It has a bar that features 75 beers on tap and, for German standards, uncommonly friendly service staff.“When they hear about us, the average German thinks, ‘Wow, that’s a pretty odd idea,’” Koch said in an interview when asked about the audacity of investing $29 million in an American brewery in Berlin. “Some Germans have complained, ‘What’s an American doing here trying to teach us about beer?’” said Michael Jastram, a 63-year-old Berlin sculptor and regular patron. “But, of course, who wants to drink industrial beer?”Germans, he said, pay less for beer than any other Western Europeans. Mexico’s Pacific coast resort of Acapulco is hoping for the return of tourists as the coronavirus outbreak recedes and gang violence slowly subsides.The raid this week of Apple Daily’s newsroom and leadership changes at broadcaster iCable highlight the shrinking space for independent journalism as Beijing exerts more control over a once freewheeling Hong Kong.A senior U.S. diplomat says a team of FBI investigators is due to arrive in Lebanon this weekend to assist in the investigation of Beirut’s massive explosion. “I have to admit I was skeptical at first about American beer. Here are the details: Cheap is not an attribute. Stone Brewing Co. (Escondido, CA) promised a big announcement today.
It’s strong, an excellent product.”Germans celebrate their famous brews, their beer-drinking and their powerful brewing industry with a near-patriotic enthusiasm. “The only thing that matters is that it tastes good, and this tastes very good, very fresh and very strong,” said Wagner, an Austrian who has lived in Berlin for decades.

Loyal customers and a GoFundMe campaign hope to carry it through the pandemic.L.A. The brewery said it will continue to distribute its beer throughout Germany, after making many "converts" in Europe. You may need to download version 2.0 now from the Stone Brewing, the fast-growing Escondido beer brand, is bringing its unorthodox American craft brews to a country with a beer culture steeped in hundreds of years of tradition: Germany.

(Aug. 8, 2017)Some Germans thought Greg Koch was courageous. The last operation day as Stone’s brewery is April 30th. Others considered the Californian crazy.In one of the world’s biggest beer drinking countries, already saturated with 1,388 breweries and 5,000 brands of beer, the entrepreneur from San Diego was determined to establish an American-style craft beer brewery.It is a cavernous temple to beer built out of the ruins of an abandoned gasworks plant dating to the turn of the last century.
“We invested a significant portion of a decade and significant millions building Stone Berlin. “That reputation of watery beer has made it even more difficult for Stone. Stone Brewing Berlin, Stone’s international production facility and bistro that opened in 2016, has been sold to Brewdog. Less than three years after Stone Brewing, one of the largest craft breweries in the U.S., opened a brewery in Germany’s capital Berlin, the California brewer admitted its failure and announced to sell the site to Scottish craft brewer BrewDog. The state agency tasked with protecting California workers moves to address ‘crippling’ vacancies after L.A. Times reportThe new school year of remote learning will bring unique challenges.

Germans are used to drinking beer in bottles because they want to recycle them, not throw them away.”Koch agreed that he faces an uphill battle in Germany, where most people believe the country’s “It’s a form of brainwashing,” Koch said. It’s only been in recent years, thanks to younger Germans who’ve tried American craft beer, who know the truth is completely different and the quality of American craft beer is truly outstanding.”But it’s not only younger Germans who have discovered Koch’s craft beer palace. Stone Brewing Berlin will cost $25 million to complete. Whether you’re looking into a new career or making your new financial reality work for you, we’ve got tips. Craft brewers say that cans better preserve freshness, but many Germans don’t see it that way.“Cheap beer comes in cans,” Klotz said. The only possible result of cheap beer is cheap beer.”Koch said he wants Germans to try what he insists is better-tasting beer, even if it costs double or triple what they’re used to paying. Times sports columnist Bill Plaschke talks about experiencing COVID-19. Kamala Harris, Joe Biden’s vice presidential pick, went to high school in Montreal, where she learned to negotiate the straits of a diverse culture. “It’s what the bums in the street drink. Stone, which had more than $200 million in sales last year and is the ninth largest craft brewer in the United States, laid off roughly 5% of its 1,200-employee workforce last October.Klotz at Hopfenhelden said Europeans are quickly learning, as Americans have, to savor the richer flavors of craft beers. Stone Brewing wants Germany, the land of Oktoberfest, to like American craft beers Beer is drawn from one of the many taps inside the restaurant at Stone Brewery in Escondido. “They look at me with this quizzical expression like: ‘Don’t you know we already have beer in Germany?’”Other Germans, many with a beer superiority complex that comes with their 1,200-year beer tradition, are less diplomatic: “They’re like, ‘This is a crazy idea and what could you, as an American, possibly know about beer?’” Koch said.There is a lingering assumption here that American beer is nothing more than a watered-down imitation of the “The average German considers American beer to be thoroughly undrinkable, and that’s thanks to beer like Bud Light,” said Nina Anika Klotz, the founder of Germany’s first and largest craft beer magazine, Hopfenhelden. Some Germans thought Koch was courageous, while others considered him crazy. You may occasionally receive promotional content from the Los Angeles Times. Yes, he says, it’s really as bad as you’ve heard.Millions of Americans have lost their job due to COVID-19.