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The Cincinnati Symphony Orchestra (CSO) is pleased to announce a partnership with Bell’s Brewery of Kalamazoo, Michigan surrounding its upcoming performances of Gustav Holst’s The Planets on February 19 & 21.

Six-year-old Boulder based Upslope Brewing Company continues to show signs of rapid growth. By surpassing the 15,000-barrel mark in sales for the first time during 2014, Upslope reached their goal of becoming a regional craft brewery one year ahead of schedule.

Forbidden Root, Chicago’s own botanic brewing company, debuts its single origin cacao line of beers under the Divine Mud label. The first of the series, Heavy Petal™, will be released to the Chicago market Monday, February 2, 2015. Throughout the year, Forbidden Root will offer different variants of the Divine Mud series in very limited release. All distribution will be through Windy City Distributing., LLC.

Saranac has mastered the forces of NITRO in their newest year-round beer, Disruption Brown Ale. Disruption has made Saranac the first craft brewery on the east coast to release a nitrogenated can beer.

Known for crafting boldly hopped brews including West Coast IPA® and Palate Wrecker®, Green Flash Brewing Co. has successfully pushed the IBU envelope to achieve extreme hop flavor. This month, the brewery will kick off their 3rd annual Hop Odyssey series – a national beer program which focuses on exploring new hop varietals, fresh combinations and innovative brewing methods.

Drizly, the technology company powering fast, convenient beer, wine and liquor delivery for consumers and businesses across the U.S., today announced it has expanded to Baltimore, MD.

Building off the success of his Massachusetts Pour Tour and Connecticut Pour Tour, Todd Ruggere will kick-off his tour of the United States in an effort to raise funds for cancer research at noon on Saturday, February 7, 2015 at Two Roads Brewing in Stratford.

Full Sail Brewing has announced the release of their 2015 Bourbon Barrel Aged Imperial Stout. “The annual release of our barrel aged beers is a celebration of the best of American beer and American bourbon. Barrel aging beers has been a Full Sail tradition since 1998 when we joyfully discovered what happens when you pair vintage barrels, dedication, and patience. Every year since, we’ve brewed an imperial style dark ale, filled roughly sixty oak bourbon barrel casks and then aged them in our cellar for a year,” said Jamie Emmerson, Full Sail Brewing Company’s Executive Brewmaster.

Surf Brewery, a small commercial craft brewery, open since 2011, with an onsite tasting room and homebrew shop, announced that they are releasing their second barrel aged beer for sale at the brewery on Valentine’s Day, Saturday, February 14. For the true ‘beer lover’, a release party from 5-8pm, complete with free tasting of the new beer, bottle discount and LIVE music.

Ryan Krill’s experience with beer in college consisted largely not of brewing it, but of drinking it out of a used cleat in a strange post-rugby game tradition. And in grad school, he cracked a bathtub in a home-brew experiment gone wrong. But after graduation, and after making a name for himself in Manhattan’s finance and real estate development sectors, he took a leap of faith. Ryan teamed up with Villanova University buddy Chris Henke, tester of commercial satellites, and his own father, a retired pharmaceutical executive named Bob, to start a brewery.

Apricadabra! Say the magic word and enjoy a magic moment when you savor Apricadabra Apricot Wheat Ale, the refreshing new spring seasonal beer from the Stevens Point Brewery.

Following the reintroduction of the Small Brewer Reinvestment and Expanding Workforce Act (Small BREW Act) in the House of Representatives, the Brewers Association—the not-for-profit trade association dedicated to small and independent American brewers—announced the Senate companion bill, S. 375, has been reintroduced by Senator Ben Cardin (D-Md.) and Senator Susan Collins (R-Me.).

Boulder Beer Company, Colorado’s First Craft Brewery, will release a new spring seasonal brew in March called Emergent White IPA.

NOLA Brewing will be turning six years old in March and the brewery is celebrating with an anniversary party on March 6 dubbed Six Years of Beers.