Craft beer industry news.
ESCONDIDO, CA — Last year, the Brew Crew of Stone Brewing Co. participated in an intradepartmental competition dubbed the Stone Spotlight Series, in which teams of two competed for the opportunity to have a beer they devised brewed, packaged and distributed nationally.
Half Moon Bay, Calif. — The Half Moon Bay Brewing Company invites members of the community to join celebrated guest panelists for Brews and Views on May 1 and May 15 for free public forums discussing important issues facing Bay Area residents.
DURANGO, CO — Durango Brewing Company announces that Durango Pale Ale has been recognized with a Silver Medal at the 2014 Denver International Beer Competition.
During a Q&A panel at the Craft Brewers Conference in Denver, Colo., Dick Cantwell, co-founder of Elysian Brewery, offered insight on how startup operations can best navigate the industry as it continues to grow and evolve. Cantwell, who also penned the second edition of The Brewers Association’s Guide to Starting Your Own Brewery divulged how… Read more »
SAN DIEGO — The Craft Beer Association of San Diego (CBA-SD), a new think tank and economic development/marketing consultancy, will officially launch to the public on Saturday, April 19th.
Hampton, NH – Introduced in 2009, Star Island Single, Smuttynose’s delicately spiced, sessionable, Belgian-style pale ale will be retired from the Hampton-based brewery’s full-time lineup at the end of April, 2014.
VICTOR, ID — Grand Teton Brewing Company, known throughout the West for their exceptional craft brews, is proud to announce the release of Splash Down Belgian- Style Golden Ale, the second offering in their 2014 Cellar Reserve series.
LAKEWOOD, WA — Mead, the alcoholic beverage made from honey, may be the world’s oldest fermented drink, but it is also the country’s hottest. A recent industry surveyreveals that mead sales increased 130% from 2012 to 2013, exceeding growth rates for beer, wine, distilled spirits and hard cider.
San Francisco, CA – January 2014 was a huge milestone for Triple Voodoo as we opened our new brewery and tasting room in the Dog Patch neighborhood of San Francisco.
MIDDLEBURY, Vt. — Vermont Hard Cider Company is the proud recipient of the World Expo of Beer Commercial Competition awards for Best Standard Ciders and Best Specialty Ciders.
Alaskan Brewing has announced plans to bring its beers further into the mainland U.S. with the addition of Michigan and South Dakota to its distribution footprint. The new distribution coincides with an ongoing facility expansion. The Juneau-based brewery, which produced approximately 145,000 barrels in 2013, has inked agreements with the M1 Network — a group of 11 wholesalers that cover the whole state of Michigan.
If you ask a group of beer industry professionals for their take on the Brewers Association (BA) definition of a “craft brewer,” take cover — it’s a polarizing topic. So, at last week’s Craft Brewers Conference in Denver, Brewbound asked a number of brewers for their thoughts on the revised craft brewer definition. The latest installment in our video series is published above for your viewing pleasure.
CHICAGO, Illinois — Numbers doubling, tripling and quadrupling all define the growing Chicago craft beer scene and the Illinois Craft Brewers Guild’s 5th Annual Chicago Craft Beer Week (May 15-25).
DENVER — Representing the first major innovation in yeast cultivation in more than 100 years, San Diego-based White Labs unveils its proprietary FlexCell propagation process, which minimizes its environmental footprint while ensuring the quality and purity commercial brewing customers expect.
