Craft beer industry news.
Heavy Seas Beer is excited to announce the release of a new seasonal beer this Spring, a “citrus IPA” named TropiCannon. The product will be available from April thru June in all 17 states where Heavy Seas beer is distributed. Heavy Seas Beer is also pleased to announce the release of a new year-round beer in 2016, Pounder Pils. This German-style Pilsner lager will be available starting in April 2016, in all 17 states where Heavy Seas Beer is distributed.
Upper Hand Brewery is excited to announce the upcoming release of its newest specialty beer, Double Ringer, a Double India Pale Ale (IPA). Meant to celebrate the spring thaw in Michigan’s Upper Peninsula, Double Ringer is the ninth beer to be released since Upper Hand opened its doors in November 2014, including four year-round offerings.
Scottish independent brewer Innis & Gunn has announced the appointment of Neil Innis Sharp as General Manager – USA. The Edinburgh based company has maintained a relationship with Sharp, brother of Innis & Gunn’s Founder & Master Brewer, Dougal Gunn Sharp, since 2007 when he was instrumental in the brand’s launch and early success in its largest export market, Canada.
It took 18 months, but Brew Hub has finally selected a site for its second “partner” brewing facility. According to the St. Louis Post-Dispatch, Brew Hub’s development partner, Green Street, has a “letter of intent to acquire a 7-acre property at the southwest corner of Chesterfield Airport Road and Spirit of St. Louis Boulevard.”
Hold on to your pints — Cape May Brewing Company is releasing five new beers this month.
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.
