Craft beer industry news.
Amid construction of a new brewing facility that will double its current capacity, Maui Brewing Co. has added to its executive team. Last week, the company announced the hiring of Peter Scheider as its new National Sales Manager.
Denver, CO — San Francisco’s Speakeasy Ales & Lagers took home the prestigious gold medal in the Amber/Red Ale category for Prohibition Ale at the 2013 Great American Beer Festival Awards Ceremony. “Prohibition is our founding recipe,” says Brewmaster Kushal Hall. “ We’ve been brewing this beer for 16 years, and we’re honored one of… Read more »
Denver, CO — Hangar 24 Craft Brewery brought home its first Great American Beer Festival Gold Medal for its winter Local Fields beer, Warmer, this past Saturday. The Denver, Colorado event is the largest commercial beer competition and festival in the world, with nearly 50,000 attendees.
Exactly 365 days ago, Boulevard Brewing founder John McDonald told Brewbound that that he wasn’t interested in selling the country’s 19th largest brewery. What a difference a year can make. But yesterday, the owner of the Kansas City Mo.-based craft brewery announced that Belgium-based Duvel Moortgat will purchase the company as part of a deal… Read more »
LANCASTER, Pa. — Lancaster Brewing Company donated $3,000 after hosting “Brewing Up a Cure for Crohn’s & Colitis” on October 9. Lancaster Brewing presented a check on Thursday, October 17 to the Crohn’s & Colitis Foundation of America (CCFA). The Lancaster Brewing Company donated 20% of all food sales and 100% of all Oktoberfest pints… Read more »
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 »
