Craft beer industry news.
Following another year of solid growth in 2014, in 2015 the Stevens Point Brewery will create more new jobs and invest $1.5 million in brewery renovations and upgrades to improve quality and help production keep up with consumer demand.
As we enter our 5th year of covering the rapidly evolving craft beer business, we thought it was time to hit the refresh button and give our website a facelift. With the newly redesigned Brewbound, our goal is to improve the reader experience and deliver a news platform more in line with our maturing brand, our core values and our growing audience. That means a website that peels back some of the unnecessary layers and places a greater emphasis on compelling and engaging news content.
Featured in this week’s edition of press clips: Boston Magazine suggests craft is moving on without Jim Koch; NPR tackles trend of trademark disputes; Gary Fish, Widmer Brothers opine on the state of the industry and New England Brewing apologizes for ‘Gandhi-Bot.’
A 10-year Diamond Knot veteran is filling a new set of boots these days in anticipation for the brewery’s expansion in 2015. With the plan to expand packaging in the new year, Brian Guerrant, who started as a server in DK’s flagship Brewery & Alehouse back in 2004, is ready to take on his new responsibilities as Production Manager, a new position at the brewery.
The patriarch of River North’s renowned series of barrel-aged Quadrupels, Whiskey Barrel Quandary, will return from its year-long sabbatical in just a few weeks’ time.
Starr Hill Brewery is ringing in the New Year with the launch of their limited-release Debut Series of 2015 and the introduction of its first beer, a Belgian Tripel.
To welcome the New Year, Oskar Blues will expand distribution throughout a number of untapped markets in both the Midwest and Northeast. The brewery began shipping its products this week from its flagship facility in Longmont, Colo. to Iowa, Nebraska and downstate Illinois. The brewery will also soon send beer from its second facility in Brevard, N.C. for distribution throughout Maine and Vermont.
Click Wholesale Distributing (Click) is excited to announce that effective as of January 2nd, 2015 it is now the exclusive distributor of Reuben’s Brews (Reuben’s) – a brand that was previously self-distributed in Western Washington.
Are you officially done with your holiday beers? If so, here’s one to start your year off with. This January, Bear Republic Brewing Company’s seasonal, Apex™, is coming back in a big hoppy way. A seasonal release for the second year in a row, it is one of our most sought after offerings and a new fan favorite.
In a new agreement announced today, DESTIHL® Brewery, of Bloomington, Illinois, and Elite Brands of Colorado will join forces to distribute DESTIHL’s acclaimed and award-winning craft beer brands throughout Colorado.
We’re very excited to introduce World’s Worst Twin, our oak barrel fermented farmhouse ale brewed in collaboration with Evil Twin Brewing.
Since 1996, Stone Brewing Co. has been obsessed with its mission of providing people access to high-quality, big-character craft beer. After all, great beer is for everyone and anyone with the good taste to recognize it.
Georgia’s craft brewers may have found a couple of allies in the state house. The Georgia Craft Brewers Guild has secured five sponsors for a bill that, if passed, would repeal a number of restrictive, Prohibition-era regulations. Guild members contend that current state laws are stifling the growth of the craft sector and, in an effort to help educate legislators, the guild recently hired Thrash-Haliburton to lobby on behalf of the state’s growing craft beer industry.
The snowfall from winter leads to great runoff in spring and New Belgium Brewing’s spring seasonal, Portage Porter, celebrates the melting off and returning to the water. The snowmelt can create intense rapids that cause thrill seekers to portage their boats, especially along the rocky banks of the Cache la Poudre river, the local source of water and fun that runs by New Belgium.
