Curtis2010
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Toured the Gallo brewery here in Guatemala City, Guatemala yesterday. Impressive, modern, fully automated facility. Current system cranks out about 40,000 bottles per hour! Quite an evolution from a totally manual brewery that was started here in 1886.
Lots of interesting history which they have chosen to preserve. For example, some of the old narrow gauge tracks formerly used to move materials around have been preserved in situ. They have also preserved many generations of past equipment including the entire brew house from 1936 in immaculate condition -- complete with copper kettles imported from Germany.
Their flagship product, "Gallo", is a pretty typical mass produced adjunct beer. However, their "Moza" and "Moza Gold", while still mass produced beers, are not bad renditions of bock beers.
Talked with a member of the Castillo family (owners of Gallo) while I was there -- turns out his son is a home brewer.
Lots of interesting history which they have chosen to preserve. For example, some of the old narrow gauge tracks formerly used to move materials around have been preserved in situ. They have also preserved many generations of past equipment including the entire brew house from 1936 in immaculate condition -- complete with copper kettles imported from Germany.
Their flagship product, "Gallo", is a pretty typical mass produced adjunct beer. However, their "Moza" and "Moza Gold", while still mass produced beers, are not bad renditions of bock beers.
Talked with a member of the Castillo family (owners of Gallo) while I was there -- turns out his son is a home brewer.