Craft beer industry news.
As of March 21st, specialized craft beer distributor Craft Beer Guild (CBG) will begin distributing Wolf Creek’s year-round favorites, seasonals, and specialties to Orange County, Los Angeles County, San Bernardino County, Riverside County, Ventura County, and Santa Barbara County.
Drafting Table Brewing Company proudly announces its Grand Opening planned for Saturday, March 26, 2016 from 12:00 noon to 12:00 midnight. Eight masterfully crafted beers will be on tap for the event, and the Wixom Downtown Development Authority will be assisting with the event and parking.
Grayton Beer Company is finalizing a staggering expansion. The locally owned and operated brewery recently announced it is increasing the current brewing capacity to meet the demands of their distribution reach. The brewery, located in South Walton County, expanded its production capacity with the addition of four 120-barrel fermenters and one 275-barrel brite tank.
Breckenridge Brewery and Starr Hill Brewery are running it back with their second collaborative beer project. Whiteout, an imperial white IPA brewed with lemongrass from Virginia, debuts at Denver’s Collaboration Fest on Saturday, March 19th.
As sales of Mexican imports continue to grow, Anheuser-Busch InBev today announced plans to bring another label from south of the border into select U.S. markets. In a press release, A-B InBev said it would begin rolling out Estrella Jalisco, a light-flavored 4.5 percent ABV pilsner originally brewed in the city of Guadalajara, across 10 states this month.
Odell Brewing will release its third can offering – Loose Leaf Session Ale. The brewery’s new state of the art canning line will package around 310 cans per minute.
Saint Arnold Brewing Co., the oldest craft brewery in Texas, today releases Saint Arnold Bishop’s Barrel No. 13, the latest offering from the brewery’s barrel aging program. Saint Arnold Bishop’s Barrel No. 13 is a Belgian Quadrupel, originally released three years ago as Saint Arnold Divine Reserve No. 13, that has been aged for 13 months in bourbon barrels from Woodford Reserve.
Mayflower Brewing Company, America’s Hometown brewery, is pleased to announce that we are shifting the majority of our packaging from bottles to cans. Starting in April, all of our year-round and seasonal beers will be packaged in 12 oz. cans, rather than bottles. The only exception to this switch will be Mayflower IPA, which we will continue to package in bottles, as well as cans, as long as we find consumer demand for the bottles. In addition, we will continue to package our Cooper’s Series limited edition beers in bottles.
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Bell’s Brewery is proud to announce a new addition to its specialty packaging lineup this year. Bell’s Quinannan Falls Special Lager Beer (6.3% ABV) will debut in 12 oz. cans, packaged in six-packs, this June.
The U.S. Food and Drug Administration (FDA) this week announced plans to delay enforcement of its new menu-labeling regulations until 2017. In a statement, Dr. Susan Mayne, who joined the FDA last January as the new director of the Center for Food Safety and Applied Nutrition, said the organization opted to move enforcement from December 1, 2016, to “the date that is one year after it issues final, Level 1 guidance,” as a result of language in the omnibus appropriations bill enacted by Congress on December 18, 2015.
MillerCoors is staying in Chicago. In a note sent to employees yesterday, CEO Gavin Hattersley said the company would keep its name, and its headquarters in Chicago, after Molson Coors acquires the 58 percent stake in the joint venture with SABMiller it does not already own.
Schramm’s Mead, the winner of the 2015 RateBeer “#1 Meadery in the World,” has signed a distribution agreement with Cavalier Distributing. The agreement will allow Cavalier to sell Schramm’s meads to retailers throughout the entire state of Ohio immediately. This is Schramm’s Mead’s first distribution agreement outside their home state of Michigan.
It’s east of the Cascades meets west on the brew deck! Last month, Yakima’s Bale Breaker Brewing Company traveled to Seattle’s Reuben’s Brews to create brewing magic. The result? Collabeeration India Pale Lager (IPL), which makes its debut on Tuesday, March 22 in the Reuben’s Brews taproom at 5010 14th Ave NW in Seattle.
