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Perrin Brewing Installs New Canning Line

Perrin Brewing Company has installed a Cask Brewing Systems canning line. Heavy hitters from Cask Brewing Systems (Mike Symcox) and Mumm Products (Mike Burns) came out to Perrin to personally oversee the installation of the canning line.

Andrews Distributing to Sell Coney Island’s Hard Root Beer

Andrews Distributing is excited to announce a new partnership with Coney Island Brewing Company. Andrews is scheduled to begin distributing Coney Island’s Hard Root Beer in Dallas-Fort Worth and Corpus Christi in August.

Calagione: A-B Kicked the Tires

Calagione: A-B Kicked the Tires

When your brewery has experienced double-digit growth for the last 17 consecutive years, you’re bound to field a few offers. So it should come as no surprise, then, that the world’s largest brewery recently tried to arrange a formal sit down with one of craft’s most revered “indie” brewery owners: Dogfish Head founder Sam Calagione.

Sudwerk Releases Rye of the Lager

With craft beer shelves dominated by IPAs, some consumers are looking for something different. That’s why Sudwerk Brewing Co. created Rye of the Lager, an IPL it calls “a needle in the shelf stack.

Night Shift Expands Boston Area Facility

Night Shift Expands Boston Area Facility

As Night Shift Brewing continues to carve out its own niche in the Greater Boston craft beer scene, the brewery is spending much of its fourth year in operation expanding capacity and beautifying its facility.

Diamond Knot Releases Fog Bank Fall Ale

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 Medals at US Open Beer Championship

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 Takes Home Gold at US Open Beer Championship

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.

Dogfish Head Hires New VP of Sales

Dogfish Head Hires New VP of Sales

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.

Great Divide to Open Brewery in Emerging Denver Neighborhood

Great Divide to Open Brewery in Emerging Denver Neighborhood

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.

Anchor Releases California Craft Pack

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™.

Report: U.S. Beer Industry Generates $253 Billion in Economic Activity

Report: U.S. Beer Industry Generates $253 Billion in Economic Activity

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.

Sweetwater Brewing Releases ‘The Pit & The Pendulum’

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