Craft beer industry news.
Colorado-based Paradox Beer Company produces original and rare beers which honor the uncertainty of nature bound with rigorous quality testing, yielding one-of-a-kind flavors that sets them apart from other beers. The rich mountain terroir has allowed Paradox to harvest, propagate and now inoculate their beers with their own house-grown Brettanomyces.
Craft Brew Alliance, Inc. (“CBA”) (Nasdaq: BREW), a leading craft brewing company, today announced that it was named “Craft Beer Company of the Year” by Hooters of America, a leading national restaurant chain with locations across the country. The award underscores CBA’s strong partnership with Hooters and specifically recognizes the successful launch of a special 2015 summer promotion featuring Kona Brewing Company’s Big Wave Golden Ale, one of the fastest-growing brands in the craft beer category.
Recently reborn as an “aggressively laid-back” beer company, Stony Creek Brewery is living up to the tagline by quietly scaling production to more than 10,000 barrels during its first 12 months since taking up residence in a newly constructed Branford, Conn. brewing facility. Originally formed in 2010 by Manny Rodriguez and Peggy Crowley, the wife of former Dichello Distributors co-owner Ed Crowley, Stony Creek first launched as a contract-produced craft brand focused on beers named after regional area codes.
Dale’s Pale Ale, Oskar Blues Brewery’s flagship brew and first American craft beer in a can, makes its second appearance of the season Friday night as a primary sponsor of Regan Smith and the JR Motorsports No. 7 Chevrolet in the NASCAR XFINITY Series race at Charlotte Motor Speedway (CMS).
Mad Anthony Brewing Company is excited to announce the release of their “Out of the Box” Series, dedicated to bringing a unique mix of Mad Anthony draft beer options straight to their consumers. This series will celebrate everything from seasonal madbrew offerings, to special brewers reserve batches; all produced in short runs for optimal freshness.
Heavy Seas Beer will soon welcome a brand new beer sampler, the Boatload IPA Sampler. This 12-pack collection of four different India Pale Ales will be available in November 2015 in all 18 states where Heavy Seas beer is distributed.
Learning Evolution and CM Profit Group have established a strategic partnership to develop a series of innovative and leading edge online sales leadership and sales coaching coursework modules and tools specifically for the beverage industry to help suppliers and distributors bring value to retailers.
SABMiller, the world’s second-largest beer company, this morning rejected a third takeover bid, worth $104 billion, from the larger Anheuser-Busch InBev saying that the offer “substantially undervalues” the company. After a meeting, SABMiller’s 16-member board, excluding three directors nominated by U.S. tobacco company Altria Group Inc., its largest shareholder, formally considered and rejected A-B InBev’s third proposal of 42.15 pounds per share in cash (USD $64.49)
Back for the cold(er) weather months, Stone Brewing Co. is releasing freshly brewed batches of Stone Coffee Milk Stout. While the recipe remains essentially the same, this year the bittersweet, creamy, coffee-laced stout has a slightly elevated alcohol content, ringing in at 5 percent alcohol by volume (ABV).
Two Roads is proud to announce its first ever brewing collaboration with friend and contract brewing partner- Evil Twin Brewing. The story of this particular collaboration begins with an unlikely expedition down a road less traveled.
Otter Creek Brewing yesterday broke ground on an expansion that will more than triple its annual production capacity, ultimately making it Vermont’s largest brewery by volume.
The Boynton-Beach based craft brewery Copperpoint Brewing has announced distribution plans, partnering with Cavalier Distributing as their distributor for south Florida, specifically Broward, Dade, and Palm Beach Counties.
Bear Republic Brewing Company® claimed a silver medal at the 2015 Great American Beer Festival (GABF) competition, receiving their twenty-second medal overall. Presented by the Brewers Association, GABF is the largest national beer competition that recognizes the most outstanding beers produced in the United States. The top three winners in each category were announced September 26 at the Great American Beer Festival awards ceremony held at the Colorado Convention Center in Denver, Colorado.
150 new jobs are to be based in a new state of the art craft brewery and visitor centre created by beer and cider business The Rye River Brewing Company in Celbridge, Co Kildare. The new jobs will be created over three years and along with the investment of €4m into the new plant and visitor centre will be worth an extra €12.5m to the local economy. The new positions will be spread across manufacturing, customer service, brewing, export, general operatives and management whilst up to 100 jobs will be generated in the construction of the new brewery plant and visitor centre which is hoped to open in late Spring 2016, subject to planning.
