HOWDY, I am the "Alamo Beer Guy". Funny contract brew agreement, but very true. I am proud to say that ALAMO Golden Ale is brewed and bottled by the good folks at Real Ale Brewing Company of Blanco Texas. If you ever get a 6pak you will see it right there on the label. Now, the rest of the story.... A few years back I approached Real Ale about making a brew for me that I could market under the name ALAMO which I was lucky enough to trademark. The brewmeister/owner liked the idea and offered up several brews for me to taste. The #4 was selected because I was looking for something that would appeal to a great many beer drinker and would not scare away folks that where trying a microbrew for the first time. At the time #4 was only on draught in Austin. So, ALAMO Golden was born and enjoyed by tourist and locals alike in San Antonio. Well, that was a little over 2 years ago and ALAMO now is available in about 25 places plus 10 supermarkets. Many buy it for the first time just because of the name (us Texans love our Alamo) and I am proud to say that most buy it again because they like it. As you have found, ALAMO/#4 is one nice brew and easy to enjoy. Good news is that ALAMO will be going into over 200 supermarkets across South Texas in April 2006 and statewide by the end of 2006. Not to worry, the new Real Ale brewery (just a mile or so north of the old one) will be online soon and will have plenty of capacity to keep up with increasing product demand.
The goal here is to get folks to support (drink) microbrews and in the case of ALAMO to drink a Texas made microbrew. The sad fact is that most people are not drinking beer, they are consuming advertising. Case in point, on any visit to Flying Saucer with over a 100 beers on tap, you will always find some brainwashed morons drinking BudLight. So I am very glad that there are folks like you out there talking up the virtues of fine handcrafted beers. Three Cheers for microbeers....