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SAN DIEGO — The Craft Beer Association of San Diego (CBA-SD), a new think tank and economic development/marketing consultancy, will officially launch to the public on Saturday, April 19th.

Hampton, NH – Introduced in 2009, Star Island Single, Smuttynose’s delicately spiced, sessionable, Belgian-style pale ale will be retired from the Hampton-based brewery’s full-time lineup at the end of April, 2014.

VICTOR, ID — Grand Teton Brewing Company, known throughout the West for their exceptional craft brews, is proud to announce the release of Splash Down Belgian- Style Golden Ale, the second offering in their 2014 Cellar Reserve series.

LAKEWOOD, WA — Mead, the alcoholic beverage made from honey, may be the world’s oldest fermented drink, but it is also the country’s hottest. A recent industry surveyreveals that mead sales increased 130% from 2012 to 2013, exceeding growth rates for beer, wine, distilled spirits and hard cider.

San Francisco, CA – January 2014 was a huge milestone for Triple Voodoo as we opened our new brewery and tasting room in the Dog Patch neighborhood of San Francisco.

MIDDLEBURY, Vt. — Vermont Hard Cider Company is the proud recipient of the World Expo of Beer Commercial Competition awards for Best Standard Ciders and Best Specialty Ciders.

CHICAGO, Illinois — Numbers doubling, tripling and quadrupling all define the growing Chicago craft beer scene and the Illinois Craft Brewers Guild’s 5th Annual Chicago Craft Beer Week (May 15-25).

DENVER — Representing the first major innovation in yeast cultivation in more than 100 years, San Diego-based White Labs unveils its proprietary FlexCell propagation process, which minimizes its environmental footprint while ensuring the quality and purity commercial brewing customers expect.

Boulder, Colorado — “This is, has been, and will be one of the best beers in the country,” writes Dow Scoggins, chairman of the board governing the U.S. Open Beer Championships and editor of BeerInfo.com, in a recent article on the site.

Dover, DE — Abbey Belgian Style Ale has taken her vows and joined the Dominion Brewing Pinup Series.

Kansas City — Boulevardia, Kansas City’s newest beer, food and music festival, is pleased to announce the entertainment lineup. Capital Cities, the indie electro band from Los Angeles, will headline the three-day festival with a performance on Saturday night, June 14th.

Boston, MA — It all started as a friendly brewing competition among Harpoon employees. About 5 years ago, brewery staffers from every department were invited to brew a beer of their choosing and present it to their colleagues for a blind sampling and voting at the company’s annual gathering in Vermont. Each year the competition… Read more »

VISTA, CA — In 1921 three San Diego businessmen founded the original Aztec Brewing Company brewery in Mexicali, Mexico. Aztec moved North to San Diego after the repeal of Prohibition where it became a substantial regional brewery until it was purchased by the Altes BrewingÔÇêCompany in the late 1940’s and the brand was retired.

Redlands, CA — Hangar 24 Charities will bring multi-platinum rock group Everclear to the Redlands Airport to headline their two-day Airfest & 6th Anniversary Celebration.