Craft beer industry news.
In what can only be deemed a search for the country’s sandiest beach, Maui Brewing today announced plans to expand distribution to Florida, signing with Cavalier Distributing for coverage throughout the state.
Following up the huge success of last years El Scorpion En Fuego might be hard. Not a day goes by when the brewery is not asked when they will brew that beer again. Brad Shell says it will be a while, if ever, that specific beer will come back, but he wants to keep the inspiration going year after year.
In the last 6 months, Asheville based Hi-Wire Brewing, which was named Best New North Carolina Brewery of 2013 by RateBeer, underwent an extensive expansion and brought on line their 27,000 square foot Big Top production facility (2 Huntmans Place, Asheville, NC). The increased brewing capacity allowed the two year old brewery to not only make a larger amount of their well known flagship beers but also introduce new ones to the lineup, including a series of lager seasonals. The expansion also gave the brewery the opportunity to launch new markets, including South Carolina in September and, in the month of October, Tennessee.
Today, Anchor Brewing Company announces the release of Anchor Barrel Ale™, the third release in the Anchor Argonaut Collection.
MillerCoors has tabled plans to release a new summer seasonal ale after some wholesalers — including those on the company’s distributor council — criticized the new introduction. The company will instead release “Blue Moon Belgian Table Belgian Pils,” it told distributors today.
Bayhawk Ales, the oldest brewery in Orange County, Calif., is being rebranded as Evans Brewing Co. This isn’t just any recalibration. This is the result of a lost proxy battle and the hostile takeover of a public company. But now, under the Evans name, the company, which is in some ways new and in some ways old, is finally looking towards the future.
Overshores Brewing Co. of East Haven, CT recently expanded the availability of their premium award-winning Belgian inspired beer by entering their fourth market in less than 18 months of operation. Massachusetts residents now have access to four of Overshores’ signature beers.
Mims Distributing Company, a wholesale beverage distributor in North Carolina, has announced that its weekly craft beer podcast, “Tales From The Cask,” has been recognized as one of the top beer podcasts in the nation. The podcast placed second in the best podcast/broadcast category at the 2015 North American Guild of Beer Writers Awards, which honors the best beer and brewing industry coverage in nine categories.
Sun King Brewery is proud to celebrate Indiana’s strong heritage of basketball with the release of a limited number of cans of Tip-Off Ale, a German-style Altbier with a rich copper color and mellow malt flavor.
Toppling Goliath Brewing Company President Clark Lewey is pleased to announce that that a distribution agreement has been reached with Johnson Brothers to distribute its beers throughout the State of Nebras
Craft Brew Alliance, Inc. (“CBA”) (NASDAQ:BREW), a leading craft brewing company, announced today that it will hold a question-and-answer conference call for the third quarter ended September 30, 2015, on Thursday, November 5, 2015, at 8:30 a.m. PST (11:30 a.m. EST).
Remember the class action lawsuit from earlier this year that alleged MillerCoors was deceptively brewing and marketing its Blue Moon Brewing line of craft products? Well, on Wednesday, a California judge all but dismissed the suit, saying that the company’s use of the Blue Moon Brewing Company name on its label “shielded it from liability under California’s consumer protection laws under safe harbor doctrine,” according to Law360.
It’s been nearly 16 years since Boulevard Brewing altered its appearance, but in an effort to appeal to more consumers in more places, the Kansas City-based brewery is now beginning to test new packaging designs. Over the next several months, the company plans to introduce new labels, designed in partnership with Helms Workshop, a Texas-based strategic design studio that has worked with beverage clients like Austin Beerworks, Spencer Trappist Brewery and Southern Comfort.
Oskar Blues is now nearly national. The Colorado-headquartered craft brewery today announced expanded distribution in Mississippi and Utah, bringing the total number of states where it sells beer to 46. The company has signed with four distributors in Mississippi — Clark Beverage Group, Stokes Distributing Company, Capital City Beverage and FEB Distributing — and M&M Distributing (part of Admiral Beverage) in Utah.
