Craft beer is insanely popular, yes, but unlike most things in vogue, it isn’t always easy to find. Since craft breweries produce far less beer than their macro-counterparts, a given brewery’s distribution is often very limited.
SanTan Brewing Co. today announced the hiring of Wendy Weathers, who has been named the company’s new national business development manager. Weathers, who most recently served as the national sales director for Oskar Blues, will be spearheading the Arizona-based brewery’s southwestern expansion efforts.
Total Beverage Solution today announced it has acquired the trademark and product recipes of Celis beers from CraftBev International. “We are currently considering a number of options for brewing, and we plan to reintroduce the brand to market by mid-2014,” said Dave Pardus, Total Beverage Solution CEO in a press release.
It’s only Tuesday, but we’re guessing you already need a beer. Good news — today is National Lager Day! Two breweries that have become synonymous with the lager style are celebrating in different ways.
D.G. Yuengling Brewery will officially return to the Massachusetts market in the first quarter of 2014 with seven wholesalers, a company official confirmed to Brewbound today. Yuengling COO, Dave Cassinelli said the company has signed agreements with L. Knife & Son Inc., Seaboard Products, Craft Brewers Guild of Boston, ABI House of Quality, Girardi, Williams… Read more »
Victory Brewing Co. today announced it will expand its distribution footprint in the U.S. and internationally this winter, offering its year-round brands to six new territories. Beginning this month, Brasserie Purveyors will begin importing the Victory brand on Grand Cayman Island, while Great Brands AB and Vertical Drinks will distribute Victory products in Sweden and… Read more »
7G Distributing, a Cedar Rapids, Iowa-based Anheuser-Busch InBev wholesaler announced that, effective Jan. 1, it will acquire Davenport, Iowa based Vanguard Distributing. “It was a footprint that’s adjacent to our territory and that made it very attractive. We expect to achieve a number of synergies,” 7G Owner Joe Lee told The Gazette.
The agreements mark the first commercial movement from a potentially disruptive contract brewer with an ambitious model — one that has the flexibility to work with both emerging and well-established breweries.
As Dogfish Head’s supply catches up to demand, the Milton, Del.-based brewery continues to announce details on its re-entry into states that it had exited in March 2011. In a blog entry posted today on the brewery’s website, a Dogfish Head spokesperson writes that beer is on the way to wholesalers in Wisconsin and will… Read more »
For decades, wine was the pinnacle of class. Those who sought not just taste, but also considered region and age in their glass weren’t merely drinkers, but connoisseurs. That inherent sophistication had long been absent in beer, which was mostly inexpensive and uniform in flavor. In recent times, however, craft beer is often viewed as… Read more »
Heading north up I-55 from its St. Louis home, 4 Hands Brewing Co. is blowing into the Windy City in 2014, bringing seven of its beers to Chicago, per an agreement with Wirtz Beverage of Illinois.
Over the past week, a number of small breweries inked new distribution deals aimed at strengthening each one’s home market presence. The Black Abbey Brewing Co., based in Nashville, Tenn., came to an agreement with BountyBev that will bring its beers to the state’s Rutherford, Wilson and Sumner Counties, according to the Nashville Post.
It might go down as one of the smallest buyouts in craft beer history, but Idle Hands Craft Ales, a Boston-area nano-brewery, today announced it will purchase the intellectual property of nearby Enlightenment Ales.
Prohibition was repealed with the ratification of the 21st Amendment in 1933. Now, 80 years later, there are new laws on the books that don’t seem to make much sense to craft brewers across the country. In Florida, for instance, growlers that hold a quart of beer or less are completely legal, as are jugs… Read more »
