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CBC: Industry Stakeholders Share Tactics for Building and Defending Taprooms

CBC: Industry Stakeholders Share Tactics for Building and Defending Taprooms

Taprooms and direct-to-consumer sales were hot topics during this year’s Craft Brewers Convention in Nashville, Tennessee. Two seminars — “Building Your Brand Through the Tasting Room” and “Defense and Promotion of Tasting Rooms” — focused on the phenomenon that has agitated some retailers and wholesalers, but the topic bled into other conversations throughout the week.

Jack Belsito Joins First Beverage Ventures

First Beverage Ventures is pleased to announce that Jack Belsito has joined the firm as a managing partner based in the firm’s New York office.

Coin Toss Brewing and Bent Shovel Brewing Collaborate on Belgian Wit

Many people dream of the day they can leave their full-time day job and follow their dream career. For brewery founders Tim Hohl of Coin Toss Brewing and Rick Strauss of Bent Shovel Brewing, that day came earlier this year, when both men left longtime jobs in the corporate world. 

Honor Brewing Company Adds Distribution in San Diego

Brown Bag Beverage, one of the fastest growing Craft Beer Distributors in the Greater San Diego area added another Craft Beer company with an amazing mission to their distribution portfolio, Honor Brewing Company from Chantilly Virginia.

Catawba Brewing Releases Cloud Cover Rebellion Roads and 2 Other New IPAs

atawba Brewing kicks off their AVL Beer Week 2018 lineup with the second release in their Cloud Cover Hazy IPA Series. Rebellion Roads (8.2 percent ABV) is slated to make landfall on Saturday, May 26, exclusively at Catawba’s four tasting rooms – draft and 4-pack 16oz cans. Brewed at their 10-barrel Charlotte brewhouse, Rebellion Roads is available for a very limited time.