News

Deschutes Brewery today announced it has assigned primary distribution for Northwestern Pennsylvania starting April 1st with Penn Beer Company. This news comes one week after the brewery announced its Michigan expansion plans.

Family owned and operated Blake’s Hard Cider Co. is making their way across the Midwest. The Michigan-based craft cidery today announced plans to enter Kentucky in April & Chicago by June after opening up Ohio, Indiana, parts of Illinois, Wisconsin, and parts of North Carolina over the last 2 months. These moves will give Blake’s Hard Cider 7 states of distribution, with no signs of slowing down. Quickly becoming one of the nations fastest growing craft hard cider companies; nipping at the heals of the larger national cider brands.

Stony Creek Brewery is pleased to announce plans to expand distribution into Massachusetts. The Connecticut based brewery will be available in greater Boston and shoreline MA in March via Horizon Beverage. Full statewide coverage will commence in April through the addition of Quality Beverage, Williams Distributing and Girardi Distributors.

Mother Road Brewing Company is pleased to announce a new point person for its Arizona and New Mexico sales. Caleigh Snyder was hired on as Brewhouse Ambassador in January after spending a year and a half interning at the brewery and then heading up Mother Road’s Flagstaff sales.

Dominion’s Spring seasonal, Cherry Blossom Lager, returns for its 4th year in a row commemorating the annual National Cherry Blossom Festival in Washington, D.C. From March 20th to April 17th, the Cherry Blossom Festival pays tribute to “traditional and contemporary arts and culture, natural beauty, and community spirit.” Cherry Blossom Lager was added to the seasonal line-up in 2013 and continues to be a local favorite

Today, we’re releasing Rhine Cabal, a Sour Ale with New York State Riesling grape juice as our second beer in the ultra-rare Cellar Vault Series. Following the overwhelming response to the limited release of Four Headed Wooly Mammoth, a massive 11% ABV Belgian Quad, our second Cellar Vault offering is taking a different approach. This 5.5% ABV Sour Ale is crisp, tart and reminiscent of the fine Riesling wines coming from the Finger Lakes region in New York. For this hybrid brew, the company sourced Riesling grape juice from Ventosa Vineyards Estate Winery in Geneva, NY on the northern tip of Seneca Lake, the largest of central NY’s Finger Lakes.

Michigan’s Perrin Brewing plans to take the first step towards out-of-state distribution. Shipments of Perrin beer are expected to hit stores in Colorado late March/early April.

Ibotta, the leading mobile shopping app that pays consumers cash back on their everyday purchases, today announced a preferred partnership with Anheuser-Busch to offer beer shoppers cash-back rebates on Anheuser-Busch products through the Ibotta app. The partnership, which runs through February 2018, will provide Ibotta shoppers over the age of 21 with special offers on the sale of beer at convenience, grocery and liquor stores, as well as bars and restaurants where legally permitted across the country.

Backlash Beer Company is excited to announce a partnership with Foolproof Brewing (Pawtucket, RI) to bring its two flagship offerings, Ricochet and Groundswell, into 16oz cans.”We’ve had our sights set on canning for a while but as a contract brand, it’s really important to find the right partnership to make the whole thing work. We’re really fond of the folks at Foolproof and are thrilled to be working with them. Better late than never, right?” says founder Helder Pimentel.

Do you enjoy craft beer in cans? Is a 12-pack too much? Now you can have it both ways with many of Capital Brewery’s award winning beers in 6 Pack cartons! Capital Wisconsin Amber, Maibock, Supper Club, Ghost Ship, and Mutiny IPA are now available in both 12 pack cans and 6 pack cans.

Our spring seasonal, Cultivator Helles Bock, is back. Emerging from springtime’s fertile ground, Cultivator celebrates the start of hop-growing season as sprawling fields of hop rhizomes climb and tether to hop bines. This spring bock delivers hints of toasted grains, fresh baked bread, and delicate floral hops.

Southern Tier Brewing Co. announces today that beginning March 1, 2016 it will begin a new partnership with the MillerCoors distribution network in Ohio.

The Half Moon Bay Brewing Company, a popular Coastside destination best known for its award-winning, house-brewed beer, sustainable seafood, live music and an expansive, dog-friendly patio, welcomes the spring season with five new beers, a month-long beer and grilled cheese pairing series and St. Patrick’s Day specials, as well as a new and improved Hop Trotter, a custom beer catering trailer.

2016 marks the 20-year anniversary of San Francisco’s oldest brewery-restaurant ThirstyBear Organic Brewery. In 1996, when ThirstyBear was established, the craft beer landscape was quite the contrast to the booming beer scene that’s now taking shape in San Francisco with nearly 30 breweries currently in business. Craft beer sales were barely approaching 1% of the overall beer market. Today, craft beer is over 11% of total beer sales with projected sales for 2020 pushing 20%. ThirstyBear proudly enters its third decade of brewing alongside its many Bay Area contemporaries, who collectively have established Northern California as one of the top beer destinations in the world.