Craft beer industry news.
Cigar City is about to set sail on Carnival Cruise Lines. Beginning this week, two canned offerings from the Tampa, Fla.-based craft brewery will be available on 13 Florida-based ships sailing to the Caribbean, Mexico and The Bahamas.
Oregon’s Full Sail Brewing has filed a lawsuit with an Atlanta-based law firm specializing in driving under the influence (DUI) cases, alleging that the firm’s logo — which is printed on brown paper bags — is an infringement of the brewery’s own trademarked Session Lager artwork.
Phoenix — Craft beer blog and video series, Adventures In Brew is excited to announce their partnership with bar trivia company, Pub Trivia Nerds, in efforts to provide more opportunities for local pubs in hosting weekly trivia night and becoming involved in craft beer events with the Adventures In Brew crew.
Denver, CO — As the premier U.S. beer festival and competition, the 33rd annual Great American Beer Festival (GABF) offers 49,000 attendees the opportunity to sample almost 3,000 beers from approximately 700 U.S. breweries.
ESCONDIDO, CA — In 2013, Stone Brewing Co. CEO & Co-founder Greg Koch invited long-time friend, actor and overall geek idol Wil Wheaton, along with Fark.com creator Drew Curtis, to collaborate on a massive yet seductive imperial stout dubbed Drew Curtis/Wil Wheaton/Greg Koch Stone Farking Wheaton w00tstout.
Los Angeles, CA — First Beverage Group today announced that Nicole Fry has joined the firm as a managing partner of its investment banking division. Ms. Fry has over 15 years of investment banking and corporate development experience.
Long Beach, CA — Take note beer fans, on July 29th Beachwood Brewing will release the award winning Mocha Machine Imperial Coffee Chocolate Porter!
ST. LOUIS — Budweiser’s celebrated Super Bowl ads, “Puppy Love” and “Hero’s Welcome,” have received Emmy┬« nominations in the Outstanding Commercial category. “It’s a tremendous honor to be nominated by the Academy of Television Arts & Sciences and an even greater recognition to garner two of five nominations in the category,” said Brian Perkins, vice… Read more »
Albuquerque, NM. Black Diamond Brewing Company of Concord, California is pleased to announce Black Diamond’s debut in New Mexico. Two tasting and meet the brewer events, July 15 and 16, 2014, will introduce Black Diamond’s award-winning artisan beers. Head Brewer Paul Mallory, an Albuquerque native, will talk about the beers and why he’s excited to… Read more »
BOSTON, July 11, 2014 /PRNewswire/ — Consumers thirsty for an ice cold beer over theFourth of July holiday weekend turned to Drizly in record numbers to have their beverages delivered. Powered by an 83-percent lift in weekly beer sales, Drizly enjoyed a record week for demand of its alcohol delivery service across Boston, New York… Read more »
When Harpoon Brewery announced that it would transfer 48 percent of the company’s shares into an employee stock ownership plan (ESOP), many of our readers reached out with questions about how these transactions function. An ESOP is an innovative liquidity tool that provides flexibility for shareholders, tax advantages for business owners and an opportunity for… Read more »
Chandler, Arizona — It’s beer, it’s wine, it’s fantastic! The idea of blending craft beer with wine is something that Anthony Canecchia, SanTan founder and brewmaster has wanted to create for years.
LeBron James isn’t the only one taking his talents to Ohio. On the same day that the star basketball player announced his return to the team that drafted him, Atlanta-based SweetWater Brewing Co. unveiled its plans to launch new distribution in Ohio later this summer.
Big Boss, which launched in Raleigh, N.C. in 2006, has tapped the services of B&B Distributors, KW Associates, Bud of Columbia, and Southern Eagle for coverage in Rock Gill, Greenville, Columbia and Charleston respectively.
