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Anheuser-Busch Partners with Olivia Culpo on Holiday Campaign for Stella Artois

With the holidays around the corner, Stella Artois is collaborating with Olivia Culpo to share inspiration for how to shine as a host this season. Known for hosting standout affairs, Stella Artois tapped the fashion icon and foodie to share personal tips for making any holiday gathering – big or small – one to remember. By teaming up with Olivia to share her inspiration for a stellar holiday gathering, Stella Artois hopes to inspire Americans to elevate their holiday festivities from ordinary to extraordinary this year.

Beer Execs Discuss E-Commerce, Cannabis at Beer Marketer’s Insights Seminar

Beer Execs Discuss E-Commerce, Cannabis at Beer Marketer’s Insights Seminar

E-commerce retail sales are approaching $400 billion dollars, but a mere 0.2 percent of beer — or about 3.5 million cases — was purchased online last year, according to Heineken CEO Ronald den Elzen. Den Elzen, presenting to more than 200 beer industry professionals attending yesterday’s Beer Marketer’s Insights seminar in New York City, called the shift away from brick-and-mortar purchases a “retail revolution.” By 2021, den Elzen projected that online beer sales will grow to 2.4 percent, to 53 million cases.

Stone Distribution Rights Sold to Sheehan in Massachusetts

Stone Distribution Rights Sold to Sheehan in Massachusetts

For the second time in just five months, Massachusetts’ Atlantic Beverage Distributors has sold the distribution rights to a prominent San Diego-based craft brewery. Beginning today, Craft Beer Guild LLC, a subsidiary of Sheehan Family Companies, will distribute Stone Brewing Company products throughout the state.

Melvin Brewing and Teton Gravity Research Collaborate on ‘Pils-gnar’

JACKSON, Wyo. — Melvin Brewing is announcing the newest brew to its lineup – brewed specifically for those that get after it in the mountains – with the Pils-gnar. Collaborating with fellow ski bums, neighbors, and old friends at Teton Gravity Research, Melvin Brewing and TGR are going all in with the first-ever collaboration between these two… Read more »

Garage Brewing Co Releases 4 x 4 Double IPA

Garage Brewing is celebrating a very “hoppy” 4th Anniversary with the release of their Double IPA brewed with 4 malts and 4 hops including Citra, Mosaic, Nugget, and Falconer’s Flight.

Renegade Brewing Sells Stake to Upstart Family Office

Renegade Brewing Sells Stake to Upstart Family Office

Denver’s Renegade Brewing today announced the sale of an undisclosed stake to Silver Fox Partners, a Northeastern family office founded earlier this year by Anne Mulcahy, the former CEO and Chairwoman of the Xerox Corporation. Specific financial terms of the deal, which was finalized last Wednesday, were not disclosed.

Boulder Beer’s Slope Style IPA Available in Cans

Boulder Beer Company, Colorado’s First Craft Brewery, brings back its limited release beer Slope Style Red IPA, now packaged in 12 oz. cans for the first time.

Texas’ Guns & Oil Takes Over Former Payette Brewing Facility in Idaho

Texas’ Guns & Oil Takes Over Former Payette Brewing Facility in Idaho

Texas-based contract brewery Guns & Oil Beer has reached an agreement to take over the former Payette Brewing Co. production facility located about two miles outside of Boise, in Garden City, Idaho. In a conversation with Brewbound, Guns & Oil founder Cary Prewitt said he’s taken out bank loans to finance the $1 million project, including acquiring Payette’s 15-barrel brewhouse. He added that he’s signed a five-year lease on the 11,000 sq. ft. property.

Buskey Cider Cans Tart Cherry Cider

Buskey Cider is rolling out its Tart Cherry Cider in cans on November 11th, the first flavored cans that the cidery has released.