Craft beer industry news.
The Roscoe NY Beer Co. is pleased to announce the launch of two new craft beers, Trout TownTM Rainbow Red Ale and Trout TownTM Brown Ale, which will be available this April. Trout TownTM Rainbow Red is an India style red ale with floral and citrus hop aromas that starts out with a rich burst of malts then carries into a hop bitterness and has an ABV (alcohol by volume) of 7.5 percent.
This year’s allotment of Pliny the Younger has come and gone in Colorado but the financial contributions made by the craft beer community will leave a lasting impact on local breast cancer support center, Sense of Security.
On March 3rd, Hangar 24 Charities received approval from the Redlands City Council to hold the Hangar 24 AirFest & 7th Anniversary Celebration on May 16th at the Redlands Municipal Airport.
Mission Brewery is proud to announce the launch of its Hard Root Beer. The idea for Hard Root Beer, which is available in Mission Brewery’s tasting room and coming soon to retailers nationwide, originated before a baseball game.
With many parts of the country buried in snow, it’s a good time to start thinking about the joys of summertime, including another season of New Belgium Brewing’s Tour de Fat.
Oskar Blues is rolling out PINNER Throwback IPA in 6-packs of 12-ounce CANs nationwide this month, following the release of PINNER in mixed 12-pack CANundrum and on draft. Coming in at 4.9 percent ABV and 35 IBUs, this primo dry-hopped brew is easy to throw back. To put it bluntly, PINNER is the lowest year-round ABV beer to blaze out of Oskar Blues’ brewhouses.
Coronado’s Award-Winning ales have attributed to continued growth in 2014 including a 58 percent growth in total revenue year-over-year and brewing almost 30,000 barrels, a 36 percent increase from 2013.
The future ownership structure of Full Sail Brewing, an employee owned beer company based in Hood River, Ore., could be known as early as Friday afternoon. Last week, Full Sail CEO Irene Firmat and executive brewmaster Jamie Emmerson told The Oregonian that 78 current and former employee-owners would vote on a possible sale to Encore Consumer Capital, a San Francisco-based private equity firm.
The Kentucky State Senate today approved House House Bill 168, the divisive “beer bill.” It clarifies that a brewery cannot also operate a wholesale business. After a month of hearings and lobbying from various industry groups, HB 168 passed with a vote of 23-13 and will now head to Gov. Steve Beshear’s desk to be signed into law. The bill would force Anheuser-Busch to close down or sell two distributorships it owns in the state.
Distinctive but sessionable, River North FarmHouse delivers the balanced Belgian character the brewery is known for, with an effervescent dry finish. At 4.6% ABV, FarmHouse is perfect for springtime in Colorado, whether you’re spending your day on the summit or in the city sun.
Charter Oak’s second in their limited release ‘Charter Series’ is Lights On Summer Ale (recall, it was when the candles were relit, the Charter was missing) is an easy drinking, wheat based beer infused with real Oranges.
The Richmond City Council unanimously approved a deal Monday to cede control over a plot of land critical to Stone Brewing’s plans to build a brewery in the city, clearing what had turned into a bit of a hurdle for the project. According to a report from the Richmond Times-Dispatch, the council voted to transfer control over a warehouse near the James River to the city’s Economic Development Authority. Stone plans to build out a restaurant and beer garden in the warehouse.
If you ask Alan Newman what it’s like to build a craft brewery in Miami, expect to hear a few expletives. Newman, the president of Alchemy & Science — a craft beer incubator and wholly-owned subsidiary of Boston Beer — has been trying to pry open the doors to Concrete Beach Brewery for nearly 18 months but the company, Newman said, has encountered a myriad of confusing permitting and zoning regulations along the way.
A Kentucky bill that would force Anheuser-Busch to sell off or close two distributorships it owns in the state passed out of a Senate subcommittee today and now stands one vote removed from becoming law. As sponsored by Speaker Greg Stumbo, House Bill 168 would ban any brewer from owning a wholesale operation in hopes of upholding the traditional three-tier system.
