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StoreFlix, the leading mobile SaaS visual execution platform, announced today it has reached an agreement with Cavalier Distributing to deliver cloud-based mobile software to their sales force. Cavalier chose storeFlix to improve visual insight into accounts, ensuring reps will easily capture field information and will best meet the needs of a diverse customer base.

Hitting the beach with the bare essentials – surfboard and beer of course – just got a whole lot easier with Kona Brewing Company’s light, easy-to- carry 6- and 12-packs. The 12-ounce aluminum cans of Longboard Island Lager (4.6% ABV, 18 IBU) are currently available in select states and will expand to additional ones early next year. Big Wave Golden Ale (4.4% ABV, 21 IBU) is being introduced for the first time.

Today marks the official launch of the Best Damn Brewing Co., a brand platform with a simple mission: to bring you the Best Damn thing you’ve had all day. On shelves now, Best Damn Root Beer is the brand’s first mission released nationally and the first hard root beer produced by Anheuser-Busch. It’s a full-flavored, well-balanced take on a favorite classic taste, aged on real vanilla beans during the brewing process.

Two of Kona Brewing Company’s popular Hawaii-only specialty beers are returning to pint glasses across the U.S. The coffee infused Pipeline Porter and the coconut rich Koko Brown Ale make their return to the Mainland in response to increasing demand for the uniquely Hawaiian brews. The beers are limited releases and are not expected to stay on shelves or taps long.

Santa Fe Brewing Company (SFBC) is ecstatic to bring back the holiday tradition of “12 Beers of Christmas.” For the last 4 years, the brewery has held a special release of limited small batch beers brewed by individuals from both the homebrew community, as well as employees of the brewery. As the name implies, each day, for the 12 days leading up to Christmas, a new holiday-inspired beer is tapped at two of the brewery’s chosen taprooms for the public to enjoy. But be sure to get there early because these beers disappear faster than Santa up a chimney.

Peak and The City Bakery are thrilled to announce the release of their annual holiday collaboration, the Holiday Saison. Both Peak and The City Bakery have their ethos rooted in a passion for using the finest quality ingredients to create the freshest and most flavorful products. With that shared passion as the centerpiece for their collaboration beer – a dark malted, spiced Saison brewed with a blend of The City Bakery’s famous holiday spices – the two companies hope to showcase an amazingly flavorful, complex sensory experience.

Stone Brewing, the first American craft brewer to independently build, own and operate a brewery in Europe, will release its first Berlin-brewed beers today. This is the first time in history that the beers will be tapped in bars, restaurants and breweries across Europe. Stone Brewing is the ninth largest brewer in the United States and with brewing now underway at StoneBerlin, the famously big character, hop-centric craft beers will make their fresh debut beginning at 6 p.m. CET at more than 40 locations in Germany, Belgium, Italy, Netherlands, Poland, Spain and the United Kingdom.

After more than four years of planning, capital raising, test-batching and building, Castle Island Brewing is officially open for business.

Throughout the month of December, Miller High Life will celebrate the brand’s rich heritage and the holiday spirit by airing three vintage television spots from the acclaimed “High Life Man” campaign. The three television spots, “Alternative Fuels” (2003), “Waiting” (1999) and “Pondering” (1999), originally aired as part of the “High Life Man” campaign. Each of these ads captures the brand’s personality, highlighting its humor, authenticity and the notion that High Life is a simple, no-frills beer.

Anheuser-Busch InBev (Euronext: ABI) (NYSE: BUD) today announces the launch of four Global Smart Drinking Goals, deepening its commitment to implement effective and collaborative solutions to reduce the harmful use of alcohol. The new goals, to be achieved by the end of 2025, demonstrate an evolution in the company’s approach to responsible drinking, from helping to raise awareness of alcohol responsibility to positively changing behavior by investing in longer-term, evidenced-based approaches to reduce harmful drinking, including underage drinking, binge drinking and drink driving.

On Thursday, December 31, pioneering nanobrewery Saint Benjamin Brewing Company will debut Bonne Année, the second-annual batch of what is sure to become a time-honored annual tradition of New Year’s Eve beers. Bonne Année will be released each New Year’s Eve in kegs, with a portion of each year’s brew reserved and bottle-conditioned for 365 days, to be released the following year along with the new batch, giving beer lovers a festive alternative to champagne and a memorable way to honor the transition from one year to the next. Brewer Christina Burris hopes that fans will “ring out the old with the old and ring in the new with the new” each year.

Upper Hand Brewery is excited to announce that Yooper Ale will soon join the brewery’s year-round portfolio of bottled beers. Currently only on draught, it will be available in bottles beginning in January.

Hi-Wire Brewing is set to release the newest offering from its South Slope Specialty Brewery (197 Hilliard Avenue, Asheville, NC) run by Head Specialty Brewer, Jonathan Parks. A fruit-forward 11.3% ABV beer, this American style Golden Strong Ale was made using fresh guava, papaya and mango.

2 Towns Ciderhouse releases its 2013 Pommeau this week—a port-style cider perfect for capping off a feast or sipping fireside. This 19% ABV cider yields notes of dried apricot, oak-barrel character and subtle hazelnut, as well as aromas of crème brulee and light tobacco. Pommeau was previously produced by 2 Towns’ sister company, Traditions Ciderworks. Past vintages were honored with multiple awards from the Great Lakes International Cider & Perry Festival and Sip Northwest Magazine’s Best of the Northwest.