After emerging victorious from our inaugural Startup Brewery Challenge last July, Logsdon Farmhouse Ales is finally set to rollout its collaborative brew with Widmer Brothers Brewing. As part of last year’s Brew Talks West Coast Tour, Brewbound invited four breweries to compete for the chance to create a new beer with the brewers at Widmer… Read more »
Add Founders Brewing to the growing list of craft breweries now producing more than 100,000 barrels annually (there’s 30 of them). The Grand Rapids, Mich,-based brewery cranked out 111,000 barrels in 2013, a 63-percent uptick from the 70,800 it produced in 2012. In fact, over the last six years, Founders has averaged a compounded annual… Read more »
Manhattan Beer Distributors, one of the country’s largest beer wholesalers, is taking a harder look at the cider category. The Bronx, NY-based wholesaler confirmed today that it has acquired the distribution rights to Woodchuck Hard Cider, a wholly-owned subsidiary of the C&C Group which also produces and markets the Magners, Hornsby’s and Blackthorn cider brands… Read more »
In a powerful speech, Andy Thomas, the newly-minted CEO of Craft Brew Alliance (CBA), used this year’s annual Beer Summit as a platform to fire specific and cutting remarks at the Brewers Association, the chief representative of the craft brewing movement and one that has tried to classify his products and others as something less… Read more »
Sierra Nevada Brewing had planned to brew one million barrels in 2013. The company had also planned to open its new brewery in North Carolina and grow production more than four percent. It’ll have to wait a little while. Sierra Nevada sold 985,000 barrels in 2013 — just shy of the one-million it was hoping… Read more »
It’s been more than a year since Avery Brewing purchased the 5.6 acre parcel of land in Boulder, Colo. that will soon be its new home and on Tuesday, the company announced that construction of a new brewery has finally begun. By this time next year, the 20-year-old craft beer company will finally be able… Read more »
A recent push towards lower alcohol craft beer offerings has prompted Alchemy & Science — the craft brew incubation project and wholly-owned subsidiary of Boston Beer Company — to rebrand its Just Beer Project flagship. Beginning this week, A&S will relaunch “Just IPA” as “Anytime IPA.”
Due to increased distribution of its draft beer, Milwaukee’s Lakefront Brewery production grew more than 20 percent, to 40,496 barrels in 2013. “Our Wisconsin distributors had an incredible year with on-premise draft sales,” Chris Johnson, the brewery’s marketing director said in a press release. “I was pleased with our out-of-state distributors’ enthusiasm when we gave… Read more »
Mike Magoulas, the former MillerCoors executive who was appointed Boulevard Brewing’s CEO in September 2012, has resigned after less than 15 months with the company. Magoulas’ last official day with Boulevard was December 31, the same day Duvel Moortgat closed on its acquisition of the Kansas City-based company.
Dogfish Head finally eclipsed the 200,000 barrel mark in 2013, a milestone that only 11 other regional brewing companies had achieved the year prior. Led by its “family of IPA offerings” — 60-minute, 75-Minute, 90-minute, 120-minute, Sixty-One, Indian Brown Ale, Aprihop, Burton Baton and Rhizing Bines — Dogfish Head production numbers soared to 202,000 barrels,… Read more »
Yuengling’s planned mid-March rollout in Massachusetts is the most anticipated brewery launch in the last decade — or at least that’s what the Pottsville, Penn.-based company thinks. “Not since Coors or Corona has a brand come along that will have as much impact as Yuengling will in Massachusetts,” Yuengling COO Dave Casinelli told Brewbound.
The Brewers Association (BA) today announced that, by the end of 2013, the number of U.S. breweries reached its highest level since the early 1870s. The BA counted 2,722 brewing facilities in the U.S. last year, and increase of more than 400 versus 2012.
Shipyard Brewing Company today announced it has broken ground on a new, 20-barrel brewery at its Sea Dog Brew Pub in Clearwater, Fla. Citing capacity constraints at the brewery’s headquarters in Portland, Maine, Shipyard founder Fred Forsley told Brewbound last October that extra demand in Florida and southern states necessitated the expansion.
Paul Chibe, who has served as the VP of marketing for Anheuser-Busch InBev since 2011, will resign in February, the company announced. A-B InBev employees and distributors learned of the news yesterday via email. “Paul has led the U.S. marketing business since June 2011, bringing new talent to the organization and strategies for marketing to… Read more »
