Craft beer industry news.
Svalbard Brewery — the world’s northernmost brewery — has become Cask’s first Norwegian micro-canning craft brewery. Years in the making, Svalbard Brewery is located in the remote town of Longyearbyen (population 2,400) on Spitsbergen Island in Norway’s Svalbard Islands archipelago. The Arctic Ocean islands are home to an estimated 3,500 polar bears, and the brewery is just over 800 miles from the North Pole.
Our amber ale has a malt to hop balance that is nearly even, slightly leaning toward malt. Nutty, light caramel, toasty, and biscuity describes the malt flavors of this easily approachable beer. Low yet perceptible English hop character round out the flavor which ends with a medium dry finish.
At some point, every brand needs a facelift. Even the iconic Harpoon IPA. First introduced in 1993, Harpoon IPA hasn’t changed its look in more than 20 years, except for a few subtle tweaks back in 2009. But with new category entrants challenging the stalwart New England craft brewery’s position on retail shelves, Harpoon executives decided it was time to evolve.
Shmaltz Brewing Company is thrilled to announce the partnership with a new importer for the state of Oklahoma, Craft & Barrel LLC. The latest addition to Shmaltz’s team of importers and distributors across the country, Craft & Barrel LLC enhances the regional retail presence and draft availability of the award-winning craft beer line: He’brew — The Chosen Beer®. Shmaltz’s distribution growth throughout the United States comes on the heels of opening a new 20,000 square feet brewing facility in Clifton Park, NY. Shmaltz’s brews are now available in 35 states, and the brewery has increased its staff to 30 employees to oversee its latest capacity expansion from 20K barrels to 35K barrels per year.
Boston Beer Company today reported third quarter depletions growth of six percent and net revenues of $293.1 million, a nine percent increase over the same period last year. During an earnings call, the company credited the success of its Traveler Beer, Coney Island Root Beer and Twisted Tea brands — which offset declines from its flagship Samuel Adams brand — as the primary growth drivers in the quarter.
Meet Braxton Brewing: a family-run brewery founded in Covington, KY by two brothers, Evan and Jacob Rouse, their father, Greg Rouse, and one insanely experienced brewmaster, Richard Dubé. Brewbound followed the Braxton team to the Pacific Northwest, to document, on film, what it’s like for a group of scrappy startup brewers to be granted an all-access pass inside one of the country’s largest craft beer outfits. In episode 001 of Brewbound’s new documentary series, viewers will be introduced to the Braxton crew and get a taste of the intense, three-day learning experience awarded to winners of the Startup Brewery Challenge.
Sheehan Family Companies announced that they have entered into a distribution partnership with Yonkers Brewing Company. The partnership will enable this Yonkers-based brewery to access more of their local market and introduce their lineup of accessible and easy- drinking craft beers to a wider range of consumers across New York City, Long Island, the Hudson Valley and the Capital Region
For the first time, Founders Brewing Co. will release its Scotch ale, Dirty Bastard, in a 12-pack of 12 oz. cans, labeled as the “Dirty Dozen”. Dirty Bastard is one of the original beers made by Founders Brewing Co., saving them from the brink of bankruptcy and putting the brewery at the forefront of the extreme beer movement. The popular year-round Scotch ale is dark ruby in color and brewed with seven varieties of imported malts. It is complex in its finish, with hints of smoke and peat, paired with a malty richness and a right hook of hop power to give it the bad attitude worthy of its name.
New Belgium Brewing’s Tour de Fat, a traveling tour of bicycle advocacy and hilarity in charity, raised $647,668 for local nonprofits this season, totaling more than $4 million in its 16-year stretch. This year’s total is up more than $20,000 from last year. The event is free, but all proceeds from beer and merchandise sales and donations in each city go to local nonprofit organizations focused on making communities a better place to ride a bike.
Breakside Brewery is happy to announce the return of last years popular fall and early winter seasonal ‘La Tormenta’ a dry-hopped sour ale. Available now in Oregon and beginning this week in Washington, La Tormenta is packaged in beautiful watercolor label art on 22oz bottles as well as by draft. There will be limited availability of La Tormenta in British Columbia, Hawaii, and the Denver, Colorado area.
AlaBev expands the limits of great taste by bringing the number one selling sour beer in the country, Jolly Pumpkin, to retailers, restaurants and bars across the state. The Michigan brewery partners with distributor, AlaBev, to bring Jolly Pumpkin Bam, Bam Noir, Blanca and Oro to shelves on Monday, Nov. 2.
The Marin Brewing Company and Moylan’s Brewery are pleased to announce two promotions from within the company. Curtis Cassidy now serves as the of Director of Sales, after an 18 year stint as National Sales Manager. Joining Cassidy in sales will be the newly promoted Allison Spillane who will report to Cassidy in her new position as sale representative for Marin Brewing, Moylan’s and Stillwater Distillery. Spillane will serve as the company’s Northern California sales representative.
For the next few months, there will be plenty of snow-filled woods by which to stop and ponder in Ommegang’s Upstate New York, Cooperstown home. It only seemed fitting therefore to seek inspiration from Robert Frost’s famous poem “Stopping by Woods on a Snowy Evening” when name-storming monikers for the brewery’s new winter-warmer seasonal. Lovely, Dark and Deep, an oatmeal stout, is set to reach retail in early November.
In honor of Halloween and the latest season of “The Walking Dead,” Mispillion River Brewing has released zombie versions of its cans. With the help of Connecticut artist, Tom Ryans, the brewery converted the images on their beers Reach Around IPA, Space Otter Pale Ale, Black Tie Black IPA, and Holy Crap! Imperial Red Ale to zombies.
