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Amid Declines, Boston Beer Reformulates Rebel IPA Recipe

Amid Declines, Boston Beer Reformulates Rebel IPA Recipe

In an effort to halt a sales slide for one of its most popular flagship brands, Boston Beer Company today unveiled a reformulated recipe for Samuel Adams Rebel IPA that now features the popular Mosaic hop variety as well as a new grain bill void of caramel malt. It’s the first time in Boston Beer’s 32-year history that the company has “significantly changed” the recipe of a flagship beer, according to founder Jim Koch, and it comes just three years after the product was first introduced nationally.

Oskar Blues Fooderies Opens CHUBurger and Hotbox Roasters CBD Cafe in Denver’s RiNo Neighborhood

Oskar Blues Fooderies celebrates its move into Denver with two new offerings, located adjacent to each other, in Denver’s RiNo district. CHUBurger RiNo is a fast-craft-casual concept dishing up mouth-watering and locally sourced food – quickly and affordably. Its neighbor, Hotbox Roasters CBD (coffee, beer, doughnuts) Café is Hotbox Roasters’ first brick and mortar store.

Narragansett Releases Next Lovecraft Beer: The Unnamable Black Lager

Locked inside of a deserted mausoleum, Randolph Carter and Rhode Island artist Jarrett McPhee stood under candlelight with two cans of The Unnamable Black Lager in their hands. There, immersed in darkness at the request of Narragansett Beer, the pair wondered why they had agreed to go to such great lengths in order to illustrate the label for Narragansett’s fifth chapter and sixth release in its Lovecraft Series.

Catawba Brewing Releases #TBT Small Batch Beer

This American Blonde Ale is an interesting dichotomy. A traditional summer beer brewed in January. A new release that’s actually an old recipe.