Craft beer industry news.
Together for one imperial release, we give you 70K and Gnight Ryder! We’ve bottled not one, but TWO big, barrel aged beers and are releasing them on the same day at the same time. The best part? You don’t even need a ticket! May 14 at noon both bottles will be available locally and nationally.
For the past 3 years, Breakside Brewery and Lewis & Clark College have partnered to offer a course in brewing and the business of beer for students interested in the craft beer industry. Sponsored by Lewis & Clark’s Center for Entrepreneurship, the course is instructed by Breakside brewmaster Ben Edmunds and R&D brewer Will Jaquiss.
Craft Brew Alliance, Inc. (“CBA”) (Nasdaq: BREW), a leading craft brewing company, is commemorating Earth Day 2016 with the release of its third Annual Sustainability Report. CBA’s 2015 Annual Sustainability Report highlights the company’s sustainability progress around four key focus areas: water, energy, recycling, and community involvement.
PubWARE released unbreakable Pints and 20-ounce Pub Glasses, a new line from SymGLASS comprised of unbreakable drinkware that looks and feels like real glass, but won’t crack, discolor, haze or cloud like acrylic or polycarbonate alternatives. Designed for both commercial and residential use, Pubware’s Pints and Pub Glasses can withstand the harshest of conditions in pubs, bars and restaurants.
Each spring Harpoon employees celebrating an anniversary (5th, 8th, 12th, etc.) are taken on a weeklong overseas “beer trip.” During these trips, the Harpoon group is taken on special tours of breweries throughout various regions of Europe to explore and enjoy European beer culture. The 2015 Harpoon beer trip to Germany inspired the latest creation for the Harpoon 100 Barrel Series: introducing Harpoon Sticke Alt.
2016 marks the city of Aurora’s 125th anniversary, for which Dry Dock Brewing Company brewed its newest beer, Aurora Ale. It’s an easy-drinking, approachable Blonde Ale brewed with beet sugar to commemorate our home’s heritage as a beet growing region. This beer was brewed with noble hops and fermented with Belgian yeast.
Shares of Boston Beer (SAM) hit a 52-week low today, with stocks plummeting more than 8 percent after the company reported subpar first quarter earnings following yesterday’s market close. As a result, the nation’s second largest craft beer company lowered its expectations for 2016 during a formal earnings call with investors and analysts last evening — reporting sales well below previously projected targets for the first quarter of the year.
Talk about having your finger on the pulse: Anheuser-Busch InBev will wholly acquire one of Italy’s most popular craft breweries, Birra del Borgo. Terms of the transaction were not disclosed and Birra del Borgo founder Leonardo Di Vincenzo will continue to serve as CEO.
ROSEMONT — Reyes Holdings, L.L.C. announced today that its Chicago-area Coca-Cola distributor, Great Lakes Coca-Cola Distribution, L.L.C., has entered into a letter of intent with The Coca-Cola Company to acquire six production facilities in Alsip and Niles, Ill.; Detroit and Grand Rapids, Mich.; Eagan, Minn.; and Milwaukee, Wisc. This move marks Great Lakes’ entry into… Read more »
Copenhagen Beer Celebration, one of the most exciting and respected craft beer tasting events in the world, is coming to Boston September 23 & 24, 2016. Giving beer lovers the chance to experience over 100 rare and beloved craft beers from 50+ breweries from around the globe, this new outdoor beer and music festival will place emphasis on highly sought after and cult favorite beers while shining a spotlight on talented brewers from around the country and overseas.
For the first time ever, New Belgium Brewing is producing its coveted special edition cruiser bikes in the U.S., using Detroit Bikes, a Detroit-based bicycling manufacturer and North America’s largest bicycle producer. Just in time for warmer weather, the bikes are now hitting the streets through New Belgium fundraisers, giveaways and as one-year anniversary gifts to New Belgium co-workers. The partnership has created new manufacturing jobs in Detroit with the company doubling its workforce from 20 to 40 employees.
Mispillion River Brewing will be releasing the 2016 edition of Short ‘N Stout, a bourbon barrel aged stout, in honor of Patrolman Chad E. Spicer, on May 7th. Head Brewer, Ryan Maloney, worked with Spicer’s friends to create a beer that embodied his character. Short ‘N Stout was born from Spicer’s love of tobacco and whiskey
Pabst Brewing is one of the few companies that could put Star Wars’ smoothest space traveler, a nationally acclaimed barbecue pitmaster and hundreds of beer wholesalers in the same room without the entire event feeling like an the illegitimate love child of Comic-Con and South by Southwest. Maybe it helped that the scene was in Milwaukee: that’s where the country’s fifth largest beer supplier hosted, for the first time in about three decades, a rather lavish and impressive national distributor convention.
The iconic Brooklyn Brewery brand is getting a makeover for the first time in 28 years. The company this week announced the launch of a full-scale revamp for its entire line of packaged products.
