Craft beer industry news.
Another week, another craft brewed trademark dispute. It was reported last week that Left Hand Brewing had filed a trademark application on the term “Nitro” — shorthand for the process of carbonating beer with nitrogen — in order to protect the Nitro series brand name that the brewery has built over the years.
Half Moon Bay, Calif. – March 26, 2013 — The Half Moon Bay Brewing Company invites members of the community to join celebrated guest panelists for Brews and Views on April 10 and April 22 for free public forums discussing important issues facing Bay Area residents. Created in November 2009 by Lenny Mendonca, co-owner and… Read more »
Lakewood, NY – Another seasonal release from Southern Tier Brewing Company is hitting store shelves this spring. Goat Boy Imperial Weizenbock, inspired by brewing history, is the first weizenbock produced by Southern Tier Brewing.
PORTLAND, ME — Shipyard Brewing Company’s newest beer, Shipyard American Pale Ale, will be available nationwide in April.
COSTA MESA, CA — Barley Forge Brewing Co. has hired award-winning brewer David Huls as their Brewmaster.
This isn’t the Newport, Ore.-based brewery’s first foray into the state — its beers are available nationwide — but effective this Friday, MoBev and its newly formed craft team will exclusively distribute the brand throughout. As such, consumers in the state already have a sense of brand familiarity with Rogue, said MoBev general manager Derek Holmes.
Ft. Collins, Colo.—New Belgium Brewing has released Summer Helles, the brewery’s summer seasonal. It was originally created to celebrate the 40thanniversary of both Telluride’s famed Bluegrass Festival and Rockygrass Festival. Due to its popularity at those events, New Belgium decided to give more people a chance to enjoy Summer Helles and made it the latest… Read more »
New Ulm, MN. – August Schell Brewing Company (www.schellsbrewery.com), the second-oldest family-owned brewery in the country, brewer of Schell’s and Grain Belt, has earned a gold medal from the Beverage Testing Institute (BTI) for its Schell’s Bock beer.
Canton, MA – Blue Hills Brewery is proud to release our second line of canned beer, just in time for the summer. Our best selling seasonal beer, Watermelon Wheat, debuts this week in 12 oz cans.
Las Vegas— Motley Brews and Joseph James Brewing Company have partnered for the brewing of Sweet ’N Funky Desert Junkie, made exclusively for the 2014 Great Vegas Festival of Beer scheduled in Downtown’s Fremont East Entertainment District on Saturday, April 26 from 4 to 8 p.m.
ST. LOUIS — Just in time for the start of the 2014 baseball season, the new Budweiser Brew House in the much-anticipated Ballpark Village development in St. Louis will open its doors this week.
Bend, Oregon – After a very successful draft-only release in early January 2014, Worthy Brewing Company is adding Black Light Porter to their line-up of draft and 22 oz bottles in early April 2014.
One prominent Sunshine State craft brewer is considering a major expansion, but he’s worried that an ongoing legislative wrangling over the state’s growler-fill laws might actually force him to move the project out of the state. Joey Redner, the founder of Cigar City Brewing in Tampa, Fla., told Brewbound that the company is unable to… Read more »
Florida craft brewers came closer to finding a bill that would suit them when it comes to providing growler fills to consumers yesterday after lawmakers made sweeping changes to a previously-submitted version.That bill, a revised version of House Bill 1329, remains unlikely to make it out of committee this year, however.
