Lyft, the fastest growing rideshare company in the U.S., and Ballast Point Brewing Company, one of the nation’s leading craft breweries, have teamed up to present Football Sundays. Now through February 4, Lyft is offering 20 percent off up to four rides to and from all California Ballast Point locations every Sunday, from 9 a.m. to 10 p.m. at the tasting rooms in Miramar, Scripps Ranch, Little Italy, Home Brew Mart, Long Beach and Temecula.
In an effort to reignite its 2012 fight with “big beer,” the Brewers Association — a national trade group representing the interests of America’s small and independent brewers – today unveiled a faux crowdfunding campaign that aims to “buy” the world’s largest beer company, Anheuser-Busch InBev, for $213 billion. The crowdfunding campaign, as well as the $10, $50, $100 and $1,000 pledges aren’t real, but the intent of the media offensive is.
The Midwest’s most visited Orchard and Cider Mill turned hard cider company, is expanding its footprint yet again. Blake’s Hard Cider Co., located on an 800-acre farm an hour north of Detroit, has announced the launch of its 13th state – Alabama.
Shmaltz Brewing’s latest collaboration beer is ready to rock music fans and beer lovers alike as they team up with Vermont based radio station 102.7 WEQX for the brewing of Independent Ale® (5.18% ABV). Honoring the tradition of crankin’ up the radio, celebrating local culture, and livin’ life overflowing with independence, Independent Ale® is a light, crushable ale with a hint of wheat in the malt bill and a blast of Pacific Northwest hops on the nose.
Brewery Ommegang is proud to release their 20th Anniversary Ale, a luxurious Belgian-style dark ale aged for more than five months in bourbon barrels. Brewery Ommegang was founded in 1997 on a 140-acre former hop farm with a simple goal in mind – brew beautiful, imaginative Belgian-style ales blended with a touch of American innovation.
Green Acre Farms, Inc. of Toppenish, WA and Glacier Hops Ranch, Inc. of Whitefish, MT jointly announced the collaborative agreement, under which the essential hop oils product produced using fresh hops, will be globally marketed and distributed under the Hopzoil™ brand.
Eagle Rock Brewery, (ERB) is gearing up to release the fourth beer in it’s seasonal Day Trip Series of canned beers brewed and packaged with the intention to pack ‘em in and pack ‘em out. Their new gose with prickly pear, Salvation Mountain, will be released in the taproom on Tuesday, October 24, 2017, on draft and in 16 oz. 4-packs of cans.
Ferment.Drink.Repeat marked another milestone Friday, Oct. 13 when the brewery released “Stout of Body Experience”, an 11% ABV Imperial Belgian Stout aged in Oro en Paz Cabernet barrels. The beer served as the first-ever bottle release for the brewery, which opened doors in the summer of 2016.
Marin Brewing’s Brewmaster Arne Johnson often finds inspiration in the most fascinating places, including the news. Johnson’s love of current events and politics recently lead him to the nearest dictionary where he fell in love with a new word, and that word is the name for his next great beer.
