Anheuser-Busch InBev today announced a number of changes to its commercial leadership roster, most notably that it would replace current vice president of U.S. sales, David Almeida. In separate notes sent to both employees and wholesalers, Zone North America president João Castro Neves said Almeida, who had served as the company’s VP of U.S. sales since 2011, would be named to a “global special project” and report directly to CEO Carlos Brito.
Sam Calagione’s relentless attempts to brand Dogfish Head beyond beer have put the company in front of millions of new craft beer consumers and helped make the company into one of the most successful craft breweries in the U.S. His latest, a collaborative web series with First We Feast, a food culture site owned by New York-based Complex Media, features Calagione creating beers with famous athletes, musicians and chefs.
San Diego, Calif. — After more than a year of intense design and construction, AleSmith Brewing Company has opened the doors to its brand new, 25,000-square-foot tasting room at 9990 AleSmith Court in San Diego’s Miramar community. This highly anticipated project comes at the tail-end of the award-winning craft brewery’s twentieth year in business. The largest… Read more »
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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.
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.
Ninkasi Brewing is expanding its reach in the east once again. The rapidly growing craft brewery, based in Eugene, Ore., today announced it would add permanent distribution throughout the Philadelphia area next month. In a press statement, the company said it had signed agreements with Gretz Beer Co. and Penn Beer.
Upland Brewing will invest $4 million to expand its sour production capabilities, the Indiana-based craft brewery announced today. Using a combination of bank debt, cash flow and equity financing, the company acquired the property adjacent to its original brewpub last year, and recently began initial phases of demolition and construction on a new cellaring facility.
In what can only be deemed a search for the country’s sandiest beach, Maui Brewing today announced plans to expand distribution to Florida, signing with Cavalier Distributing for coverage throughout the state.
MillerCoors has tabled plans to release a new summer seasonal ale after some wholesalers — including those on the company’s distributor council — criticized the new introduction. The company will instead release “Blue Moon Belgian Table Belgian Pils,” it told distributors today.
Remember the class action lawsuit from earlier this year that alleged MillerCoors was deceptively brewing and marketing its Blue Moon Brewing line of craft products? Well, on Wednesday, a California judge all but dismissed the suit, saying that the company’s use of the Blue Moon Brewing Company name on its label “shielded it from liability under California’s consumer protection laws under safe harbor doctrine,” according to Law360.
It’s been nearly 16 years since Boulevard Brewing altered its appearance, but in an effort to appeal to more consumers in more places, the Kansas City-based brewery is now beginning to test new packaging designs. Over the next several months, the company plans to introduce new labels, designed in partnership with Helms Workshop, a Texas-based strategic design studio that has worked with beverage clients like Austin Beerworks, Spencer Trappist Brewery and Southern Comfort.
Oskar Blues is now nearly national. The Colorado-headquartered craft brewery today announced expanded distribution in Mississippi and Utah, bringing the total number of states where it sells beer to 46. The company has signed with four distributors in Mississippi — Clark Beverage Group, Stokes Distributing Company, Capital City Beverage and FEB Distributing — and M&M Distributing (part of Admiral Beverage) in Utah.
