Craft beer industry news.
We’re now mere days removed from the takeover of Portland, Ore. by more than 10,000 beer industry professionals, all coming from far and wide for the Brewers Association’s annual Craft Brewers Conference. Inside the Oregon Convention Center next week, attendees will find some of the country’s preeminent industry advocates across the three tiers sharing their wisdom and trying to make sense of this booming trade from hop to truck to glass.
The established craft breweries of the 90s face this dilemma on a daily basis. With new breweries entering the space every day and consumer preferences changing faster than a rotating draft line, older beer companies that aren’t evolving risk losing the interest of today’s promiscuous craft drinker. Thus change has come to Michigan’s New Holland Brewing and after 18 years, the company is making some dramatic alterations to the its flagship IPA and its overall go-to-market strategies.
Sun King Brewing has announced plans to open a small taproom and brewery in Fishers, Ind. this summer about a half mile away from where the company eventually plans to build out a larger scale production facility. Construction is currently underway on the 6,000 sq. ft. space inside a shopping center, which the company said would be complete with a 3-barrel brewing system, taproom and event space for community and private events by this June.
Springtime in the South means three things: baseball, shooting the Hooch and SweetWater 420 Fest. With 420 Fest returning for its 11th year this April, the brewery is rolling out a perfect addition to any outdoor activity – 420 Fest Double IPA.
Deschutes Brewery will expand its existing partnership with West Side Beer Distributing, and Deschutes beers – including Mirror Pond Pale Ale, Black Butte Porter, Fresh Squeezed IPA and the seasonal Twilight Summer Ale – will be available on draft throughout Detroit’s Wayne County beginning the first of June. Packaged product is expected to be available later in the fall.
As one of America’s all-time favorite pastimes begins another season, it seems appropriate that a local Houston brewery that prides itself on being the craft beer for the home team would be launching into a new season of its own. Houston-based 8th Wonder Brewery has officially signed a distribution deal that will expand its reach in the Houston market beginning April 27.
This years batch of hop rhizomes from Piedmont Hops are set to arrive in mid April. The brewery has started accepting requests for rhizomes in hopes that successful yields will be returned to the brewery to be included in their fall release of RVA IPA.
Founders Brewing Co. announced today that they plan to host Founders Fest 2015 on the streets of downtown Grand Rapids once again, from 3-11pm on Saturday, June 20. This is the brewery’s eighth annual outdoor festival celebrating two of the things they love most: beer and music. Founders is expecting 6000+ beer and music lovers to gather on Grandville Avenue between Cherry and Bartlett for the festivities.
In an effort to diversity its portfolio of beverage offerings, American Brewing, a Washington-based, publicly traded craft beer company, has announced the acquisition a fast-growing kombucha brand. As reported earlier this week by BevNET (the sister site of Brewbound), the brewery purchased Búcha, a brand of certified organic sparkling kombucha drinks, from B&R Liquid Adventure, LLC for a combination of $260,000 cash, a $140,000 note payable and $500,000 in American Brewing restricted stock.
FCB (Fort Collins Brewery) is excited to release its summer seasonals, Major Tom’s Pomegranate Wheat and Hoptitude Imperial India Pale Ale on Friday. In FCB’s year of rebranding, both brews saw recipe adjustments:
Last July, when Harpoon Brewery co-founder Rich Doyle announced he would step down as CEO and sell his interest in a beer company he’d helped to build over 28 years, many in the space wondered what his next move would be. Less than nine months later, Doyle’s future in beer is much more clear.
Fireman’s Brew, a Los Angeles-based craft beer company founded by two firefighters, today announced a partnership with Mountaineer Craft Alliance to distribute its award-winning beers throughout West Virginia.
Beginning April 15th, 2015 OvalOptions for Conflict Management will offer its Brewery Mediation Network (BMN) service in areas nation-wide. The program will help connect craft breweries with local providers of mediation, facilitation and associated services to assist in resolving costly disputes, most noticeably those involving trademark
The Brewers Association (BA), the not-for-profit trade group dedicated to promoting and protecting America’s small and independent craft brewers, released its annual 2015 Beer Style Guidelines. Put together yearly by the Brewers Association, these guidelines serve as a reference tool for beer experts and judges, highlighting various beer styles.
