{"id":708,"date":"2008-12-26T17:26:20","date_gmt":"2008-12-27T00:26:20","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/appellationbeer.com\/blog\/?p=708"},"modified":"2008-12-26T19:19:39","modified_gmt":"2008-12-27T02:19:39","slug":"budweiser-budvar-not-so-small","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/appellationbeer.com\/blog\/budweiser-budvar-not-so-small\/","title":{"rendered":"Budweiser Budvar: Not so small"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Compared to Anheuser-Busch, Budejovick\u00fd Budvar in the Czech Republic &#151; the other producer of Budweiser &#151; is small. But there&#8217;s small, and there&#8217;s small.<\/p>\n<p>Budvar brews more than a million hectoliters a year and soon will be able to make 1.3 million. I wouldn&#8217;t necessarily call that small. Here&#8217;s about a minute of video shot in the bottling hall, which also isn&#8217;t small. I used our pocket camera to record the video, so excuse the production quality. (If you click on over to YouTube to watch it, then hit &#8220;watch in high quality&#8221; it&#8217;s a little better.)<\/p>\n<p><center><object width=\"425\" height=\"344\"><param name=\"movie\" value=\"http:\/\/www.youtube.com\/v\/OL91kC_Zklw&#038;hl=en&#038;fs=1\"><\/param><param name=\"allowFullScreen\" value=\"true\"><\/param><param name=\"allowscriptaccess\" value=\"always\"><\/param><\/object><\/center><\/p>\n<p>In contrast, Pilsner Urquell is <em>so<\/em> big that I&#8217;m not sure how you&#8217;d try to capture the bottling plant with a video. Then there is Berliner-Kindl-Schultheiss in Berlin, which brews 1.6 million hectos a year. The brewery has two plants within one hall, each aiming to package 50,000 bottles an hour. There&#8217;s a large display at each end which counts just how fast the line is running. The digital display will read 49,893 one second, 49,896 the next, then 49,894. <\/p>\n<p>That&#8217;s a lot of beer.<\/p>\n<p><!--adsense--><\/p>\n<p><code>&nbsp;<\/code><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Compared to Anheuser-Busch, Budejovick\u00fd Budvar in the Czech Republic &#151; the other producer of Budweiser &#151; is small. But there&#8217;s small, and there&#8217;s small. Budvar brews more than a million hectoliters a year and soon will be able to make 1.3 million. I wouldn&#8217;t necessarily call that small. Here&#8217;s about a minute of video shot &#8230; <a title=\"Budweiser Budvar: Not so small\" class=\"read-more\" href=\"https:\/\/appellationbeer.com\/blog\/budweiser-budvar-not-so-small\/\" aria-label=\"More on Budweiser Budvar: Not so small\">Read more<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[17],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-708","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-beers-of-conviction"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p4wTn-bq","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/appellationbeer.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/708","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/appellationbeer.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/appellationbeer.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/appellationbeer.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/appellationbeer.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=708"}],"version-history":[{"count":6,"href":"https:\/\/appellationbeer.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/708\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":718,"href":"https:\/\/appellationbeer.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/708\/revisions\/718"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/appellationbeer.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=708"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/appellationbeer.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=708"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/appellationbeer.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=708"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}