Craft beer industry news.
Widmer Brothers Brewing today announced the release of Hefe Twisted Citrus, a refreshing and juicy new version of America’s Original Hefeweizen that will be available in bottles and on draft across the Pacific Northwest.
Break out the rain boots and get ready to dive into a pile of leaves! Hollow Jack is back with a taste to inspire fall shenanigans. This unfiltered pumpkin cider is 6.4% ABV and made with over 25 pounds of caramelized heirloom pumpkins and 10 pounds of sweet potatoes per barrel. It’s beautifully seasoned with a unique blend of autumn spices for a treat that will have you embracing fall with open arms!
Ninkasi Brewing Company is proud to bring back Sleigh’r Winter Ale to its Seasonal Release Series. Available in bottles and on-draft September through December, this deeply-roasted, uniquely crisp winter seasonal is the perfect beer to usher in colder months.
After adding nearly 2,000 workers over the course of acquiring 10 U.S. craft breweries, Anheuser-Busch InBev is doing some cutting.
Fast-growing Lord Hobo Brewing – which launched in 2015 and grew more than 400 percent last year — today announced that it has sold a minority stake to Valterra Partners, a boutique private investment firm with offices in New York and Massachusetts. Specific financial terms were not disclosed, and the transaction is expected to close this month.
On Tuesday, Sept. 12, Cascade Brewing and Bruery Terreux will each release a version of their long-awaited collaboration beer: One Way or Another. One Way or Another is a blend of sour triple ales aged in oak wine barrels for up to 16 months with regional ingredients including Oregon marionberries and California Meyer lemons (7.9% ABV).
Atwater Brewery, Detroit’s largest and fasting growing brewery, plans to mark its twentieth anniversary by making Hey Diddle Diddle, the craft beer inspired by Mike Sadler, available for the first time in Michigan.
At a ceremony yesterday evening at the U.S. Capitol, the Beer Institute announced that United States Senators Roy Blunt (R-MO) and Ron Wyden (D-OR) as well as Representatives Ron Kind (D-WI) and Erik Paulsen (R-MN) have been chosen as the Beer Institute’s “2017 Beer Champions.”
Second Self Beer Company launched its “Brewer Series,” coinciding with the September 1st shift in Georgia’s beer legislation and just in time for the Atlanta craft brewery’s third anniversary in October.
Family-owned Lindemans Brewery, Belgium’s largest independent lambic brewery, is proud to introduce its latest addition to their fruit beer line, Lindemans Strawberry Lambic. It is the brewery’s first new fruited lambic in over a decade.
Indeed Brewing is excited to announce that Rum King Imperial Stout will be released on October 4, 2017 at Old Chicago locations in Roseville, Apple Valley, Eden Prairie, and Duluth.
Returning for the second year is Lone Tree Brewing Company’s Cranberry Saison in 22-ounce bombers.
As recovery efforts in the wake of Hurricane Harvey continue in the Houston area, Florida is bracing for category 5 Hurricane Irma, which is slated to hit this weekend. The storm is expected to be more powerful than Hurricane Andrew, a category 5 hurricane that devastated the Bahamas and Florida 25 years ago and is considered the most destructive hurricane in the state’s history. Several Florida breweries are already preparing to hunker down.
Upland Brewing owner and president Doug Dayhoff will sell his minority interest in the company back to existing investors and depart the company at the end of the year, the company announced today. Speaking to Brewbound, Dayhoff, 47, said the investor group would repurchase his minority interest in the company over the next “1-2 years.”
