Craft beer industry news.
Finest Made Ales has a lot to look forward to, including a new sales manager, Charles Witchey. With Finest Made bottles hitting the market, Witchey joins the team to help expand in California and beyond. Witchey brings 16 years of sales experience in the adult beverage industry.
After five years of operating Traditions Ciderworks as a sister company, 2 Towns Ciderhouse begins this week to rebrand the line with the 2 Towns moniker, now calling it our Traditions line. The 2 Towns Traditions line of vintage ciders focuses on specialty barrel-aged and traditionally inspired ciders.
The shortest day of the year means the longest night, with more time to drink Full Sail’s new, perfectly balancedShortest Day Cascadian Dark Ale. Shortest Day CDA, which has already won a gold medal from this year’sGreat International Beer & Cider Competition, is brewed with 2-row pale, crystal, and de-husked chocolate malts. It pours a deep dark black with a lacy tan head, with aromas of dark roasty malt and hints of tropical and citrus fruit.
A rare, wild yeast was recently discovered in a forest in Patagonia, at coordinates 41°S – 71°W. It turned out to be the mother of all lager yeasts, including the famous Heineken® A-Yeast. Heineken’s Master Brewer, Willem Van Waesberghe took the challenge to tame it into a limited edition beer: it gives the lager beer a surprising full taste, with spicy notes and fruity hints. A unique beer style was born: the “Wild Lager’’.
Small Town Brewery made a splash last year when the company’s “Not Your Father’s Root Beer” product notched more than $104 million in off-premise sales. But the apparent novelty of drinking an alcoholic soda seems to have slowed in 2016; sales of the flagship root beer offering are down an astonishing 75 percent over the last four weeks, according market research firm IRI Worldwide. The company today announced the launch of a line of “classically brewed beers” under the “Not Your Father’s Taproom” moniker.
CraftBeer.com, the beer lover website published by the Brewers Association, today revealed a striking redesign to enhance the experience for its growing audience. With a brand new interface, the site features a fresh logo, offering a clearer brand identity, and creates a cleaner way to access the robust catalogue of resources via four distinct sections: Beer, Breweries, Food and News.
Founders Brewing — maker of the popular All Day IPA and coveted KBS brands — will expand distribution to the Pacific Northwest in 2017. The Grand Rapids, Michigan-based brewery announced Monday that it would extend its footprint to Washington, Oregon and Idaho through the Great Artisan Beverage network of wholesalers. “The Pacific Northwest has long… Read more »
As the air turns cooler and days become shorter, cozying up next to the fire with a smooth and rich winter beer sounds like the perfect ending to any day. With that in mind, Rusty Rail Brewing Co. recently released its winter seasonal, Snow Flyer H.C. Porter.
Urban Artifact, Cincinnati’s wild culture expert, is set to release the first canned beer offerings since opening as draft-only in April 2015. A can launch event in the brewery’s Northside taproom, located at 1660 Blue Rock Street, is set for December 9 at 4pm. The initial launch will include Finn (Berliner Pale Ale) and Sliderule (Chocolate Raspberry Gose).
This weekend, Drake’s Brewing Co. released its 2016 Jolly Rodger Ale. For more than two decades, Drake’s has stuck to a tradition of brewing a totally new beer every year for Jolly Rodger. Brewmaster John Gillooly describes this year’s version as a Transatlantic Winter Warmer.
Regional craft brewery Ale Asylum is poised to spread some holiday cheer by launching their first variety pack, Feliz Gravitas. This gravity-focused release features Off Switch, a Double IPA that debuted at their 2016 Ferment Dissent Imperial Stout Festival. The other two brands in the six-pack include Big Slick Stout and Mercy Grand Cru.
The high end beer segment is poised to grow by 170 million cases over the next two years, according to Constellation Brands executive vice president Paul Hetterich. Speaking to more than 200 beer industry professionals attending the Beer Marketer’s Insights winter seminar, Hetterich, as well as leaders from Anheuser-Busch InBev and MillerCoors, discussed the consumer shift toward high end products and their companies’ strategies for competing in that segment.
On Black Friday, Nantahala Brewing Company will release 22 ounce bottles of its next specialty beer, Midnight Topher, a stout infused with locally produced Tribal Grounds Coffee Roasters espresso beans. Created by Head Brewer Chris White, this espresso-style stout was inspired by White’s past work and his present career
We’ve come up with a new year-round beer that will see distribution in our 28 states starting this December! Frederick H. is a tart, wheat-based beer 100% fermented in American-made oak foeders.
