Craft beer industry news.
A growing number of Boston-area beer companies have turned to pop-up beer gardens in an effort to engage consumers during the summer months. Despite an array of outdoor options for drinkers to grab a beer on a hot summer day, Boston-area craft brewery Night Shift still sees opportunity to expose local consumers to its brands.
Boston Beer Company chief marketing officer Jon Potter will depart the country’s second-largest craft brewery at the end of the month, the company disclosed in an SEC filing issued yesterday. Potter, who joined the beer, cider and flavored malt beverage producer in August 2016, is credited with engineering the company’s “Fill Your Glass” advertising campaign that debuted during last year’s Major League Baseball World Series.
King Canary Brewing Company, a family-friendly brewery on Lake Norman in Mooresville NC celebrated their grand opening in mid-May and are now in full swing as a taproom offering classic and unique beers. Founders’ Matt and Andrea Gravina welcomed their first guests after conceptualizing, planning, and renovating the brewery.
Figueroa Mountain Brewing® Co.’s recent expansion is moving rapidly with several moving parts now online. Within the past month, the company’s Buellton headquarters have completed installation of a 60bbl BrauKon brewhouse, three new fermenters, a new Comac canning line and additional packaging equipment, all of which have begun running.
After years of product testing and development Braxton Brewing Company is launching into a new category. Cans of Kickback Hard Apple Cider and Kickback Rosé Cider will be available across the company’s distribution network the week of July 23rd.
Southern California’s favorite reggae/alt/hip-hop band Dirty Heads have something special brewing for their fans this Summer. The band recently collaborated with hometown Huntington Beach, CA craft brewery Four Sons Brewing to create a crisp, refreshing pineapple Session Ale dubbed “Vacation,” slated to hit shelves in August 2018.
Huss Brewing Company, led by the husband and wife team of Jeff and Leah Huss and based in Arizona, is leveraging more than 25 years of craft beer experience to launch a new set of products packaged in environmentally-friendly aluminum beverage cans.
Chatham Brewing, Columbia County’s first and finest brewery in New York’s upper Hudson Valley, has announced the release of A Perfect Storm, a unique mix and matched six pack of the brewery’s three storm inspired beer styles. The promotional package will be available beginning today, July 13.
Shebeen Brewing Co. is pleased to announce their continued partnership with Florida distributor, Vintage Distributors LLC in expanding distribution coverage of the East Coast.
Canarchy Craft Brewery Collective has finalized its second deal in as many months, today announcing the acquisition of Los Angeles-based Three Weavers Brewing Company. Specific financial terms of the transaction were not disclosed, but Three Weavers co-founder Lynne Weaver described the deal with the Fireman Capital-backed brewery rollup as a “strategic partnership” that would put her company in a better position to “weather any possible economic storms.”
Mother of Dragons, a beer brewed for Daenerys Targaryen, is the third beer in this year’s Royal Reserve Collection, a series of four limited release beers, each designed and brewed as an homage to one of four epic figures engaged in the battle for the Seven Kingdoms.
The American rock band The National now have their very own beer – a ’Reality Based Pils’ brewed in collaboration with the Danish microbrewery Mikkeller. It is quite unlikely that the five members of The National will ever come off stage thirsting for beer again. When the band goes back on tour or return to their Hudson Valley Studio, Long Pond, it will be with the privilege of a fridge stacked with cans of their very own The National beer.
Cross-Pollination can be found in 22-ounce bottles throughout the Roaring Fork Valley as well as on tap at RFBC’s tasting room in downtown Carbondale (Batch) and on tap at the Odell Brewing tasting room in Fort Collins Colorado.
After five years traveling around the Northeast ‘gypsy brewing’ and building our brand, Charter Oak Brewing has chosen Danbury, Connecticut for their permanent headquarters.
