Craft beer industry news.
You can still find bronzing grandparents, golf courses and nightclubs in Florida, but after speaking with hordes of craft brewers at the Great American Beer Festival in Denver earlier this month, it seems that the Sunshine State also offers a growing range of craft beers.
Earlier this week, Nectar Ales announced that it will revert to its original brewery name, Humboldt Brewing Company. The name change nods to the brewery’s start in 1987 in Humboldt County, Calif., before it was acquired by Firestone Walker Brewing Company in June 2005 and then again acquired by Total Beverage Solution in July 2012.
Bell’s Brewery yesterday announced that its lineup of core and seasonal beers are now available in Upstate New York. In August, the Michigan-based craft brewery confirmed plans to begin distributing in the Empire state with three L. Knife & Son companies: T.J. Sheehan Distributing, Tri-Valley Beverage and Craft Guild of New York.
SONOMA COUNTY, Calif. — Bear Republic Brewing Company┬« claimed a bronze medal at the 2013 Great American Beer Festival┬«(GABF) competition, receiving their nineteenth medal overall.
Fort Collins, CO — Odell Brewing will introduce Woodcut No. 7, the seventh brew in the acclaimed series. Each Woodcut offering is aged in new oak barrels, and this year, the brewery channeled their dark side crafting a rich Russian Imperial Stout. “This Woodcut offering is our biggest beer yet,” said pilot brew and barrel… Read more »
San Francisco, CA – For an inventive company such as 21st Amendment Brewery, which has only been selling its packaged beer for five years, being named to the San Francisco Business Times list of 100 Fastest-Growing Private Bay Area Companies is a huge honor. At a ceremony in San Francisco on Wednesday, the award-winning brewery… Read more »
EUGENE, OR. — Last week, Denver, Colorado hosted the 2013 Great American Beer Festival (GABF), an annual, three-day beer festival and one of the most coveted beer competitions in the brewing industry. Presented by the Brewers Association, GABF is the largest national beer competition that recognizes the most outstanding beers produced in the nation.
NEWPORT, Ore. — Rogue Santa’s Private Reserve is on everyone’s holiday list. And this year, it’s made with hops and barley grown and harvested from Rogue Farms in Oregon. We know, because we checked it twice.
Duvel Moortgat, the Belgian owners of Brewery Ommegang in Cooperstown, N.Y. will purchase Boulevard Brewing Company of Kansas City, Mo. in a deal that will combine one of the country’s largest craft breweries with the domestic and import branches of a high-end international brewing conglomerate in a separate holding company focused on U.S. sales. The… Read more »
PHILADELPHIA — During Breast Cancer Awareness Month each October, organizations across the country work together to raise awareness about a disease that affects millions of women around the world. In 2013, Idaho-based Sockeye Brewing has partnered with CROWN Beverage Packaging North America, a business unit of Crown Holdings, Inc. (NYSE: CCK) (Crown) (www.crowncork.com), to launch… Read more »
DECATUR, Ala. — While food and drink often exist on the same table, a new book by Chef Cooper Brunk melds food and craft beer into the same dishes with delicious results.
BEND, Ore. — Deschutes Brewery will be featured in an upcoming episode of the new craft beer show “Brew Dogs”, aired on the new Esquire Network.
Alchemy & Science is taking its talents to South Beach. The craft brew incubation project and wholly-owned subsidiary of Boston Beer Company yesterday announced the launch of Concrete Beach Brewery, scheduled to open in the Wynwood Arts District of Miami before the end of the year.
D.G. Yuengling Brewery is considering new distribution in Massachusetts, according to company officials. It would mark just the 16th state for Yuengling, which is nevertheless the country’s oldest brewery and one that sells nearly 3 million barrels annually.
