Brewery Information Page B

Back Road Brewery    

Website: http://www.backroadbrewery.com
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Bad Frog    

Website: http://www.badfrog.com
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Ballast Point Brewing Company    

Website: http://www.ballastpoint.com
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Barley Creek Brewing Company    

Website: http://www.barleycreek.com
Concerns: This breweries specialty beers are fined using isinglass. Some of their specialty beers also contain animal products in the ingredients. All other types of beer from this brewery are fined using gelatin. Farmer uses the spent grain as feed. [52]
Correspondance: 11/06/03
1. Are there any animal products or byproducts (honey, etc) contained in any of your beers?
"Yes (a few of our specialty brews)"
2. Are there any animal products or byproducts (isinglass, gelatin, etc) used in the manufacture (such as in the filtering or fining process) of your products? While materials used in fining do not end up in the final product, strict vegans have an aversion to the use of animal products in situations as such.
"Yes (Isinglass for cask conditioned brews & Clear Fine, a gelatin for the others)"
3. What does your company do with the waste grain after it is used?
"Farmer gets the spent grain after a brew and uses it as feed. We feel it is better than filling up land fills with it." [52]

Bayern Brewing     (Missoula, Montana)    

Website: http://www.bayernbrewery.com
Concerns: Grain is sent to an organic rancher. [39] Vegans may also object to the name of the beer called "Trout Slayer." It is vegan, but a bit offensive; your call. [47]
Correspondance: 6/16/03
"We use in our beer only malted barley,yeast,hops and water. For filtration we use diatomeceous earth and our spent grains go to an organic rancher . So I don't know whether that is good or bad for you. Yeast of course are micro organismens and is drained after the process.Other than that we don't use anything else in the process. [. . .] My wife is a strict vegan also and I am halfway there,too.But we both drink our beer." [39]

Bayhawk Ales    

Website: http://www.bayhawkales.com
Concerns: This brewery’s products are filtered using animal products some of the time. However, their Stout and Hefe Weizen beer are unfiltered and therefore considered vegan. [16] Aside from being filtered with animal products, Honey Blonde Ale contains honey which some vegans choose to avoid. [14, 16]
Correspondance: 5/26/03
"85% of the time our beers are not fined with animal products. We have two beers that are never filtered, Stout and Hefe Weizen. To the best of my knowledge, no animal products ever come in contact with these two beers. We do employ Honey in our Honey Blonde Ale. Regarding our spent grain, this has always been a source of great concern to me. Unfortunately at this point in time, we have to dispose of it with the regular garbage." [16]

Bear Creek Brewing Co.    

Website: http://www.bearcreekbrewing.com
Concerns: Spent grain used by a farmer for feed. [58]
Correspondance: 11/09/03
"1) We only used honey in one beer, our honey blonde and that was over two ye[a]rs ago. nothing since then.
2) The only fining we use is iris[h] moss, a plant by product that helps clump the pr[o]tiens in th[e] beer to reduce the hazyness.
3) Our grain is hauled away by a local farmer who feeds it to his pigs and cows but the pigs and cows don't ever get into the beer." [58]

Bear Republic Brewing Co.    

Website: http://www.bearrepublic.com
Concerns: Grain is used by a farmer for feed [61]
Correspondance: 11/10/03, 11/14/03
"The ingredients we use for our beers do not include any animal bi-products during the brewing process, to the final product." [56] "We do not use any bi-products DURING the brewing process here. . . We give our spent grain to cattle ranchers to feed their cows." [61]

Big Horn Brewing (RAM Intl. LLC)    

Website: http://www.theram.com
Concerns: Spent grain given to farmers for livestock feed. [17]
Correspondance: 5/27/03
"Are there any animal products or byproducts (honey, etc) contained in any of your beers?
Not in our standard beers [. . .] We do fine our beers in most of the breweries. The isinglass we use is a synthetic product. It is not actual animal products. When we don't fine, we filter. We use the same filter medium everyone else in the beer industry uses. They either use filter pads, embedded with diatomaceous earth (DE), or they use a DE filter.
What does your company do with the waste grain after it is used?
We give it to farmers whenever we can. There are only 2 of the 22 breweries we operate where we can't get farmers to pick up the grain. Those are both in Chicago." [17]

