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Russian River Brewing Company

Santa Rosa · CA

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Press Clips: Russian River Chooses Second Location; Pabst Sues MillerCoors

Russian River Chooses Site for Second Location; Pabst Sues MillerCoors Over Eden Plant Closure; Former MillerCoors Executive Pleads Guilty to Embezzlement; MegaBrew Moves Forward in Australia, Stalled in South Africa; Molson Coors’ Carling Becomes Official Beer Parner of England’s Premier League; Craft Breweries on the Campaign Trail

Last Call: A-B Divests; Small Brewers Expand

A-B to Divest SABMiller’s CR Snow Stake; New Locations on the Way for Some Established Craft Brewers; Sand Creek Brewing Acquires 2 Smaller Brands; New Belgium Celebrates 25th Anniversary with “Riff-Pack”…

Elite Brands Donates Pliny the Younger Profits

This year’s allotment of Pliny the Younger has come and gone in Colorado but the financial contributions made by the craft beer community will leave a lasting impact on local breast cancer support center, Sense of Security.

Video: Brewers Discuss Market Segmentation at 2014 GABF

Last week, we traveled to the Great American Beer Festival in Denver, Colo. to ask attendees how market segmentation was impacting the retail landscape. Many noted that growing interest in small local brands is making it tougher to compete while others were more optimistic about the potential growth of shelf space. Hear those responses in our latest video segment.

Russian River Taps Firestone Walker for Pliny Production

Attention beer geeks! Your next pint of Pliny could be coming from Paso Robles. Russian River Brewing, the award-winning craft brewery from Santa Rosa, Calif. today announced that it will produce a limited amount of its acclaimed flagship, Pliny the Elder, under an exclusive contract partnership with Firestone Walker Brewing.

How Pliny the Elder Became the Best Beer in America

In Naturalis Historia, Vol. VI CB, Pliny the Elder wrote, “In these matters, the only certainty is that nothing is certain.” How ironic then, that Russian River Brewing Co.’s famed imperial IPA, named after the abovementioned Roman philosopher, has by all accounts been certainty in a bottle for several years.