Craft beer industry news.
Fall may be right around the corner, but for the crew at Diamond Knot Craft Brewing, the leaves may as well start falling and the crisp fall days begin. Actually, most Pacific Northwesterners would probably welcome a cool day or two with the recent heat.
Appalachian Mountain Brewery, Inc. (“AMB”) (OTC: HOPS) is proud to announce that it brought home three coveted medals, including one gold, from the 2015 U.S. Open Beer Championship, held earlier this month in Ohio.
Mission Brewery of San Diego is the proud recipient of two gold medals at the 2015 US Open Beer Championship. Over 4,000 beers were entered into the 2015 competition, and the gold medal for Hard Root Beer marks the first award for Mission Brewery’s hottest addition. Mission Brewery’s Hard Root Beer debuted this spring to overwhelming positive feedback as one of the only craft hard root beers on the market.
It took more than eight months, but Dogfish Head has finally found its new vice president of sales. The company today announced that Todd Bollig, who most recently spent 16 years with Constellation Brands, will fill the long-vacant position left behind by Adam Lambert, who departed the company last November to pursue a new opportunity with New Holland Brewing.
Yet another established craft brewery is setting up shop in Denver’s flourishing River North neighborhood. This time, it’s Great Divide, which is scheduled to officially open its ‘Barrel Bar,’ a 30 to 40-person taproom with patio space for a 100 more along the South Platte River, on July 31. But that’s just the start of the project.
Today, Anchor Brewing Company announces the release of the California Craft-Pack, a unique mixed 6-pack featuring two cans each of Anchor California Lager®, Liberty Ale®, and Anchor IPA™.
The U.S. beer industry contributed $253 billion to the American economy and supported 1.75 million jobs in 2014, according to the latest “Beer Serves America” report, jointly commissioned by the Beer Institute and the National Beer Wholesalers Association. Findings from the study, which is released every two years, will be presented to Hill staffers, policy makers and members of the press during a Congressional briefing later this afternoon.
Fresh off the line from the new Cork & Cage series, SweetWater is waxing poetic with The Pit & The Pendulum, a peachy take on Belgian-style brew that flows into bottle shops and top beer joints this week. The Pit & The Pendulum is a perfect balance of three distinct divergences: Belgian ale yeast, Brettanomyces (a strain of yeast known to impart complexity, funkiness and dryness) and freshly puréed peaches, making for a tasty trifecta
One of Oregon’s top beer distributors is investing behind its portfolio of craft offerings. Oregon City’s General Distributors Inc., a 3 million case-per-year outfit that delivers beer to 11 counties in the greater Portland area, last week announced plans to launch a dedicated “craft & specialty team” that will “position the company for future growth and success.”
Local craft brewery Bryn Mawr Brewing Co. has announced the signing of its 10-year lease in the @Glenwood development located at 225 Thomas Ave. N in the Bryn Mawr neighborhood of Minneapolis.
For the first time ever, the Marin Brewing Company has expanded distribution across the United States of our best-selling flagship beer, Mt. Tam Pale Ale. The popular brew is now available canned in stores around the country.
Deep within their towers of aging barrels, River North’s brewers uncovered a hidden gem.
Craft beer volume is up 16 percent at the midway point of 2015, according to a recent Brewers Association (BA) report. Year-to-date through the end of June, U.S. craft brewers sold approximately 12.2 million barrels of beer, per the BA’s data, up from 10.6 million barrels sold during the same period in 2014.
Prairie Capital Advisors Inc., a leading corporate finance advisory and investment banking firm, acted as exclusive financial advisor to the ESOP Trustee, GreatBanc Trust Company, in the transaction for Odell Brewing Company to become 19% employee owned. Prairie provided services which included valuation, feasibility and a fairness opinion for the transaction. Prairie is proud to be part of such an elite transaction team with Lathrop & Gage LLP and GreatBanc Trust Company.
