Craft beer industry news.
California Wild Ales, San Diego’s Sour House, and the city’s only all-barrel-aged American sour brewery, has announced its first-ever barrel-aged dark sour “Black is Beautiful” collaboration together with Weathered Souls Brewing Co., based in San Antonio, Texas, benefitting Color of Change, the nation’s largest online racial justice organization.
The year 2020 hasn’t exactly been a beach, but this Coconut IPA will have you feeling like you’re back relaxing on sunny shores.
Great Lakes Brewing Company (GLBC) is pleased to announce that Chris Brown has joined the GLBC team as Vice President, Sales.
Danny Brager, the long-time leader of market research firm Nielsen’s beverage alcohol practice, is exiting the company to pursue other opportunities after nearly 40 years.
Combining new school haze with a retro flavor profile, Game Night India pale ale (IPA) is the newest year-round release from Atlanta’s Second Self Beer Company.
It’s a fruit-packed summer at Lone Tree Brewing Company, where visitors can now find cans of Golden Berry Ale, the latest in Lone Tree’s rotating small-batch can series. Six-packs of Golden Berry Ale are also available across Colorado and Kansas in select craft establishments.
The bright and bountiful berries of Alaska inspired a pairing with the smooth vanilla creaminess of a milkshake IPA for Alaskan Brewing’s newest Pilot Series offering, Berry Milkshake IPA.
The effects of the COVID-19 pandemic were easy to see in Craft Brew Alliance’s latest earnings report. Shipments of CBA products during the three-month period ending June 30 — in the thick of the pandemic and its shut down of on-premise establishments — declined 10.2%, to 206,900 barrels, down from 230,500 barrels in Q2 2019.
During the Q&A portion of the call, Monster CEO Rodney Sacks was noncommittal when asked about the company’s potential interest in launching an alcoholic beverage product, specifically a hard seltzer.
After some tense weeks of picketing and negotiating, Philadelphia-based Dock Street Brewing announced it would change its service model so that front-of-house employees at its West Philadelphia location would be paid regular hourly wages, rather than relying on tips.
The National Beer Wholesalers Association’s Annual Convention won’t be taking place in-person in Orlando, Florida, this October after all. The largest meeting of beer wholesalers in the country will instead go virtual from October 4-7. The NBWA was set to host its Annual Convention in Orlando in early October, however, the COVID-19 pandemic has rendered those plans unfeasible.
On this week’s Brewbound Frontlines, Fresh Fest co-founder Day Bracey joins to discuss the upcoming beer festival showcasing Black-owned breweries, and industry professionals share taproom staff management best practices.
In July 2020 Iain Gordon and Vanessa Gleiser announced that they will be opening the first seltzer taproom in Richmond, Virginia. The seltzer business will open its doors in August 2021 and will feature handcrafted hard seltzers in a variety of flavors.
Woburn’s Lord Hobo Brewing Company is excited to announce the opening of its expanded taproom and, to celebrate the occasion, they are launching two new ways to enjoy their beer-for-all-occasions, Freebird Golden Ale.
