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Great South Bay Brewery officially brings back, by popular demand, their exclusive Marauder Bourbon Barrel-Aged Scotch Ale for a limited time.

Widmer Brothers Brewing today announced the last two beers in the 30 Beers for 30 Years Series: Kill Devil Brown Ale, which represents the year 2012, and Massive Upheaval IPA, representing 2013 in the brewery’s 30-year history. The two beers mark the conclusion of the ambitious year-long small batch series.

Surf Brewery, a small commercial craft brewery, open since 2011, with an onsite tasting room and homebrew shop, announced that they are releasing the second in their Seasonal American Wheat series for 2015, called Wahine™, and named after the term used for a surf chick. Certainly not a ‘chick’ beer, Strawberry Wahine™ Wheat Ale has a slight fruity flavor in a refreshing lighter beer at 5% ABV, 16 IBU and 4.5 SRM.

After the harshest winter since, well, last winter, Two Roads is happy to announce that three beers meant for spring and summer are returning to accompany the long awaited warming temperatures.

B Lab has named New Belgium Brewing to its fourth annual ‘B Corp Best for the Environment’ list for creating the most positive overall environmental impact. The B Corp ‘Best for the Environment’ list honors hundreds of businesses that earned an environmental impact score in the top 10 percent of all Certified B Corporations on the B Impact Assessment, a rigorous and comprehensive assessment of a company’s impact on its workers, community, and the environment.

Avery Brewing has one of the oldest craft beer barrel-aging programs in the country. Over the past decade, they have created a wide variety of innovative projects including beers aged in rum barrels, beers aged in Madeira barrels, and what they call “beer-grape hybrids” in which a portion of the fermentables are wine grapes. Since moving into their new brewery earlier this year, Avery’s brewers now have the capacity to experiment with these projects at the level they’ve always dreamed of, and they’re thrilled to be creating enough barrel-aged beers that sour beer fans across the country can finally get a taste.

Featuring the best local craft beers and one of the widest selections of brews from around the globe, World of Beer Franchising, Inc., (WOB) is opening its third tavern in New York’s Chelsea neighborhood this spring at 320 8th Avenue, New York, NY. WOB offers guests over 500 bottles and 50 rotating taps inviting guests into a journey to discover the best in local and international beers. The rapidly expanding tavern franchise currently operates nearly 70 taverns in 20 states. This tavern will employ about 60 people.

Tommyknocker Brewery & Pub, maker of numerous award-winning American craft ales and lagers has partnered with Finnish investor group Captol Invest to launch The Tommyknocker Craft Beer Bar in a fashionable section of downtown Helsinki.

Woodchuck® Hard Cider’s latest creation, Gumption, will soon be available on tap across the US. Gumption continues Woodchuck’s history of authenticity and handcrafting the finest ciders using premium ingredients. When Woodchuck introduced the U.S. market to craft cider 24 years ago, it took gumption to follow their own path. Craft cider caught on, and today, Woodchuck continues to lead the craft cider industry, with a passionate focus on innovation, quality and its Vermont roots.

JR Motorsports and Dale’s Pale Ale have agreed to a multifaceted partnership, general manager Kelley Earnhardt Miller announced today. The first craft beer to be featured in a can, Dale’s Pale Ale will sponsor Regan Smith and the No. 7 Chevrolet in the NASCAR XFINITY Series race at Charlotte Motor Speedway (Oct. 9). Additionally, Dale’s Pale Ale is named the presenting sponsor of Smith’s JR Motorsports Upfront podcast on Dirty Mo Radio.

Regional Craft Brewery Ale Asylum is gearing up to release canned product into the market and has chosen Earth Day to celebrate their recent solar panel installation with a fundraising event that will benefit RENEW Wisconsin. Starting the week of April 20, Ale Asylum will be releasing Hopalicious, Bedlam!, Demento and Unshadowed 12 oz. cans in 12-pack packages into their Wisconsin and Illinois markets.

The Brewers Association (BA)—the not-for-profit trade group representing America’s small and independent craft brewers—has concluded the 32th edition of the Craft Brewers Conference & BrewExpo America® (CBC) in Portland, Oregon.

Upland Brewing Co. today announced that Infinite Wisdom Belgian Tripel will be available on May 1st in 4 packs and on draught. It will be available on draught at all Upland locations May 8th.