Craft beer industry news.
Creature Comforts Brewing Company will bring back seasonal American Pale Ale, Automatic, on draft as well as package it in cans for the first time in mid-June. Automatic serves as another hop-forward, yet balanced beer within the brewery’s lineup.
Sonoma Cider, the award-winning producer of such innovative hard ciders as the The Hatchet, The Pitchfork, The Anvil, and The Washboard, is adding a new limited run flavor to its portfolio, The Wimble, marking the company’s second cider to be available in a can. Set to launch this June, this cider is a twist on Gose – an old German-style beer that is traditionally sour and briny – with a lingering, and addicting, harmonic tartness from notes of rhubarb and apple.
After a lengthy courtship, Russian River Brewing Company and Firestone Walker Brewing Company announced today the imminent arrival of STiVO—an immaculately conceived mashup of their respective craft pilsners, STS and Pivo.
Upright Brewing is proud to announce the release of one of our most exciting projects yet — Oregon Native. This barrel fermented wild ale is a collaboration with Derek Einberger, a winemaker at Patton Valley Vineyards and the beer uses their pinot noir grapes to blend the line between wine and beer.
Crisp and refreshing, the seasonal pale ale is brewed with citrus hops & dried lemon peel. And though it is inspired by Master Brewer Damian Brown’s years living in Germany drinking Radlers, it’s perfect for summer days closer to home – because real NYC fun is subway rides, not private jet rides away.
Small Town Brewery (“Small Town”) officially announced today that it will launch Not Your Father’s Vanilla Cream Ale, a creamy botanical craft beer brewed with Madagascar Vanilla, combining a lightly sweet savor with a smooth finish to create a refreshing beer. The new brew is expected to begin hitting store shelves in June.
In this edition of the BevNET Podcast, Chris Furnari, the editor of Brewbound, joins us to discuss his takeaways from the massive, 14,000-attendee Craft Brewers Conference and Brew Expo America, including some of the factors that are enabling massive growth in the craft beer category.
Twisted Pine Brewing Company is getting out of the distribution business. The company today announced plans to cease off-site sales and instead focus on being a leading Colorado brewpub. Restricting the brand’s availability almost exclusively to the Twisted Pine Ale House, the 21-year old Boulder-based brewery has already started parting ways with wholesalers outside of Colorado and will ultimately limit any off-site sales to a few select retailers within its home state.
Hard Frescos is available in 16-ounce cans or 4-packs of 12-ounce bottles in retailers throughout the Phoenix and Scottsdale areas of Arizona, San Francisco, Southern California, and Northern California areas, with distribution expanding every day.
Officials from the United States Department of Justice are investigating Anheuser-Busch InBev over a controversial incentive plan aimed at rewarding beer wholesalers who focus on selling products from the world’s largest beer maker, according to the Reuters news agency. At the crux of the DOJ probe are anticompetitive concerns over A-B InBev’s Voluntary Anheuser-Busch Incentive For Performance (VAIP) program.
Fieldwork Brewing Company will open a taproom in Oxbow Public Market’s main market hall, offering a unique tasting experience of a rotating selection of craft beers produced at its Berkeley, California brewery. Fieldwork Brewing Company is known for the range and quality of its beers, and visitors to the Oxbow Taproom can expect an ever changing tap list of fresh releases to enjoy by sampler flight, beer by the glass, and fresh beer filled to go in growlers and Crowler cans.
Epic Brewing is pleased to announce its further partnership with Atlantic Importing and Distributing Co. who will now be distributing in Rhode Island.
Ballast Point today confirmed plans to purchase a massive 259,000 sq. ft. building in Botetourt County, Virginia, where it will build its first East Coast production facility. According to a press release from the office of Virginia Gov. Terry McAuliffe, the company plans to spend $48 million to build the new outpost.
Summit Brewing today announced it has hired former J.J. Taylor Minnesota president Mike Bamonti as its new chief sales officer. Prior to joining Summit, Bamonti served as J.J. Taylor’s general manager for 12 years and helped oversee that company’s acquisitions of Day Distributing Co. in 2015 and Chisago Lakes Distributing in 2012.
