Craft beer industry news.
Bourbon Barrel-Aged Drafty Kilt (BBDK), a slow-sipping variant of Monday Night Brewing’s prized scotch ale, returns just in time for the holiday season. Hitting Monday Night’s West Midtown brewery on Friday, Nov. 16, BBDK will start populating store shelves and pouring at local watering holes across Georgia, Tennessee and Alabama on Nov. 19.
Lompoc Brewing will release eight holiday beers on draft this season. The beers will be available at a release party on Monday, Nov. 26 from 4 pm to 11 pm at Lompoc Sidebar, 3901 N Williams Ave. The beers will go on tap at Oaks Bottom and 5th Quadrant on Tuesday, Nov. 27. One of the beers, C-Sons Greetings, will also be released in 22-oz. bottles, which will be available at the release party.
Santa’s Private Reserve, the annual collaboration between Rogue Ales & Spirits and Santa Claus hits shelves this month. The beer is always packed with enough cheer to supply any holiday party and this year the 2018 vintage of Santa’s Private Reserve is a Belgian dark ale packed with tangerines and boysenberries.
This week, 1623 Brewing Company introduces Pilsner as the latest addition to their lineup of clean and complex innovations of tried-and-true style beers. Pilsner will be available in 6-packs of 12 oz. cans and on draft across central Maryland alongside the brewery’s Hefeweizen and IPA.
Half Full Brewery (Half Full) & Lock City Brewing (Lock City) are excited to announce “Welcome to Fabulous Stam Vegas,” the first collaboration between the Stamford based breweries.
Sprecher Brewery just released Winter Lager, a highly awarded Munich style Dunkel fans seek out every year.
Strange Craft Beer Co. is gearing up for the holiday season with their annual release of Gingerbread Man, available on draft and in crowlers
Stone Brewing vice president Todd Karnig has departed the San Diego-based craft brewery, Brewbound has learned. Karnig is the second key executive to leave Stone Brewing in the last year, and the third since former POM Wonderful president Dominic Engels was hired as the company’s new CEO. Karnig’s exit also comes about a month after Stone hired former Monster Energy executive Dan Lamb as its chief commercial officer.
The next installment of the B-Dubs Brew Series at Buffalo Wild Wings is all about the Legends of Craft Beer. The beverage promotion features unique variations of Golden Ale style beer created by three of the most successful craft breweries in the country — New Belgium, Dogfish Head and Sierra Nevada.
Odell Brewing’s latest year-round release, Sippin’ Pretty, is a ruby red, 4.5% ABV Fruited Sour brewed with a unique blend of super fruits and balanced with a touch of pink sea salt. Sippin’ Pretty gets it’s bright color and fruit flavors from Brazilian guava and acai, mountain-grown elderberries, and pink sea salt from the Himalayas.
Short’s Brewing Company is excited to reveal their 2019 Release Schedule for the first quarter including the introduction of their new flagship beer, Juicy Brut. The lineup includes a mix of old favorites, new packaging options, previously pub-only releases, and Short’s 10,000th production batch of beer.
The Labatt Brew House, Labatt’s first innovation brewery in the U.S., is now open and tasked with creating new beers for the beloved import brand.
Fremont Brewing’s Lush India Pale Ale will be served on all Alaska Airlines flights starting November 16, 2018. The partnership was first publicly announced in an Alaska Airlines blog post on November 13th. Made with a hand-selected blend of malts and Citra and Mosaic hops, Lush evokes the pure essence of the hops that define its clean, juicy, and tropical flavor.
Just in time for the holiday season, Sprecher Brewery will release XII Dragons, a Kentucky Bourbon barrel aged Belgian Quad. Rather than going straight from the finishing tanks to the bottling line a few barrels of Sprecher Brewery’s award-winning Quad have been resting for almost two years in Kentucky Bourbon barrels while becoming XII Dragons.
