Barring a resolution before next week, President Donald Trump’s escalating trade war with China — and increased tariffs on aluminum can sheet — threatens to further impact U.S. beer companies’ bottom lines. On Friday, Trump announced via Twitter plans to increase tariffs on $550 billion of imported Chinese goods over the next two months in retaliation for China saying it would impose $75 billion in tariffs on goods imported from America beginning October 1. And aluminum can producers are bracing for the higher aluminum costs and passing them onto their customers.
Champion Brewing Company has announced the release of Waterboys IPA, the beer brewed with Chris Long, Charlottesville native and retired NFL superstar.
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D.G. Yuengling & Son, Inc., America’s Oldest Brewery, continues to celebrate its milestone 190th anniversary with the debut of a brand new design and packaging for their beloved Oktoberfest beer.
Stormalong Cider, a Massachusetts-based cidery, along with Blue Hills Orchard of Wallingford, CT, has announced a collaboration in launching an unfiltered hard cider as part of Stormalong’s new Farmstand Series.
After recently expanding its wood cellar facility, Creature Comforts Brewing Company will begin offering two beers from the program on a more frequent basis.
The brewers at Samuel Adams announce the return of Sam Adams OctoberFest – the #1 selling fall seasonal beer that has won an unprecedented 125 international awards in its 30-year history.
One brewery from Logan Square, Chicago, IL. One brewery from the hop fields in Yakima, WA. One whiskey from Midleton, Ireland. That’s the intercontinental collaboration Jameson unveiled with the launch of Jameson Caskmates Bale Breaker Limited Edition and Jameson Caskmates Revolution Brewing Limited Edition.
Barefoot Landing is pleased to announce that Crooked Hammock Brewery, a restaurant, brewery, and backyard beer garden, will be enriching the lineup of new experiences at North Myrtle Beach’s only waterway shopping, dining, and entertainment destination.
The deadline for Anheuser-Busch InBev to make a qualifying offer to acquire the remaining stake of Craft Brew Alliance (CBA) came and went today without an offer. The world’s largest beer manufacturer, which already owns 31.3 percent of the smaller Portland, Oregon-headquartered craft beer maker, had until today, August 23, to either make an offer for the remaining stake in the company at a minimum of $24.50 per share (about $328 million) or pay a $20 million fee.
Truly Hard Seltzer-maker Boston Beer Company announced today the nationwide launch of “Truly on Tap,” a new product that the company is calling ”one of the first hard seltzers available on draft” across the country. Boston Beer founder Jim Koch first teased the product, then called “Pure” — a name that competing brand White Claw also announced for a similar product — in January as an alternative for vodka soda drinkers in bars and restaurants.
