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Pabst Brewing Company     (U.S.A.)    

Website: http://www.pabst.com
Concerns: Used grain is used for livestock feed. The majority of this grain is used for dairy cows. [29]
Correspondance: 6/4/03
"Neither Pabst beer nor any of the beers produced by the Pabst Brewing Company are made of animal products or by-products. Our beer ingredients are strictly malted barley, corn (in the form of corn syrup), hops, and water. Of course it takes a plant called yeast to change these ingredients into beer.
Nor are any animal products used in the processing of Pabst beers, be it filtration, clarifying, or stabilizing the beer.
Most of the spent grains from our brewing process end up as cattle feed, especially feed for dairy cattle. A small portion sometimes ends up as supplement in dog or cat food." [29]

Pete's Brewing Company     (U.S.A.)    

Website: http://www.peteswicked.com
Concerns: Brewery did not provide information on how they disposed of their used grain.
Correspondance: 12/4/03
"Thanks for writing in. There are no animal ingredients used in making Pete's Wicked beers. Our beers do not contain any sulfites, sulfates or other sulphur compounds. They are all natural (not organic, just to clarify) and are also Kosher certified." [62]

Portland Brewing Company     (U.S.A.)    

Website: http://www.portlandbrew.com
Concerns: Used grain is used on a farm to feed cows. Oregon Honey Beer contains honey as an ingredient. [50]
Correspondance: 6/13/03
"I will try to answer your questuions as asked:
1. Our beers are 100% grain (barley & sometimes wheat) and use natural hop pellets...other ingredients are water and yeast. There is, of course, the debate as to whether yeast is a plant or an animal. The latter would preclude all beer from strict vegan consideration even though our beer (like most beer) filters out the yeast before packaging. We do have one beer (Oregon Honey Beer) which contains honey.
2. We do not use isinglass or gelatins as filter aids. These are mostly used by very small breweries and pubs in the English tradition where as larger brewers mostly use silica (sand) as a filter aid.
3.All of our spent grain (like every other production brewery I have been to but one) is used as cattle feed. The only brewery that I know of that does not use their spent grains as cattle feed is San Miguel in Hong Kong. With no cattle herds in the New Terretories and going across the border into Guangdong being problematic they are drying and burning the grain and recovering the energy." [50]

Pyramid Breweries, Inc     (U.S.A. - West Coast)    

Website: http://www.pyramidbrew.com
Concerns:
Correspondance:
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Posted/Updated: 12/28/03