Taprooms and direct-to-consumer sales were hot topics during this year’s Craft Brewers Convention in Nashville, Tennessee. Two seminars — “Building Your Brand Through the Tasting Room” and “Defense and Promotion of Tasting Rooms” — focused on the phenomenon that has agitated some retailers and wholesalers, but the topic bled into other conversations throughout the week.

Calagione — along with Brooklyn Brewery VP Dave Duffy, The BWC Company director of analytics Dave Williams and Lowes Foods senior category manager Charles Slezak — discussed the evolving craft landscape and more during a panel discussion on “Retail Strategies for Craft Brewers.

Seven months after announcing plans to create a national sales platform via investments in San Francisco’s 21st Amendment and Colorado’s Funkwerks, Brooklyn Brewery is readying for what it hopes will be a year of growth across all three brands. Speaking to Brewbound, Dave Duffy, Brooklyn’s vice president of business development, said the three companies have officially integrated their sales forces and “cross-trained on each other’s brands.”

In this week’s edition of Press Clips: Maryland distributors vow to fight Comptroller’s changes; brewers hail tax reform savings; MillerCoors ends Coors Light NASCAR sponsorship; Mitch Steele’s Atlanta brewery sets an opening date; and Bell’s releases Hopslam.

The Brewers Association’s annual Great American Beer Festival drew an estimated 60,000 attendees to the Colorado Convention Center last week, and Brewbound hit the show floor to savor some brews and take in all of the spectacles that the GABF had to offer. Here’s what stood out.

ReedPOP, the world’s leading producer of pop culture events, and Brooklyn Brewery, the 11th largest craft brewer in the US, today revealed the new Brooklyn Defender IPA, a heroically hopped golden IPA (5.9% ABV) and the Official Beer of New York Comic Con 2017.

First Beverage Financial, the investment banking arm of First Beverage Group, announced that it acted as the exclusive financial advisor to both 21st Amendment Brewery and Funkwerks Brewing Company in their new partnership with Brooklyn Brewery.

In this edition of Press Clips: Heineken reports earnings; Buffalo Wild Wings explores beer delivery; Indiana lawmakers review Prohibition-era laws; and more.

Brooklyn Brewery, along with California’s 21st Amendment (21A) and Colorado’s Funkwerks today announced the establishment of a combined sales team, which will be led by Brooklyn vice president of business development Dave Duffy.

Brooklyn Brewery and Danish brewer Carlsberg have announced yet another international craft brewing partnership — this time in Eastern Europe. The two companies have formed a joint venture with Švyturys Brewery, based in the port city of Klaipėda, Lithuania.

Less than a week after announcing a joint brewing venture in Hong Kong, Brooklyn Brewery and Carlsberg this week announced the acquisition of United Kingdom-based London Fields Brewery.

Brooklyn Brewery announced its fourth international brewing venture this week with the formation of HK Yau Brewing Company in Hong Kong.

A group of 33 craft breweries have signed a letter urging senators to vote against the confirmation of Scott Pruitt as administrator of the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency.

After a protracted search for a new home, Brooklyn Brewery appears to be staying put in Williamsburg.