Craft beer industry news.
Using the fresh aroma of the spring landscape as inspiration, New Belgium Brewing’s Botanical Imperial IPA uses a blast of essential oils from backyard botanicals. Basil, sage and juniper help create the freshest IPA around, with Bravo, Cascade, Sterling, and Willamette hop varieties delivering a potent hop punch.
s the fifty-barrel system is set to come online in a month, Ordnance Brewing is expanding its start up distribution discussions. The brewery is currently in conversation with distributors in Oregon, Washington, Alaska, Idaho, Montana and North Dakota.
Total craft growth slowed in 2015 as U.S. craft brewers grew volumes by 13 percent and retail dollars by 16 percent last year, according to new data compiled by trade group The Brewers Association (BA). In its annual report on industry-wide growth, the BA said more than 4,250 small and independent U.S. brewers collectively produced about 24.5 million barrels of beer in 2015.
After much-anticipation, Bend, Oregon’s Deschutes Brewery today announced plans to build a second commercial brewing facility in Roanoke, Virginia. The company, which brewed a majority of the 340,000 barrels it produced in 2015 out of a large brewery in Bend, Ore., doesn’t plan to begin construction on the new east coast location until 2019.
Pottsville, Penn.-based D.G. Yuengling & Son, Inc. today unveiled its new “Respect. It’s Earned.” campaign, which includes print, digital, and TV marketing as well as retail-specific promotions. Running throughout the company’s 18-state footprint, the new campaign is the largest in the brewery’s history and builds on previous messaging that also touted the company’s heritage and emphasized its flagship Lager.
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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