Craft beer industry news.
Braxton Brewing Company will be expanding its distribution footprint within the state of Kentucky. Beginning on June 6th, the Covington, Kentucky-based company will launch can and draft beer distribution to Louisville in partnership with River City Distributing. In line with their origin, the company will host an Official Launch Party at Garage Bar on Market St. in NuLu on June 9th.
Mims Distributing Company, a wholesale beverage distributor in North Carolina, has announced its partnership with DraftLine SmartSystem as the first MillerCoors wholesaler to modernize its draft line cleaning administration. The application, designed to track the time required to service each individual draft account, utilizes GPS to ensure that every draft line is serviced within a two-week period.
Owly Oop Sports Pub will open soon at the new 108,000 sq ft UW Health Sports Factory in the growing Madison Street corridor of downtown Rockford. UW Health Sports Factory is managed by the Rockford Park District. Owly Oop will operate in just not one, but two locations inside building
The Brew Hut, Colorado’s largest homebrew supply shop, is finally old enough to drink! This monumental birthday comes in time for the completion of The Brew Hut’s expansion and new classroom.
The best way to celebrate a birthday is by gathering up your friends. New Belgium’s Fat Tire & Friends Collabeeration mixed pack is starting to hit store shelves. The pack features five of the nation’s best craft breweries, with each taking a turn at reimagining Fat Tire, New Belgium’s flagship beer.
California’s Napa Smith Brewery has announced a two-pronged expansion plan that will include the construction of a new multi-million dollar production facility in Vallejo, Calif. as well as the addition of shared brewing capacity at Turtle Anarchy Brewing in Nashville, Tenn. In a press release, the company, which expects to produce just 6,000 barrels of beer in 2016, called itself the “smallest independent bicoastal operation in North America.
Hi-Wire Brewing will release the third and fourth batches of their limited Single Barrel Series, Saturday, June 11 at 12:00 p.m. at the South Slope Specialty Brewery | 197 Hilliard Ave. Almost one year ago, HiWire Brewing transitioned their downtown Asheville brewery into a sour and wild ale facility, with a small portion of production dedicated to producing a different line of limited specialty beers which they are calling the Single Barrel Series. All Single Barrel Series releases are small batches fermented 100% in oak barrels with mixed yeast cultures, bottle conditioned with brettanomyces, and sold in cork and caged 750ml bottles.
Constantia Flexibles is pleased to announce the appointment of Stephan Kühne (52) as Chief Financial Officer and Member of the Management Board. He will join the flexible packaging and labels group on August 22, 2016, and succeeds former CFO Peter Frauenknecht.
Two Asheville originals, Asheville Brewing Co and Asheville native Caleb Johnson, have created a beer to celebrate the American Idol winner’s newest song release, “Hanging with the Band.”
Fusing Old World brewing traditions with bold, flavor-driven American ingenuity, Bock Bock® is a fine example of how Shmaltz Brewing Company continues to lift lagers to the creative heights that ales have enjoyed in the American craft beer movement. As well-crafted lagers come of age in the United States, brewmasters are churning out the most delicious lagers this country has ever produced. While Shmaltz’s Slingshot American Craft Lager® boasts a bright, citrusy hop aroma, supported by touches of wheat and rye, Bock Bock® hits the other end of the lager spectrum as a burly Imperial American Bock Lager aged in bourbon barrels for 11 months.
Oskar Blues Brewery, the brewery that launched the craft beer-in-a-can apocalypse in 2002, announces the national launch of an AmeriCAN take on the Belgian Classic Wit, Priscilla White Wit Wheat. It’s a Belgian White, Belgian Wit, Belgian Wheat…it’s a White Wit Wheat (5.2% ABV, 20 IBUs).
In partnership with Consumers Energy and Helios Solar, Arcadia Brewing Company has seized the opportunity to participate in facilitating a more sustainable landscape by installing solar panels on the roof of the Kalamazoo Riverfront Brewery and Pub to capture and re-sell clean energy.
Yards Brewing Company, a Philadelphia-based regional craft brewery established in 1994, has launched a new campaign called Summer in Our Backyard. This 360° campaign will run from Memorial Day Weekend through Labor Day Weekend and will celebrate all things summer in Philly.
Newcastle Brown Ale announces the introduction of its third, limited-edition variety pack brewed in collaboration with Newcastle’s sister brewery, Caledonian, one of the oldest and most respected breweries in the U.K. Available at retail beginning this May, Newcastle’s Variety Pack Batch #3 will include the brand’s new Caley Amber Ale in combination with returning, limited edition Newcastle British Pale Ale and flagship Newcastle Brown Ale.
