Craft beer industry news.
Philadelphia, PA–Under-the-radar craft beer, pioneering women brewers, small family breweries and artisanal eats are on tap for a small-group Beer and Brewery Tour to Germany, offered this fall by Philadelphia-based Treasures of Europe Tours. The trip is part beer vacation, part study tour and 100 percent fun.
Phoenixville, Pennsylvania — Just in time for Memorial Day, Montgomery County Pennsylvania’s Sly Fox Brewing Company will release a highly anticipated new beer on Friday, May 23rd at Citizens Bank Park, home of the Philadelphia Phillies.
First brewed and released as a draught only brand in 1994, Uinta Brewing Company’s Trader IPA was a trailblazer in the Session IPA category, a category that, at the time, was far from a trend. In 1996, Uinta purchased their first bottling line and Trader made its way in to a bottle and on to… Read more »
Massachusetts-based Jack’s Abby brewery will expand sales to Connecticut and has signed agreements with G&G Beverage Distributors, Inc. for coverage in the Fairfield and New Haven counties, as well as L. Knife & Son’s Craft Beer Guild Distributing of Connecticut for distribution throughout the Hartford, Litchfield, Middlesex, Tolland, Windham and New London counties.
Bud Light today announced a sponsorship and content marketing alliance with Live Nation and Insomniac to become the ‘Official Beer Sponsor’ of North America’s most popular dance music festival brand, Electric Daisy Carnival (EDC). The multi-city festival program is part of Bud Light Platinum’s year-long “Turn Up Your Night” campaign, an initiative grounded in electronic… Read more »
Back in February, Reyes Holdings acquired the distribution rights to Coca-Cola in Chicago. As Brewbound reported at the time, the acquisition marked Reyes’ “first major foray into beverage distribution outside of the beer category.” It made sense: who would turn down the rights to distribute one of the world’s most recognizable brands?
Pennsylvania — The idiots behind Evil Genius are proud to announce the release of I Love Lamp — Pineapple Hefeweizen. Brewed with pale, munich, and wheat malt, and hopped with Tettnang and Hallertau, we take the very traditional Hefeweizen and up it a notch with Pineapple! At 5.5% ABV, this will refresh your pallet during… Read more »
PORTLAND, Ore. — Memorial Day weekend is the unofficial start to summer and Widmer Brothers Brewing is kicking it off this year with two craft beers perfect for the warm months ahead: The Original American Hefeweizen and the brewery’s summer seasonal, Citra Blonde Summer Brew.
San Diego, California — Benchmark Brewing Company, BNS Brewing & Distilling Co., and Societe Brewing Company announce a collaborative celebration of summer and San Diego craft beer. Each of these three San Diego breweries celebrate their anniversaries in June, and together, the three locations will be celebrating all summer long.
Kalamazoo, MI — During the fall of 2006, Joe began work on Short’s most ambitious project up until that point: The Imperial Beer Seriers.
BOSTON — On Wednesday, May 21, before a crowd of 400 happily-fed guests at Cyclorama at The Boston Center of the Arts, Brewery Ommegang announced Johnny Sheehan, executive chef of New World Tavern, as the winner of the HopChef Boston.
Las Vegas — CraftHaus Brewery has hired two successful brewers from Australia to create a diverse and quality driven portfolio of beers.
As the weather begins to heat up this summer, so will beer sales, said the Beer Institute, a trade association representing both large and small brewers. According to the organization, which cites data from Nielsen, a consumer trends agency, more than 38 million American households will spend upwards of a collective $11 billion on beer… Read more »
Tamarron Consulting, known for its annual Malt Beverage Supplier Performance Survey, which polls hundreds of U.S. beer distributors and asks them to rate performance and share perceptions of the leading domestic and import brands, recently made its first foray into craft beer with its inaugural Craft Brewer Performance Survey.
