Craft beer industry news.
Narragansett Beer is proud to announce industry veteran Lee Lord as the new head brewer. A tried–and–true New Englander, Lord joins Narragansett, as the brand’s first ever female head brewer, armed with more than a decade ofexperience in the craft beer and brewing industry.
Dust off the board shorts, smear on some sunscreen, and ready the cooler! California brewery SLO Brew is starting summer early with a 100-foot seltzer-powered slip n slide to celebrate the launch of Cali-Squeeze Hard Seltzer.
Despite the pandemic, Buffalo Creek Brewing in historic downtown Long Grove experienced a stunning growth surge over the last year and has signed with Louis Glunz Beer Inc. to expand it distribution into Chicago and beyond in 2021.
Inspired by Athletic’s San Diego-based brewer Cara Wilson, Trailblazer features the 2021 Pink Boots Hop Blend of Ahtanum®, Cashmere, Citra®, Loral®, and Sabro® hops, which creates a blend of tropical, herbal, citrus & woody aromatic qualities.
Central Virginia’s Stable Craft Brewing at Hermitage Hill, an authentic working farm brewery and winery, will celebrate St. Patrick Day this month with three parties featuring outdoor live music, special beer, cider and food offerings on Saturday, March 13, Wednesday, March 17 and Saturday, March 20.
After terminating four workers from its Indianapolis taproom earlier this week, BrewDog has also let go of the employee who approved the firings and hired an external human relations firm to investigate. All four of the workers who were terminated on Monday, March 8, are members of the LGBTQ community; two are women and two are non-binary.
Congress passed the $1.9 trillion COVID-19 relief package, which now advances to President Joe Biden for an expected signature.
“We obviously had grown so quickly that I just knew there was going to be an extent at how much we could realistically scale the business on our own, just due to our existing infrastructure, our own resources, and, quite frankly, even our kind of experience,” Far West Spirits founder Katie Beal Brown told Brewbound.
The May 1 launch of a line of hard seltzers branded with fast-food chain Sonic’s name and proprietary beverage flavors has the potential to make Oklahoma City craft brewery COOP Ale Works a player in the $4 billion hard seltzer segment, president Sean Mossman told Brewbound.
Eight in 10 regular craft beer drinkers believe breweries should be allowed to ship beer directly to consumers in more states than the 13 where the practice is legal, according to a study published by the Brewers Association (BA) and Sovos ShipCompliant.
Austin-based Ranch Rider Spirits is taking the hard seltzer market by storm, with a new CEO at the helm: John Scarborough. Scarborough comes to Ranch Rider from his previous role as President of Deep Eddy Vodka, bringing deep industry experience to guide Ranch Rider’s rapid brand growth and distribution expansion.
Boochcraft, the country’s #1 selling hard kombucha, announces major East Coast distribution expansion to New York, New Jersey, Massachusetts, and Rhode Island. The five-year-old hard kombucha company, which prides itself on using whole organic fruit and fair trade ingredients for its 7% ABV beverages, is a staple at retailers like Whole Foods, Sprouts, Erewhon, and other national chains.
A new pale ale, ‘No Place Like Home,’ is fresh from the tanks at Country Boy Brewing. In the tradition of their hazy ales, it is named after a climbing route in the Red River Gorge, but this one is for a cause – 100% of the sales are being donated back to Kentucky flood relief through the American Red Cross.
D.G. Yuengling & Son, Inc., America’s Oldest Brewery®, is celebrating International Women’s Day by supportingPink Boots Society, a nonprofit focused on encouraging and inspiring women beer professionals through education. Yuengling participated in Pink Boots Collaboration Brew Day®, which provides an opportunity for chapter members and breweries to brew their chosen beer style and take part in International Women’s Day by raising money for educational scholarships and programming for women in the beer industry.
