Craft beer industry news.
Port City Brewing Company is proud to announce the newest beer in its limited release, draft-only Lager Series. Born at the turn of the19th century when exported British porter was incorporated into the Baltic states’ lager tradition, Baltic Porter is a strong, dark beer with a clean lager character and loads of malt flavor reminiscent of toffee, toast, chocolate, and Port wine.
Wynwood Brewing has created a collaboration beer with Proof Brewing, located in Tallahassee, Florida, to celebrate one of the biggest rivalries in the the state of Florida, the annual Hurricanes/Seminole Game.
After receiving more than 600 name submissions, Conner Prairie and Sun King Brewing Company announce “Ichabrewed Crane” as the official name of the Headless Horseman Festival brew.
The team at Mussetter Distributing, Sacramento’s “go-to” craft beer and cider distributor, proudly announce their long-awaited partnership with Altamont Beer Works, based in Livermore, Ca.
Creature Comforts Brewing Company is set to release its next limited offering from its wood cellar, River Ridge Black, this Fall. The beer will be available in 750-mL bottles from the brewery’s tasting room October 13.
Battle Road Brewing Company is excited to partner with Patriot Place to debut the first-ever pop-up concept at the popular outdoor marketplace in Foxboro, featuring a new taproom where guests can enjoy locally-made craft beers.
The craft brewing industry has reached its “most competitive moment,” but that’s not necessarily “a bad thing,” Dogfish Head co-founder Sam Calagione said during a “state of the industry” panel discussion at the final Brew Talks meetup of 2018. Calagione, along with Revolution Brewing chief commercial officer Donn Bichsel and Canarchy Brewery Collective president and COO Matt Fraser, explained to more than 150 beer industry professionals how they’re navigating through the so-called “noise” in the space.
For 23 years music has played a huge role in the creative and artistic direction of the off-centered beers brewed atDogfish Head, so it’s no surprise that its latest and greatest limited beer release, The Best Ever Dark Munich Beer Out Of Milton (5% ABV), was inspired by the song The Best Ever Death Metal Band in Denton, by the super awesome band known as The Mountain Goats.
Funkwerks’ beers are now available across the entire Golden State with its recent addition of Northern California to its distribution footprint. Funkwerks
Firestone Walker’s Barrelworks is back with another wild child—Peachy Bones, a barrel-aged farmhouse saison made with 10,000 pounds of specially selected peaches grown in California’s Central Valley.
Heavy Seas Beer’s fall/winter limited release, Winter Storm, is about to make it’s triumphal return!
Magnolia Brewing Company is delighted to announce that its newest location, Magnolia Dogpatch, is now open. Formerly Smokestack, the redesigned industrial space features a full-service restaurant, brewery, beer garden, and, later, a 5,000-square-foot event space.
Another round of leadership changes is on tap at Anheuser-Busch. Months after splitting its so-called “High End” craft and import division into two separate business units, and after it reorganized its North American sales and marketing teams, Anheuser-Busch today announced that Felipe Szpigel would leave his post as president of the craft business unit for a newly created position within the company.
“We budget to fail,” Monday Night Brewing co-founder Jeff Heck shared during Brewbound’s final Brew Talks meetup of 2018. Joining a panel discussion that examined innovation within the craft space, Heck along with The Bruery founder Patrick Rue and Calicraft Brewing founder Blaine Landberg, gave more than 150 beer industry professionals a peek into their individual innovation strategies, which includes both success and failures.
