New Belgium will wade into the increasingly crowded hard seltzer segment next year with Fruit Smash, Brewbound has confirmed. Massachusetts’ Trillium Brewing reopened its popular beer garden on Boston’s Rose Kennedy Greenway today for its fourth season.

Independent craft brewers, White Lion Brewing Company, of Springfield and Trillium Brewing Company, of Boston announced their participation in the nationwide Black is Beautiful initiative with the upcoming release of their collaborative imperial stout.

In California, where more than 1,000 breweries are in operation, the state Alcoholic Beverage Control (ABC) has offered temporary regulatory relief for license holders such as drive-thru windows for off-premise transactions, packaged goods sold to-go from on-premise retailers and delivery to consumers.

Trillium’s newly released Double Dry Hopped Double IPA ‘Leap Beer’ is brewed with an amped up amount of Galaxy and Simcoe hops, and clocks in at 8.6% ABV.

Newly named Massachusetts Brewers Guild’s president Sam Hendler wants to finally resolve the contentious franchise reform debate with the state’s wholesalers. Hendler, a co-founder and co-owner of Framingham, Massachusetts-based craft breweries Jack’s Abby Craft Lagers and the Springdale Beer Company, acknowledged that the franchise law reform effort has been dragging on long before he was of legal drinking age. “I was a high school senior when it started,” he told Brewbound.

Seven years after establishing Trillium Brewing Company, co-founder JC Tetreault said the Canton, Massachusetts-based craft brewery was not living up to his intention for the business to “being a very good reflection of the broader community around us.” Enter the Urban Farming Institute of Boston (UFI), an organization dedicated to promoting farming in urban neighborhoods.

Trillium Brewing Company and Firestone Walker Brewing Company have released Switchboard Operator, a new Double IPA that weighs in at 9.5% ABV, with a generous addition of Citra hops, and pours a light orange hue with an inviting heavy haze.

Charlotte, North Carolina-based Sycamore Brewing added distribution to Virginia this month, vice president of sales Archie Gleason told Brewbound. Night Shift Brewing will begin distribution to New Hampshire in 2020, according to a Facebook post from Amoskeag Beverages.

Trillium Brewing Company has released Threads, a modern-day interpretation on a nearly extinct, yet incredibly complex, traditional British Strong Ale. Inspired by a rich history of English Brewing, Threads, and its three single-adjunct variants, are aged in a variety of barrels ranging from Bourbon and Maple Bourbon to Rye and Apple Brandy. Trillium and their friends in brewing at Cloudwater, Other Half, Monkish and The Veil, thoughtfully blended portions of each close to three-year barrel-aged ale to unravel a final beer that is incredibly thought-provoking and complex.

Now there is one more reason to visit the iconic neighborhood setting the tone in the city of Boston. Trillium Brewing Company has announced the launch of its newest outpost at 401 Park, in The Fenway neighborhood.

In this week’s edition of Last Call: Deschutes tells Roanoke city officials it is unlikely to build a production facility by a 2021 deadline; Trillium spends $13 million to acquire Canton real estate; Deschutes hires ex-Dogfish Head VP of marketing; BrewDog shares Q1 highlights; and more industry news.

Trillium Brewing Company and Rose Kennedy Greenway Conservancy are excited to announce the return of Trillium Garden on The Greenway.

Trillium Brewing Company is expanding once again. The company today announced plans to open two new locations in the greater Boston area. The popular Massachusetts-based maker of hazy New England IPAs will relocate its Canton brewery headquarters to a sprawling 19-acre “forever home” about five miles away from its current facility. It will also open a taproom and retail store in the Fenway neighborhood of Boston.

Industry headwinds, brewery acquisitions, the emerging cannabis sector, and the seemingly never ending battle between big and small beer makers were the focus of Brewbound’s most-read stories of 2018.