Craft beer industry news.
Highland Brewing Company, Asheville’s original craft brewery, is proud to announce that it has entered into a sponsorship with the 2018 Iditarod Trail Invitational 1,000-mile race champion, Pete Ripmaster. Highland Brewing’s sponsorship of Ripmaster will cover his entry fees for The Arrowhead 135 ultra race in Minnesota and some local races, including Highland Brewing’s own 2018 Night Flight race.
Dust Bowl Brewing Co. announces the release of Lateral 3, the third in a series of hazy IPAs from the Northern California craft brewery.
Sunshine State Distributing announced a new partnership with Atlantic Beach Brewing Company that will begin distribution of the brewery’s core line of craft beer in Central Florida to six counties.
Zest Crazed is the kind of beer your parents warned you about. Wild-eyed, lurid tales of hop aromatics and citrus flavor follow this American pale ale around.
Returning for a fourth year, Silver Moon Brewing will again lead the charge for cancer prevention, education and research with its annual “F* Cancer” campaign.
Heineken USA today announced that Maggie Timoney, who currently serves as the CEO and managing director of Heineken Ireland, will take over as CEO of the international beer maker’s U.S. division starting September 1. With the appointment, Timoney, a U.S. citizen who got her start in the beer business in 1993 as a sales supervisor for New York’s Sound Distributing Corporation, will become the first female CEO at a major U.S. beer company.
U.S. beer dollar sales increased 4.1 percent as volume sales grew 2.1 percent through the four weeks ending May 20, according to retail data provider IRI Worldwide.
After 14 years with Weyerbacher Brewing, Chris Wilson will be leaving his position as Brewmaster to pursue another opportunity with Free Will Brewing in Perkasie, Pennsylvania.
Springdale Beer just launched the first blend in their brand new Beta Blend Series.
Cascade Brewing will introduce a new smaller format for its award-winning barrel aged Northwest sour beers.
The team at Vacationland Distributors, LLC. proudly announce the signing of Schilling Beer Co. and Resilience from Littleton, NewHampshire.
Sapporo, the number one selling premium Asian beer brand in the U.S., announced today the release of Sapporo Premium in a new 16-oz.(473 ml.) version of the sleek and distinctive Sapporo can.
Terminal Gravity Pilsner will be released in twelve ounce cans.
Ryan Sentz has handed over the Funky Buddha Lounge & Brewery in Boca Raton, Florida, to family friend and homebrewer Allen Steen, who is transforming the space into the Robot Brewing Company & Quixotic Lounge. Sentz, the founder of Funky Buddha, told Brewbound that the transaction, which was finalized about a month ago, gives Robot Brewing the lounge’s 1-barrel brewery and neighboring homebrew supply shop for “zero dollars.”
