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Ninkasi Announces New Seasonal W├╝nderbier

EUGENE, Ore.—With warmer months and endless adventures ahead, Ninkasi Brewing Company aims to help craft beer admirers appreciate summer even more with the release of W├╝nderbier to its Seasonal Release Series. A K├Âlsch-Style ale, W├╝nderbier is perfect for summertime enjoyment, offering a beer that is crisp, sweet and luminous.

Ninkasi Releases Maiden the Shade

EUGENE, Ore.—Nothing marks the return of summer like the release of Maiden the Shade from Ninkasi Brewing Company’s Special Release Series.

Ninkasi to Expand Distribution Throughout Nevada

Ninkasi Brewing will expand distribution throughout Nevada beginning next month, per new agreements with five distributorships in the state. The brewery, which is based in Eugene, Ore., has tapped Blach Distributing Co., Capital Beverages, Nevada Beverage Company, Morrey Distributing Co., and Valley Distributors to stock the state’s shelves and tap lines with its lineup of… Read more »

Ninkasi Brewing to Release Lux German-Style Helles Lager

EUGENE, Ore.— Following the release of its gold medal-winning Pravda Bohemian-Style Pilsner, Ninkasi Brewing Company announces the release of Lux, a German-Style Helles Lager available throughout all of its distribution areas, May through August.

CBC 2014: Managing a Seasonal Portfolio

As seasons change, so too do the leaves of trees, providing shade as canopies of green in the summer before evolving into bouquets of yellow and orange in autumn, only to wither away entirely in the cold of winter. Then, they bloom again in spring. Craft brewers might find it more poetic to note the… Read more »

Ninkasi Now Operational In Second Brewery

Brewery celebrated the culmination of three years of planning and construction when it brewed its first batch of beer in its new facility in Eugene, Ore. last week. The new brewery — and 90-barrel brewing system therein — initially adds 70,000 barrels to the company’s current capacity with room to grow ultimately to 250,000 barrels… Read more »

Ninkasi Brewing Co. to Release Spring Reign

EUGENE, Ore.—Despite what Punxsutawney Phil says, Ninkasi Brewing Company is calling for an early spring with the return of its Seasonal Release Series beer, Spring Reign.

Ninkasi Brewing Co. Named Good Food Awards Winner

EUGENE, Ore.—In an award ceremony hosted last night at the Palace of Fine Arts Theater in San Francisco, Calif., Ninkasi Brewing Company’s co-founder and founding brewer, Jamie Floyd, was honored as the brewery received a Good Food Awards medal for its Believer Double Red Ale.

Ninkasi Brewing Co. Recaps 2013 Donation Efforts

EUGENE, Ore.—Jan. 16, 2014—Established in 2012, Ninkasi Brewing Company’s Beer is Love program, has enabled the brewery to offer donations and support to non-profits and community organizations throughout all the states it distributes. In its first year, the program worked with more than 600 organizations throughout these six states.

Ninkasi Parts Ways with National Sales Director

After more than four years of spearheading sales for fast-growing the Eugene, Ore. craft brewery Ninkasi Brewing, Marty Ochs is out as the company’s national sales director. “I gave Ninkasi everything I had and I absolutely lived and breathed the brand,” he told Brewbound. “This is the nature of the industry and this is what… Read more »

Ninkasi Brewing Announces Release of New India Red Ale

EUGENE, OR —Ninkasi Brewing Company announces the release of its Dawn of the Red, an India Red Ale, to store shelves and on-draft January through April 2014. Crafted as part of Ninkasi’s Special Release Series, this beer embodies all aspects of the creative process that goes in to each and every Ninkasi brew — from… Read more »

Ninkasi Brewing Earns Gold at GABF

EUGENE, OR. — Last week, Denver, Colorado hosted the 2013 Great American Beer Festival (GABF), an annual, three-day beer festival and one of the most coveted beer competitions in the brewing industry. Presented by the Brewers Association, GABF is the largest national beer competition that recognizes the most outstanding beers produced in the nation.

Winter Brews from Ninkasi Return

EUGENE, Ore. — Cheers to winter with returning cold-weather favorites from Ninkasi Brewing Company. Inspired by the cold winter months, traditional beer styles, blissful days on the mountain, and even a little heavy metal, Sleigh’r Dark Do├╝ble Alt Ale and Imperiale Imperial Stout are the perfect remedy to rock any winter day.