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Evans Brewing Company, publicly traded under the stock symbol ALES, has expanded product distribution to Washington with the signing of an agreement with Browar Polska Inc. to distribute the company’s core year-round packaged beers to retailers throughout the state. Evans Brewing 22-ounce bottles are expected to hit shelves in the Washington market in early June.

Sprecher Brewing Company, long recognized as a leader in the craft beer and craft soda markets, will double its portfolio of “hard soda” beverages with the introduction of three new products — Hard Cherry Cola, Hard Orange Cream and Hard Cola.

For the first time in their two decades of brewing, Allagash Brewing Company has released a wild beer fermented with Brettanomyces yeast in a 4-pack of 12oz bottles.

Grayton Beer Company recently announced that the beer currently packaged as 30A Beach Blonde Ale is now available in 12 oz. cans as Beach Permit Blonde Ale. Appropriately named, the new aluminum packaging allows the popular local brew to be iced down and taken to the beach.

America’s more than 3,000 licensed, independent beer distributors are celebrating the excitement that new, entrepreneurial brewers bring to the beer industry and consumers across the country during American Craft Beer Week, May 16-22, 2016. During the week, the culture and contributions of local breweries across the United States will be highlighted.

Louis Glunz Beer, Inc., Chicago’s premier craft and specialty import beer distributor, announces the addition of Blake’s Hard Cider Co. to its catalog, available now. The partnerships with Glunz and other select Chicagoland retailers marks Blake’s entry into the Chicago market.

Weekend fun may be closer than you realize if you’re willing to slow down, appreciate the moment and trade in your weekdays for “Teeny, Tiny, Fridays.” That’s the advice from one of three new television commercials from Kona Brewing Company that begin airing in San Diego, Sacramento, Seattle and Orlando on May 16.

Speakeasy Ales & Lagers is happy to announce that David Szamborksi has joined the brewery as its new Director of Brewing. Szamborksi, better known as Zambo in the beer industry, arrives with over 10 years of high quality, award winning, brewing experience. The position was recently vacated by Kushal Hall, who decided to return to Southern California.

Summit Brewing Company today announces the release of 30th Anniversary Keller Pils. The second beer in a series of four anniversary brews will be available on draught and in six-packs and 12-packs of 12-ounce cans the week of May 16.

Two California breweries have recently commissioned Regatta Solutions to install Capstone microturbines as a way to achieve their energy efficiency and carbon reduction goals. The microturbines will positively impact these businesses’ bottom line by generating electrical and thermal energy on site. Combined Heat and Power (CHP), or cogeneration, allows the exhaust heat from the microturbines to be converted via heat exchangers into hot water or steam for the brewing process.

Innis & Gunn, the award-winning independent brewer of oak-aged beers, is releasing a new and limited-release beer in the US. Innis & Gunn Vintage is a 7.7% ABV ale that was brewed in 2015 and aged in first-fill American bourbon barrels for 100 days before being packaged in 25-ounce bottles.

Several months after first launching distribution of its beers in Texas, Southern California-based AleSmith Brewing Company has signed with Ben E. Keith Company to increase its network within the Lone Star State. Starting in June, AleSmith’s beers will be available in Austin, Houston, San Antonio, Galveston and these locales’ surrounding areas.

DuClaw Brewing Co. of Baltimore announces partnership with Northeast Beverage. Bars, restaurants, and retailers in the state of Connecticut will begin stocking, and pouring DuClaw’s unique brews this week.

On the heels of its Lincoln Park brewpub launch and just prior to Chicago Craft Beer Week, Burnt City Brewing announces its three year-round beers, available now. The brewery cans the beers—Dick the Butcher pale ale, Face Melter hibiscus IPA, and Balloon Boy farmhouse wheat ale—in its production facility on the South Side of Chicago and also rotates canned seasonals and other special limited releases throughout the year.