Craft beer industry news.
Once again in 2015, Cinco de Mayo falls on an awful day for celebrating this U.S. honored tradition: a Tuesday. If you thought last years’Monday fiesta wasn’t optimal, you don’t want to let Tuesday happen to you this year.
The Scottish brewing outfit BrewDog operates branded beer bars all over the world, ships beer to more than 50 countries, and even has its own American television show. Despite their success, company co-founders (and hosts of the popular “Brew Dogs” show) James Watt and Martin Dickie will tell you that they are representative not of esteemed entrepreneurs that came before them, but rather the brash youth that constantly seeks disruption. They’re punks.
HOTLIPS Soda, in partnership with Backwoods Brewing Company, is releasing the second in its series of collaborative brews. Debuting on Thursday, April 23rd, the limited edition Totally Radler is a crisp blend of Backwoods’ Pale Ale and HOTLIPS Lemon Soda.
New Belgium Brewing is pushing farther east. The Colorado-based craft brewery today announced it would expand distribution to Pennsylvania, signing agreements with a mixed group of Anheuser-Busch and MillerCoors wholesalers alike. “Pennsylvania has been on the horizon for a while now and we are thrilled to secure our distributing partners and hit the ground running this fall,” New Belgium Brewing’s East Coast Division Sales Director, Rich Rush said in a press statement.
Mims Distributing Company, a wholesale beverage distributor in North Carolina, has announced the addition of Coronado Brewing Company to its lineup of brewing partners. The San Diego-based brewer offers beer lovers 14 award-winning ales including Islander IPA, Orange Avenue Wit and Mermaid’s Red.
Victory Brewing today announced the opening of its second brewpub in the Philadelphia area, a 7-barrel brewery and restaurant that seats 220 in more than 8,000 sq. ft. of space. Dubbed Victory at Magnolia, the brewpub in Kennett Square, Pa. will serve a rotating lineup of both site-specific and signature Victory beers brewed on-premise.
Great South Bay Brewery officially brings back, by popular demand, their exclusive Marauder Bourbon Barrel-Aged Scotch Ale for a limited time.
Widmer Brothers Brewing today announced the last two beers in the 30 Beers for 30 Years Series: Kill Devil Brown Ale, which represents the year 2012, and Massive Upheaval IPA, representing 2013 in the brewery’s 30-year history. The two beers mark the conclusion of the ambitious year-long small batch series.
In fashion true to the collaborative reputation of the craft beer industry, two Boston-area beer companies are working together to jointly expand their operations. A new deal between Cambridge Brewing Co. (Cambridge, Mass.) and Mystic Brewery (Chelsea, Mass.) will see equipment trade hands in exchange for production assistance.
Surf Brewery, a small commercial craft brewery, open since 2011, with an onsite tasting room and homebrew shop, announced that they are releasing the second in their Seasonal American Wheat series for 2015, called Wahine™, and named after the term used for a surf chick. Certainly not a ‘chick’ beer, Strawberry Wahine™ Wheat Ale has a slight fruity flavor in a refreshing lighter beer at 5% ABV, 16 IBU and 4.5 SRM.
After the harshest winter since, well, last winter, Two Roads is happy to announce that three beers meant for spring and summer are returning to accompany the long awaited warming temperatures.
B Lab has named New Belgium Brewing to its fourth annual ‘B Corp Best for the Environment’ list for creating the most positive overall environmental impact. The B Corp ‘Best for the Environment’ list honors hundreds of businesses that earned an environmental impact score in the top 10 percent of all Certified B Corporations on the B Impact Assessment, a rigorous and comprehensive assessment of a company’s impact on its workers, community, and the environment.
Avery Brewing has one of the oldest craft beer barrel-aging programs in the country. Over the past decade, they have created a wide variety of innovative projects including beers aged in rum barrels, beers aged in Madeira barrels, and what they call “beer-grape hybrids” in which a portion of the fermentables are wine grapes. Since moving into their new brewery earlier this year, Avery’s brewers now have the capacity to experiment with these projects at the level they’ve always dreamed of, and they’re thrilled to be creating enough barrel-aged beers that sour beer fans across the country can finally get a taste.
Featuring the best local craft beers and one of the widest selections of brews from around the globe, World of Beer Franchising, Inc., (WOB) is opening its third tavern in New York’s Chelsea neighborhood this spring at 320 8th Avenue, New York, NY. WOB offers guests over 500 bottles and 50 rotating taps inviting guests into a journey to discover the best in local and international beers. The rapidly expanding tavern franchise currently operates nearly 70 taverns in 20 states. This tavern will employ about 60 people.