Big Sky Brewing Company    

Website: http://www.bigskybrew.com
Concerns: Spent grain is sent to ranches to be used as feed for cattle. [33]
Correspondance: 6/5/03
"Our Summer Honey Ale does contain honey as you might guess! None of our other beers contain any animal products or byproducts.
2. (animal ingredients used in fining/filtering) No
3. (used grain) It is hauled away by cattle ranchers and used as feed." [33]

Big Time Brewery & Alehouse    

Website: http://www.bigtimebrewery.com
Concerns: This brewery has a product by the name of Frosty's Special Winter Warmer. This product contains honey and is not considered vegan for the purposes of this website though some vegans consume honey.
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Black Mountain Brewing Co.    

Website: www.chilibeer.com
Concerns: - -
Correspondance: 5/21/03
"As far as I know there would be nothing in any beer, or the filtration process, that would come anywhere close to an animal product. Beer is made from Water, (Malted Barley (sprouted)) Yeast and hops. Filtration is either charcoal, diatomaceous earth or paper. This is as close to a natural vegetable product you can get.
Ed" [5] (While we know Ed to be mistaken we can be reasonably sure that if he doesn’t know of animal products used in brewing beer, he doesn’t use them.)

Bonnema Brewing Co.    

Website: http://www.bonnemabrewing.com
Concerns: The grains used to filter the beer are then used as a high protein food for dairy cows. [15]
Correspondance: 5/25/03
"we use no animal products in any of our beers we also use no additives. Our spent grain is hauled off by a local farmer and fed to his livestock." [15]

Boston Beer Company    

Website: http://www.bostonbeer.com       http://www.samadams.com
Concerns: This brewery uses gelatin in one of its beers called Cask Conditioned Ale which is exclusively limited to the city of Boston. All other beers are vegan. The brewery’s used grain is also sent to farmers to be used as food for livestock. [18]
Correspondance: 5/27/03
"We do not use any animal products in our production beers. We have used gelatin in 1 product called Cask Conditioned Ale. It is very rare, and is in very limited distribution in a couple of bars in Boston. If you see any beer listed as "real ale" or "cask conditioned ale" it may have gelatin or isinglass in it as a clarifying agent. Again, our bottles and our regular draft beer has no animal products. Most of our waste grain is sent to local farms for animal feed. We hope this is helpful information." [18]

Boulevard Brewing Co.    

Website: http://www.blvdbeer.com
Concerns: The grains used to filter the beer are then sold to farmers to be used as a high protein food for livestock. [11, 22] There are no animal products used in the ingredients or manufacture of Boulevard beers. [22]
Correspondance: 5/28/03
"Thank you for interest in the Boulevard beers. We have received questions and concerns from vegetarians before. To answer your questions:
1. Animal products contained in our beer
No, none of our beers is brewed with any kind of animal product or byproduct
2. Use of animal byproducts
I am not sure if algae are objectionable to vegetarians. We use "Irish Moss" and "kappa carageenan", derived from algae.
3. Spent grain
At this moment spent grain is sold to farmers for kettle feed." [22]

Brekenridge Brewery    

Website: http://www.breckbrew.com
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BridgePort Brewing Company    

Website: http://www.bridgeportbrew.com
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Bristol Brewing Company    

Website: http://www.bridgeportbrew.com
Concerns: This brewery has a product by the name of Beehive Honey. [12] This product contains honey and is not considered vegan for the purposes of this website though some vegans consume honey. The grain left from the brewing process is used by a ranch to feed their cattle. [53]
Correspondance: 11/12/03
1. Bee hive contains honey, the rest of our beers do not.
2. We use Diatomaceous Earth for filtering
3. Spent grain still contains 90-95% of the original carbohydrate and we give it to local ranchers for feed.

Brooklyn Brewery    

Website: http://www.brooklynbrewery.com
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Buzzards Bay Brewing    

Website: http://www.buzzardsbrew.com
Concerns: The spent grain from the brewery is sent to a dairy farm where it is used as feed for cows. [30]
Correspondance: 6/5/03
"To answer your questions:
1. (Animal products for ingredients) No.
2. (Animal products used in fining/filtering) No.
3. (Spent grain) There is a dairy farmer about half a mile down the road from us that comes and picks up the spent grain to feed to his cows." [30] comments in parenthesis added

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Posted/Updated: 11/13/03