Craft beer industry news.
The U.S. Department of Health and Human Services along with the U.S. Department of Agriculture yesterday released the 2015 Dietary Guidelines for Americans. The guidelines, issued every five years, are “designed to help Americans eat a healthier diet,” and could help shape future federal nutrition policies.
Only eight days into 2016 and already there’s an onslaught of brewery expansions to report. On the heels of a year in which craft volume sales grew more than 18 percent, according to research firm IRI Worldwide, at least eight notable U.S. breweries have announced plans to scale their operations, in some cases making large multi-million dollar bets on the rising consumer demand for craft beer.
MadTree Brewing announced this week that it is beginning work on a new $18M production brewery, taproom, and event center in the Cincinnati neighborhood of Oakley, about one mile away from its current location. They will renovate the former RockTenn building, an obsolete brownfield manufacturing facility, located at 3301 Madison Avenue allowing them to more than quadruple their production. The new brewery and taproom will serve as an anchor for the Oakley business district.
We are very excited to announce that Jester King has purchased fifty-eight acres of beautiful Hill Country land surrounding the brewery! Our plan is to conserve the natural beauty of the land, so as to prevent it from ever becoming yet another residential subdivision, while at the same time working with our new natural surroundings to make Jester King one of the world’s leading destinations for artisan foods, beverages, goods, and all things fermentation.
In conjunction with the Buncombe County Commission, Asheville City Council, and the Economic Development Coalition for Asheville-Buncombe County (EDC), Burial Beer Co. announced today it will create 17 new jobs and invest $1.8 million for its second brewing facility and tasting room in Asheville.
Brewery Ommegang in Cooperstown, NY is beginning the New Year with a cherry bomb bang by bringing tart/sweet newcomer Rosetta Kriek to the market on draft. Rosetta in bottles, which launched October 2015, has elicited a very positive response from craft consumers and retailers alike. The arrival of draft will bring the unique ale to fresh assemblies of beer lovers nationwide.
Hopworks Urban Brewery (HUB) today announced the release of Organic El Dorado Single Hop IPX. The beer is the ninth bottled release in HUB’s IPX Single Hop Ale Series, providing drinkers an educational celebration of hops for more than three years. El Dorado IPX is available on tap and in 22oz bottles in both Hopworks’ pubs and throughout the Northwest.
Hi-Wire Brewing is set to release the newest beer in its Lager Seasonal Series, Enchanter Baltic Porter. The third installment in this series, this beer will hit shelves early 2106 in 6-packs and on draft.
Oskar Blues Brewery is grabbing 2016 by the horns with the re-release of one of its core brews, Deviant Dale’s IPA (8% ABV, 85 IBUs). Previously available year-round, this dry-hopped behemoth will now be available only seasonally and in limited release, so get it while you CAN.
The American Malting Barley Association, Inc. (AMBA) provides growers with an annual list of malting barley varieties that it’s members are most interested in for the upcoming growing season. AMBA is a nonprofit trade association of 82 US malting, brewing and distilling companies that provide funding for the development of new barley varieties and evaluate new selections for their suitably in the US.
In four short years, Red Hare Brewing Company has gone from the kitchen stove to a newly expanded 17,000 square foot brewery in Marietta, GA. At their current production, Red Hare has become the third largest craft brewery in Georgia and in the top seven percent of the 4,000+ craft breweries in the United States today, according to the Brewers Association.
Another year of double-digit craft beer growth is in the books. According market research firm IRI Worldwide, craft volume sales in key U.S. retail channels grew 18.8 percent in 2015 while dollar sales grew 23.4 percent, to more than $2.9 billion. Total category-wide beer sales, meanwhile, were up just 2 percent in 2015 while total MULC dollar sales eclipsed $33 billion, according to the firm.
After three years with Golden Road Brewing, brewmaster Jesse Houck has departed the company and accepted a new position as Maui Brewing Company’s director of brewery operations, Brewbound has learned. The news comes less than four months after it was announced that Anheuser-Busch InBev would purchase the fast-growing Los Angeles craft brewery.
Jack’s Abby Brewing is pleased to announce that, starting in April of 2016, the Framingham, MA based brewery’s beer will be available in bars and restaurants throughout Westchester County and New York City. Jack’s Abby will be expanding their distribution footprint with Remarkable Liquids. Excluding areas on Long Island, Remarkable Liquids currently distributes Jack’s Abby in all other counties in the state of New York.
