The battle over shelf space in the beer industry is about to heat up with the entrance of a new brand to the refrigerators at 7-Eleven. And it's the nearly 6,000-strong convenience store chain that is making the private label brew, called "Game Day." While big brewers like Anheuser-Busch InBev can usually muscle their way… Read more »
What do you get when you cram 3,400 brewers, wannabe brewers, beer distributors, retailers, associated professionals and a Bavarian hop queen into a downtown Chicago hotel with unlimited refill privileges? You get one memorable party. The 2010 Craft Brewers Conference, which unfolded at the end of last week at the Sheraton Chicago Hotel & Towers, was… Read more »
The Green Bay, Wis., Harley Owners Group hosted its annual Fest of Ale March 26 to benefit the Muscular Dystrophy Association, and the festival gave me a chance to catch up on the Sierra Nevada Brewing Co. To say that Sierra Nevada is one of the most influential craft brewers in the United States is… Read more »
"Beer he drank — seven goblets. His spirit was loosened. He became hilarious. His heart was glad and his face shown." — Epic of Gilgamesh, 3000 B.C. Beer: Gubna Imperial IPAMade by: Oskar Blues Brewery; Longmont, Colo. Oskar Blues Brewery originated in 1997 as a restaurant in Lyon, a tiny town resting at the base… Read more »
Boston – Samuel Adams is proud to announce that New Hampshire resident Michael Robinson's Old Ben Ale and New Mexico resident Ben Miller's Mile High Barley Wine are hitting the shelves nationwide after besting more than 1,300 entries and being chosen as the winning homebrews in the 2009 Samuel Adams LongShot American Homebrew Contest. Samuel… Read more »
03.17.10 Dock Street Brewing Company, one of the nation's oldest and most respected breweries is pleased to debut the return of its Cream Ale, a paramour from the past. The Dock Street Cream Ale's tasteful simplicity scored Dock Street the Silver Medal at the Great American Beer Fest in 1992. To put a blazing end… Read more »
Fort Collins, CO. – On May 1st, 2010, Odell Brewing Company will begin distributing in the state of Minnesota. The brewery has partnered with Original Gravity, a central group of locally owned and operated distributors that are passionate about craft beer. The Original Gravity partners include Capital Beverage, Thorpe Distributing Company, and College City Beverage…. Read more »
CHICAGO (AdAge.com) — MillerCoors' new "craft" beer is so small that it can talk to its drinkers individually. Colorado Native Lager, which launches this week, comes from the No. 2 U.S. brewer's A.C. Golden Brewing Co. unit, which brews craft-style beers in small quantities and markets them exclusively through digital and word-of-mouth channels. The marketer… Read more »
STOWE, Vermont (March 31, 2010): Culminating more than a decade of planning, Johannes von Trapp and The Trapp Family Lodge are proud to announce the launch of Trapp Lager and Trapp Microbrewery. This new endeavor continues in the spirit of the lodge, established more than fifty years ago by Maria von Trapp, matriarch of the… Read more »
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Glissade is a fantastic bock! Drink nine of them at a time.
Odell Brewing Company’s fantastic new line!.
