Craft beer industry news.
Everybody’s Brewing announced today the release of their newest beer, Mountain Mama Pale Ale. Coming in at 5.6% ABV, and 55 IBUs, the hop profile is led by Citra and Cascade, with CTZ used for bittering. The brewery plans to keep this beer available year round.
2-Row Distributing, a division of Del Papa Distributing, is pleased to announce a partnership with SweetWater Brewing to distribute their brands across their Texas City, Beaumont and Victoria marketing territories beginning January 23, 2017.
Ecliptic Brewing’s Capella Porter had quite the year in 2016 — Gold at the World Beer Cup, the US Open BeerChampionships, and the Oregon Beer Awards. These beer competitions bring out the best of the best in the craft beer world and it is quite the honor for a brewery to be able to say one of their beers brought home gold at all three.
Florida-based Cigar City Brewing will expand its distribution footprint for the first time in four years when it enters Tennessee next week, the company announced Thursday. The entry marks the beginning of an ambitious expansion plan for Cigar City that will include forays into North Carolina, South Carolina, New Jersey, Colorado and Utah, chief operating officer Justin Clark told Brewbound.
Granite City Food & Brewery has promoted Letha Kunshier to vice president, human resources. Kunshier previously served as the company’s senior director of human resources.
In this week’s edition of Last Call: Finch Beer strikes a deal for a Chicago brewery; BrewDog hires a former Wicked Weed sour brewer and Starbucks ends its “evenings” program.
Catawba’s Peanut Butter Jelly Time certainly didn’t take the easy road to its near legendary status among craft beer enthusiasts. This hard-earned liquid lunch is the result of blue-collar brewing – hardhats and bootstraps. Aging beer on whole roasted local WNC peanuts presented a unique challenge in 2012, when Catawba brewed their first 3-barrel batch of PB&J. Five years later and now slated for 4-state distribution, this one-of-a-kind beer has inspired some innovative engineering and a proprietary brewing process.
Locally owned and operated beer and wine distributor, Briggs Distributing Company, is excited to announce a new partnership with Kettlehouse Brewing Company. Kettlehouse is a pioneer in the Montana craft beer industry, its roots dating back to 1995. Today, Kettlehouse has several internationally recognized brews and produces more than 15,000 barrels of craft beer annually in Montana.
Armada Brewing, a new Connecticut-based craft brewery, has moved in with East Haven’s Overshores Brewing to begin brew operations. On January 20, 2017, Armada will launch their “Cursed King IPA”, the first of their fleet of beers to Connecticut. The bottle release will be held at Overshores Brewing at 250Bradley Street in East Haven from 9am – 4pm. Following the bottle release,Armada is having their launch party at The Beer Collective at 130 Court StreetNew Haven from 5pm – 10pm. In addition to their Cursed King IPA, Armada will have future releases and special beers on tap for your enjoyment.
Bay City Brewing Co. is proud to announce its newest beer, “Bay City Dark Lager”. Schwarzbier literally translates from German to mean “black beer”. The characteristics of this black lager are not overly bitter, nor does it drink necessarily heavy in body while coming in at 5.3% ABV.
A tribute to the sometimes tart but always effervescent Tami Plourde, Director of Marketing and Sales for Pearl Street Brewery, this tart and effervescent Belgian-style Framboise is brewed with yeast and bacteria cultures just like the spontaneously fermented beers of the Lambic regions of West Flanders. This beer is aged on a half-pound of raspberries for every pint.
Start the year off dark and hoppy. Pike Octopus Ink Black IPA is a complex and intriguing beer, blending the hoppy flavor of your favorite IPA with the dark malt character of a tasty stout. This seasonal beer is dry hopped not once, but twice, with Citra, Amarillo and Simcoe hops, ensuring that plenty of citrus and piney hops shine through its smooth, round and chocolaty stout-like base.
Husky sled dogs are bred for the perfect characteristics to carry them to the finish line. Breeders look for endurance, strength, speed, tough feet, a good attitude and drive. Mosaic hops come from that same pursuit of perfection and serve as the centerpiece of Alaskan Brewing spring seasonal Husky IPA.
Half Acre Beer Company and Colorado-based Ska Brewing invite Chicagoans to celebrate the release of their collaborative Old Century Imperial Brown Ale at Charleston Bar on Friday, Jan. 13 at 8 p.m. Ska Co-Founder Dave Thibodeau met with the crew at Half Acre in Chicago this fall to produce the duo’s first collaboration brew together.
