For the first time in eight years, Harpoon Brewery has expanded its distribution footprint. The Boston-based craft brewery announced Monday a pair of deals to put its beer into Minnesota and Wisconsin.

In the same week that Anheuser-Busch InBev finalized its takeover of SABMiller, the world’s biggest beer company also announced the purchase of two major U.S. homebrew ingredient and supply companies.

Anheuser-Busch InBev and SABMiller are officially drinking buddies. On Monday, A-B InBev closed the year-long merger saga, acquiring its one-time rival for $100 billion.

Cult beer maker Russian River Brewing will begin building its final brewery in Sonoma County sometime next year, co-founder Vinnie Cilurzo told Brewbound during last week’s Great American Beer Festival.

The brothers behind popular Massachusetts craft brewery Jack’s Abby are launching a new beer venture, Springdale Barrel Room, which they claim will be the largest barrel-aging program in New England.

Denver’s River North District is developing so fast that it pushed out one of its pioneers. Matthew and Jessica Hess’ River North Brewery was forced to move out of its namesake neighborhood when the property’s landlord decided to transform the space into luxury condos and apartments.

The shakeout of the MegaBrew deal will begin to be felt in Eastern Europe.

Behind last year’s $1 billion bet on Ballast Point, Constellation Brands Inc.’s big foray into the craft beer marketplace is beginning to pay off.

Georgia may not technically allow production breweries to sell beer directly to consumers, but if and when it does, Monday Night Brewing will be ready: It’s planning to open a large tasting room as part of a $2 million satellite brewery expansion.

Christian Ettinger thought he was being pranked. “It was too good to be true,” Ettinger, the brewmaster and founder of Portland, Oregon’s Hopworks Urban Brewery, said of a June offer to collaborate with Patagonia Provisions, the sustainable food branch of the popular outdoor clothing company. The pitch? Brew the first commercially-available craft beer using Kernza,… Read more »

Brew Hub is dipping a toe into international waters. The Central Florida contract brewer today announced plans to begin producing beer for South Korea’s The Booth Brewing Co.

MassDevelopment — a public-private economic development agency that works to stimulate economic growth across Massachusetts — has issued a $7.7 million tax-exempt bond on behalf of Landreau Realty, LLC, a real estate entity for Tree House Brewing, to help the company build its new 150,000 barrel brewing facility.