Craft beer industry news.
Laurelwood Brewing Co. has expanded its seasonal six-pack offerings with Portlandia Pils. The pilsner will be available for the summer alongside Laurelwood’s popular year-round offerings: Workhorse IPA, Free Range Red, and Red Elephant India Red Ale (IRA). In previous years, Laurelwood Brewing Co.’s Portlandia Pils has been released seasonally in 22 oz bottles.
Around this time last month, we were busy hosting nearly 250 beer industry professionals at the Brewbound Session in Brooklyn. Held on June 9 at the Liberty Warehouse in Red Hook, the summer 2016 edition of our bi-annual business conference featured a variety of presentations from craft entrepreneurs and panel discussions with notable industry experts.
Hoping to emulate the early success of his San Diego-based beer company Saint Archer Brewing, which was purchased by MillerCoors last September, entrepreneur Josh Landan is doubling down on the beverage business. Landan, together with current Saint Archer vice president Jeff Hansson, is preparing to launch Villager Goods, a line of food and beverage products backed by many of the same action sports figures who initially funded Saint Archer.
Shmaltz Brewing Company is thrilled to announce its collaboration with a new Missouri distributor, Artisans Cellar. The latest addition to Shmaltz’s team of distributors across the country, Artisans Cellar enhances the regional retail presence and draft availability of the award-winning craft beer line
When are you going to put Bodhi in bottles?” might be the most often-asked question of Columbus Brewing Company’s brewer and co-owner, Eric Bean about his GABF award-winning double IPA. Now that the brewery is settled into its new home on the west side of Columbus, production capacity has increased 200% and the new bottling line is up and running, the stars have aligned for CBC consumer’s dreams to become reality: Bodhi will be bottled for the first time in the company’s history.
Blackberry Farm Brewery’s native family of ales features a wide range of styles and flavors that share one extraordinary, common component: native wild yeasts harvested from across Blackberry Farm’s 4,200 protected acres at the edge of the Great Smoky Mountains. These yeast strains have been carefully gathered and maintained for Blackberry Farm Brewery by South Yeast Labs and reflect the local micro-flora unique to Blackberry Farm’s location in the mountains of East Tennessee.
Peak Organic Brewing Co. is releasing two new iterations of their flagship Peak IPA, elevating the pine and citrus characteristics to their most flavorful levels yet. Evergreen IPA & Crush IPA each begin with the bright, floral characteristics of Peak IPA, but use brand new blends that are designed to highlight two ends of the hop spectrum – pine and citrus.
63 percent of all beer sold on draft in Oregon last year was made by an in-state brewery, according to a new report from the Oregon Brewers Guild. The non-profit trade association last week reported that Oregon residents drank more than 650,000 barrels of local beer in 2015, more than 22 percent of all beer consumed in the state.
Southern Glazer’s Wine and Spirits, LLC (“Southern Glazer’s”) today announced the completion of the business combination between Southern Wine & Spirits of America, Inc. (“Southern”) and Glazer’s, Inc. (“Glazer’s”), forming Southern Glazer’s. Southern and Glazer’s announced the signing of a definitive agreement to combine their businesses on January 11, 2016.
Breakthru Beverage, which was formed after Wirtz Beverage Group and Charmer Sunbelt Group merged last October, yesterday announced that it had acquired Alliance Beverage Distributing Company in Arizona.
Boulevard Brewing today announced plans to expand its sales footprint, adding new distribution in Delaware, Connecticut and Pennsylvania. Boulevard beers will begin hitting the new markets in late July, the company said.
Branchline Brewing Company is excited to announce their expansion with the purchase of a new canning line. This new equipment will allow the company to produce and package more canned beer for thirsty customers across the Lone Star State. The new equipment comes used from Latitude 42 Brewing Company in Portage, Michigan and is manufactured by Cask Equipment.
Jack’s Abby Craft Lagers is set to release a collaboration brew, Beer Geek Helles, with New England Brewing Company the weekend of July 15th 2016. The beer will be available on draft and in four packs of 16 oz cans throughout Massachusetts, Connecticut, and parts of New York. The release will be celebrated with multiple events in Massachusetts, Connecticut, and New York.
When looking for a distributor, Craig and Cheryl took a lot of time to find the right fit. “Brown’s focus on craft and small breweries matches really well with what we are trying to do.” FKBC will find a unique place within the Brown portfolio as they are producing 100% of their beer, right in Islamorada.
