Oskar Blues Brewery has announced the release of Can-O-Bliss Hazy IPA, the newest blissful creation in the Can-O-Bliss IPA Series. Can-O-Bliss Hazy IPA will be distributed nationally on draft and in 6-packs and 12-packs of 12 oz. cans.

After operating for nearly a year without a CEO, the Canarchy Craft Brewery Collective has appointed long-time beer executive Tony Short to its top leadership post. The Fireman Capital-backed brewery consortium — whose brands include Oskar Blues, Cigar City, Deep Ellum, Perrin Brewing, Three Weavers, and Utah Brewers Cooperative (Wasatch and Squatters) — had been without a chief executive since last May, when David Pillsbury exited the company after about six months on the job. At the time, Canarchy promoted chief operating officer Matt Fraser to the role of president.

Oskar Blues Brewery kicks off their new Steep Coast Mountain IPA Series with Steep Coast Strata Double IPA. The series spotlights one hop varietal at a time, focusing on cutting-edge hops added in hefty heaps (nearly six pounds of hops per barrel) to each given brew.

JAHvanilla Barrel-Aged Ten FIDY Imperial Stout is blazing into Oskar Blues Brewery taproom locations on 4/20. Taprooms will host release parties with live music, 4/20 festivities and no limits on purchases of JAHvanilla cans. JAHvanilla will be available in 19.2 oz. stovepipe cans and on draft in Longmont, Colorado, Boulder, Colorado and Brevard, North Carolina. 

After growing dollar sales 14.8 percent last year, the Canarchy Craft Brewery Collective’s double-digit growth trends are continuing in early 2019. Off-premise dollar sales of products from the Fireman Capital-backed brewery consortium — whose brands include Oskar Blues, Cigar City, Deep Ellum, Perrin Brewing, Three Weavers, and Utah Brewers Cooperative (Wasatch and Squatters) — are up more than 29 percent through February 24, according to IRI’s multi-outlet and convenience store channel.

San Francisco throws down a sudsy celebration during Beer Week, Feb. 1-10, during which CANarchy Craft Brewery Collective members Three Weavers Brewing Company, Cigar City Brewing and Oskar Blues Brewery, alongside the Can’d Aid Foundation, will appear at interactive craft beer-centric events all over town.

Passport to Iron City transports visitors directly into the retro-futuristic world of Alita: Battle Angel, the upcoming 20th Century Fox film by Robert Rodriguez, James Cameron and Jon Landau, in advance of its Feb. 14 opening. Guests can explore the movie’s Iron City, which has been recreated down to the last detail by the film’s production designers.

Oskar Blues Brewery is introducing a fresh new line-up of rotating IPAs with the Can-O-Bliss IPA Series. Can-O-Bliss Tropical IPA has now launched in 12 oz. cans, to be celebrated with kick-off parties in Oskar Blues Brewery taprooms on Jan. 26. Can-O-Bliss Hazy IPA and Citrus IPA will follow throughout the year.

Oskar Blues Brewery and Cigar City Brewing are stoked to announce the release of their innovative new collaboration beer, Bamburana. The imperial stout, brewed with figs and dates, is double barrel-aged – in both whiskey and brandy barrels – and aged once more in tanks with Amburana wood spirals.

Craft beer maker Oskar Blues is expanding into the hard seltzer space. The Longmont, Colorado-headquartered beer company, which is part of the Canarchy Craft Brewery Collective, is planning a nationwide launch of a new hard seltzer brand in early 2019.

The Canarchy Craft Brewery Collective today announced plans to open a brewpub — in Asheville, about 30 miles north of Oskar Blues’ production facility in Brevard. Dubbed “The Canarchy Collaboratory,” the new outpost will occupy the soon-to-close Lexington Avenue Brewery (LAB) space.

Oskar Blues Brewery’s Barrel-Aged Ten FIDY Imperial Stout is back in 2018 and ready for national distribution on draft and in 19.2oz stovepipe cans. BA Ten FIDY season begins November 3 with taproom events in Boulder and Longmont, CO, and Brevard, NC.

The craft brewing industry has reached its “most competitive moment,” but that’s not necessarily “a bad thing,” Dogfish Head co-founder Sam Calagione said during a “state of the industry” panel discussion at the final Brew Talks meetup of 2018. Calagione, along with Revolution Brewing chief commercial officer Donn Bichsel and Canarchy Brewery Collective president and COO Matt Fraser, explained to more than 150 beer industry professionals how they’re navigating through the so-called “noise” in the space.