Craft beer industry news.
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.
Shmaltz Brewing Company saddles up for a second year in a row to release its precious and vibrant She’Brew Beer Triple IPA in celebration of International Women’s Collaboration Brew Day. For the 2016 batch, the Sisters of Shmaltz came together from literally far and wide — South Carolina, Rochester, Syracuse, retail, wholesale, journalism, sales and staff — to cook up their second annual ode to the goddess of hops.
Atwater, together with Flemish Fox Brewery & Craftworks, a soon-to-launch beer company founded by Christine Celis of “Celis Beer” fame, jointly formed a new company and will collaboratively construct a 27,000 sq. ft. facility capable of producing upwards of 60,000 barrels per year. A yet-to-be-named joint entity will own the real estate and the brewery assets.
We’re excited to announce our newest year round beer, Sound Czech Pils. This Czech Style Pilsner was originally part of the Georgia Theater Session Series back in 2010. The Pils was one of four beers that was released as part of the fundraising effort to rebuild the Theatre after a fire destroyed the Athens landmark.
In the hub of North Carolina’s craft beer industry, one brewery is growing like a weed. Asheville-based Wicked Weed Brewing today announced it would build another production facility this summer, its fourth brewery space in as many years. Located on 17 acres in South Asheville, the new 57,000 sq. ft. facility will be entirely devoted to the production of sour, farmhouse, and wild-fermented beers — style categories that Wicked Weed has increasingly focused on in recent years.
Brew Hub, a company led by a team of beer industry executives and craft-brewing experts, has signed an agreement with Palmetto Brewing Company that will allow the Charleston, South Carolina-based craft brewer to immediately increase production and introduce its first line of canned beers.
Perrin Brewing is set to release their award winning Vietnamese Imperial Porter “No Rules” on Saturday, March 26th, at the “No Rules Boondoggle” taking place in the Perrin Pub. “No Rules” will be released in 22oz bottles and on draft. Both bottle and draft selections will be offered to the public at Perrin Brewing, Saturday, March 26th starting at 11am.
Ska just released a new mixed-12 pack offering! The Hoptions box contains three of Ska’s popular IPAs: Ska just released a new mixed-12 pack offering! The Hoptions box contains three of Ska’s popular IPAs: Decadent Imperial IPA; Rudie Session IPA; Modus Hoperani IPA.
Appalachian Mountain Brewery, Inc. (“AMB”) (OTC:HOPS) announces the release of its financial results for year ending December 31, 2015.
Red Hare SPF 50/50 is a refreshing blend of the brewery’s top selling Gangway IPA and its house-brewed sparkling grapefruit soda, creating the world’s first India Pale Radler (IPR). Traditionally, European radlers combine a lighter style beer with lemonade to produce a 2-3% alcohol brew, prefect for the warmer months. Red Hare is the first brewery to take a unique twist on the radler concept by using their higher gravity, multi-hopped India Pale Ale spun with their sweet grapefruit soda.
