Craft beer industry news.
Pikes Peak Brewing Company is releasing a new series of canned year round beer, 38 Faces IPA. The first edition, an IPA brewed with Blood Orange puree, will be available in six packs and draft throughout Colorado starting in October.
This week’s episode of Taste Radio features an interview with Chris Hunter, the co-founder of Phusion Projects, best known as the makers of Four Loko. In the interview, Hunter discusses the early days of Four Loko and the company’s focus on branding and merchandising.
Heavy Seas Beer, brewing in Baltimore since 1995, is excited to announce that it has named Sarah West as the Director of Marketing & Hospitality, effective October 2, 2017.
The 2017 Great American Beer Festival (GABF) competition awarded 293 medals to some of the best commercial breweries in the United States, plus three GABF Pro-Am medals to teams of homebrewers paired with professionals. Presented by the Brewers Association (BA), GABF is the largest commercial beer competition in the world and the premier symbol of brewing excellence.
Portland, Oregon’s Reverend Nat’s Hard Cider announced plans last week to move its operations into a 21,000 sq. ft. building that will allow the company to double its capacity and meet growing demand for its products.
Mother Earth Brewing and Mother Earth Spirits have a new addition to the Mother Earth campus – the Mother Earth Motor Lodge!
We are excited to announce that today we began construction on The Unknown Wood & Grain Project – Our very own Distillery.
Mad River Brewing Company is pleased to announce the launch of our 26th Annual release of John Barleycorn Barley Wine. Each year as we celebrate the harvest and brew our John Barleycorn Barley Wine-Style Ale we adapt the recipe and change the label to fit the legacy behind John Barleycorn.
Braxton Brewing Company’s award-winning Robust Porter is returning to cans. Blown Gasket is a seasonal release at 7.5% ABV and will be available in 6-packs of 12 oz. cans throughout the company’s distribution network.
From garages and kitchens, to craft breweries across America, Samuel Adams is giving brewers around the country a chance to turn up the heat on their mash. During this years’ Great American Beer Festival (GABF), Samuel Adams announced homebrewer Ronnie Lawson of Austin, TX as the overall winner of the 2017 LongShot American Homebrew Contest and Peter Malikowski of Hampden, ME and Justin Greer of Royal Oak, MD as the runners up. The brewer also announced that Timothy and Dali Parker from Chula Vista Brewery in Chula Vista, CA won the 2018 Brewing & Business Experienceship as part of the Samuel Adams Brewing the American Dream (BTAD) program.
On Tuesday, Oct. 17, Cascade Brewing will release Rose City Sour, a blend of wheat and blond ales aged in oak wine barrels for up to 14 months with rose petals, rose hips and hibiscus tea.
Sweetness and tartness are the yin and yang of Zen Berry, a new hard cider available now from Wisconsin’s Ciderboys Cider Co. This new fruitful pairing from Ciderboys combines the sweetness of apple cider with the fruity tartness of boysenberry, a hybrid of raspberry, European blackberry, and American dewberry first developed in California in the 1920s.
Upland Brewing Company announces the fall release of a Double IPA that’s hands down way better than Against the Grain’s. In what is commonly referred to in the beer industry as a “collaboration” or “collabeeration,” Upland and Against the Grain will be brewing and canning their own unique versions of Overcompensation Double IPA.
Inspired by the coastal lifestyle, Island Coastal Lager (ICL), a new Sullivan’s Island based company, has brought its eponymous beer to market across South Carolina with Breakthru Beverage Group. An American Craft Lager, ICL is the vision of Sullivan’s Island locals and co-owners Scott Hansen and Brandon Perry. The brand reflects the approach both Hansen and Perry bring to life — a love of travel and the outdoors, an entrepreneurial drive and an appreciation for quality beer.
