More than 300 winners were honored during the Brewers Association’s (BA) 2023 World Beer Cup (WBC) during Craft Brewers Conference in Nashville this week. Guinness Baltimore Blonde – the signature offering of brewing operations at Diageo’s Relay, Maryland-based production facility – has become such a local icon that one Baltimore County official wants to invest $500,000 in a local brewer to keep the beer flowing, according to the Baltimore Banner.
Night Shift Brewing announces the reopening of their two Boston-area beer gardens – one at the Esplanade on May 10, one in Allston’s Herter Park on May 11.
MassDevelopment has provided a $276,250 equipment loan to Harper Lane Brewery LLC to help the company buy brewing equipment for its proposed facility at 16 Wareham St. in downtown Middleborough, including a canning line, kegs, a keg washer, tanks, refrigeration, and HVAC wall mount units.
The whirlwind that is the Craft Brewers Conference is finally over. Through a haze of honky-tonks and jet lag, I’m still unpacking the week of beer business talk in Nashville.
Country Malt Group (CMG), a leading supplier of ingredients for North American brewers and distillers, has partnered with BevPort Distribution, the creators of a new digital beer distribution service, to provide breweries with a new way to deliver their beer to retailers, coming late this summer.
Clayton Hops, New Zealand’s largest hop grower, have partnered with Plant & Food Research to develop and evaluate six advanced selections from the Plant & Food Research hop programme.
Bravus, America’s first brewery dedicated solely to producing premium non-alcoholic craft beer, has announced its continued market expansion to three U.S. regions with Anheuser Busch, Miller Coors, and Craft Independent distribution.
The Brewers Association (BA)—the not-for-profit trade group dedicated to promoting and protecting America’s small and independent craft brewers—recognized 307 winners during the 2023 World Beer Cup (WBC) awards ceremony on May 10, 2023.
Athletic Brewing Company, America’s leading producer of non-alcoholic craft beer, has been named the official non-alcoholic beer sponsor of the Walker Hayes Duck Buck Tour.
Barr Hill Gin, the most awarded gin in the United States and #1 gin in Vermont, whose product is distilled by Vermont-based Caledonia Spirits, announces the launch and distribution of its first-ever canned cocktail — a Gin & Tonic – through a partnership with The Beer Guy, the distribution arm of the revered Vermont brewery Lawson’s Finest Liquids.
This week’s Brewbound Podcast rebroadcasts two Brew Talks conversations from the 2023 Craft Brewers Conference. The first is an introduction to the National Black Brewers Association, a newly formed trade group. Then, three brewery leaders share their experiences with expanding their taproom presences in out-of-state markets.
