolitchic, its craft brewerrs that have been capturing the hearts and minds of the american public.
Today america is considered by experts and beer enthusiasts everywhere as the most exciting place in the world for great beer.
Amercan craft brewers are proud to have changed the reputation of beer in this country from lowly, to elevated.
Even though we make up just under 5% of the brewing industry, craft brewers have created a momentum that cannot be stopped.
We are socially conscious, stylisticly adventurous, and categorically devoted to creating great craft beer.
We must illumunate our strengths, keep true to our standards.
Educate those who seek to understand what we have created.
We must draw hard lines.
We must expose those who seek to capiutalize on what we have created.
We must not chase after those who do not understand or care about what we do.
We belive in quality, bold character, fun, responsibility and we belive in pushing boundaries.
We are the heart and soul of the beer industry.
we are all craft brewers.
we must honor and hold true to our craft
We must honor and hold true to our integrity.
We must honor and hold true to eachother.
We must spread the message.
Id like to raise a toast. to beers that were collaboratively brewed.
I helped brew one of these beers.
I helped brew one of these beers.
I helped brew one of these beers.
I helped brew one of these beers.
I totally helped brew one of these beers.
So did I.
Me too.
To you.
To us!
On three and then cheers.
1.. 2.. 3..
CHEERS!
Any English majors or speech writers that could transform that into a homebrewer speech?
hell I think we should leave it just the same word for word...... I bet they would get a seriouse kick out of us doing a project like that
That being said I am in!!!!
Edit: we will need to be brewing a collaboration beer too or atleast drinking it.... though I think video while we was actually brewing it would be great, Cuts of each of us infront of our basic to elaborate equipmen, Kinda showing it doesnt matter how basic or how sick our breweries are we are ALL doing the same thing,,,, as thats also the message going on in the viideo...
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Count me in. I have done some film editing work I will be down to do it after my finals are over! This will most likely take a long time since there are a lot of people and getting a lot of people to film anything takes considerable time.
I'm in. I'd also vote for rewriting the script at least partially. It would be cool to put up a similar video, but not just a ripoff of the same thing - that would seem more like a joke than a serious response.
I'm in for the homebrewer one. That would be a friggin blast.
I'm thinking about starting a separate thread for this...but...I want to see if we can name all of the brewers in that video. I know about half of them (partly because I've met some of them and also they were wearing brewery garb--easy to put 2 + 2 together), but their were lots I didn't know.
For example, who was the one at :09-:10 seconds? Is that the Jolly Pumpkin dude?
Let's make a list.
I'll list the ones I've met personally, but keep it going:
Dick Cantwell
Vinnie Cilurzo
Sam Calagione
Tomme Arthur
Sean Wilson (Fullsteam)
He's at :27 with all the fermenters in the horizontal position in the background.
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