Craft beer industry news.
Craft Brew Alliance, Inc. (“CBA”) (Nasdaq: BREW), a leading craft brewing company, announced today that Andy Thomas, chief executive officer, and Scott Mennen, chief operating officer, will present at the Barclays Global Consumer Staples Conference in Boston, Mass. at 10:30 am ET on Thursday, September 6, 2018.
Alaskan Brewing Company welcomes autumn with their latest seasonal beer, Cranberry Tart. Taking inspiration from the season of harvest and foraging, Cranberry Tart features local Sitka spruce tips along with a medley of berry flavor, the perfect accompaniment to rich, savory fall meals.
Constellation Brands, Inc. (NYSE: STZ and STZ.B), a leading beverage alcohol company, announced today that Bill Newlands, president and chief operating officer and David Klein, chief financial officer, will present at the Barclays Global Consumer Staples Conference on Wednesday, September 5, 2018, at the Intercontinental Hotel in Boston, Mass.
With the North Cascades right at their back door, it’s quite fitting that the newest line of IPAs released by the Kulshan Brewing Company be named the Cascade Peaks IPA Series. On Friday, August 31st, Kulshan kicked off the series with Bellingham’s favorite Heliotrope IPA, released earlier this summer on draft only.
The continued growth of All Day IPA has Founders Brewing Company staring down nearly 600,000 barrels of beer in 2018, according to the brewery’s co-founder and CEO Mike Stevens. “We’re clipping along at around 30 percent growth,” Stevens told Brewbound. “I see next year about the same.”
Brewers Ben Low and Matt Johannes announced today that they plan to open Side By Each Brewing Co. at 1110 Minot Avenue in Auburn this winter.
Portland Cider Company has released its seasonal fall favorite, Pumpkin Spice Cider.
MillerCoors will eliminate 350 salaried positions across the organization by the end of October, the company announced today in a memo. In the letter, CEO Gavin Hattersley characterized the job cuts as MillerCoors “moving quickly and decisively to get our business back on track.” Molson Coors’ U.S. business is offering a voluntary severance program to existing employees as well as eliminating 150 unfilled positions.
Brewbound is proud to be an official media partner of this week’s California Craft Beer Summit and Festival in Sacramento. The California Craft Brewers Association will host its annual industry meeting and beer festival Thursday, September 6, through Saturday, September 8, at the Sacramento Convention Center. With more than 900 craft breweries now in operation, California is home to more craft beer companies than any other state in the nation and it contributed more than $8.2 billion to the U.S. economy in 2017.
Five Boroughs Brewing Co., a Brooklyn-based brewery, and Le District, New York’s premiere French marketplace, teamed up in Spring 2018 to create Rosé Saison, which was exclusively available at Beaubourg Brasserie at Le District and the Five Boroughs Brewing Co. taproom.
Scofflaw Brewing Co’s co-founders Matt Shirah and Travis Herman, are bringing their craft beer elixirs across the pond to the United Kingdom, come late September/early October.
The “Uncharted Waters” Series by Heavy Seas Beer has welcomed back Great’er Pumpkin, an Imperial Pumpkin Ale aged in bourbon barrels.
Flavorwave is the latest creation from Indeed Brewing Company’s Head Brewer, Josh Bischoff, who explains, “For the recipe of our first year-round IPA, we felt it was appropriate to explore current trends in hopping techniques both in the brew kettle as well as dry hopping. We chose a handful of our favorite classic and new American hops all leaning towards a juicy and fruity profile. The end results in layers (or waves) of hop flavor and aroma while leaving the ‘old school’ signature IPA bitterness largely behind.”
Barrio Brewing, led by Arizonans Dennis and Tauna Arnold, has a history that dates back to 1991 when the couple opened up Tucson’s first full mash brewery. Twenty-seven years later the duo is going strong as the longest-running independent brewer in the state and is stepping up its retail reach by packaging its beers in environmentally-friendly aluminum beverage cans from Ardagh.
