Craft beer industry news.
Clearwater’s local Sea Dog / Shipyard brewer Bobby Baker releases his Snicker Doodle Porter, a medium to full body porter with a strong malty background while the brown sugar, cinnamon, and sweet coffee malt create a warm, bready finish. 7.7% ABV, and 35 IBU’s.
Asheville-based Hi-Wire Brewing has signed with Healy Wholesale to expand its distribution beyond its current reach into the Fayetteville area of North Carolina. Once this expansion takes place, Hi-Wire Brewing will be available in restaurants, bottle shops and grocery stores across all of North Carolina.
Satellite Logistics Group (SLG), a leading supply-chain solution provider for the beverage industry, announced today that Chris Spradley has joined the company as craft brand account manager. In this newly created position, Spradley will serve as a liaison between craft beer customers and the company’s innovation, technology and business development areas.
Deschutes Brewery is excited to bring their pop-up pub of epic proportions to Chicago on Saturday, August 22. The ultimate craft beer block party, this 402-foot custom bar will be pouring beers from 40 taps in Logan Square at N. Milwaukee & N. California Avenue
Craft Brew Alliance today released its second quarter earnings results, which were highlighted by flat year-to-date depletion growth against a comparable six-month period last year, leading to disappointing topline growth.
It took 18 months, but Port Brewing/The Lost Abbey has finally bought out its disgraced former CFO, James Comstock. Comstock, a founding partner in the Port Brewing/Lost Abbey business, was arrested on Dec. 18, 2013 on charges that he took more than $200,000 from a San Diego-area nonprofit, ArtSplash, where he served as treasurer. Following his arrest, Comstock was immediately let go from the beer company and eventually pleaded guilty to embezzlement charges last July. He was sentenced to three years probation.
Since its launch in mid-2013, Modern Times Beer has been in a constant and neverending state of growth. After opening the doors to its production facility in the Point Loma area of San Diego, the company quickly began making plans for a separate off-site taproom in the craft-centric neighborhood of North Park.
AleSmith Brewing Company, a 20-year-old, award-winning San Diego craft brewery, signed with Clear River Beverage Company to distribute in Minnesota. In Virginia, AleSmith contracted with Specialty Beverage.
Oskar Blues Brewery is releasing a new IPA, Oskar Blues IPA, this August, in all 44 states in which Oskar Blues is sold.
With increased public demand, SanTan Brewing Company has announced the early release of their fall seasonal, Oktoberfest Lager.
Neil Byers, owner of Horse Thief Hollow Restaurant and Brewing Co. has been named winner of the 2015 Chicagoland Chamber of Commerce James Tyree Emerging Business Leadership Award. The restaurant and brewery was identified as a fast-growing business with a strong philanthropic connection.
Ayinger Oktober Fest-Märzen, one of the most highly-respected märzens available in the world (and the top-rated Oktoberfest/Märzen of 2014 at ratebeer.com) is arriving now at a store, bar or restaurant near you. This year, 4-packs of 330 mL bottles will join 500 mL bottles and 30 liter kegs!
Now entering its 19th year in the craft beer business, Stone Brewing Co. is in a state of unprecedented expansion.
Anheuser-Busch InBev just announced a pair of wholesaler transactions in Colorado that will give the world’s largest beer company direct access to a majority of the state’s population and a distribution foothold across nearly half of the state’s geography. In a statement, Bob Tallett, A-B InBev’s vice president of business and wholesaler development, said the company has agreed to purchase American Eagle Distributing in Loveland, Colo. for an undisclosed sum.
