Craft beer industry news.
Coronado, CA. —Coronado, also known as America’s “Crown City” has added a little more heavy metal to its crown as brewers from Coronado Brewing Company have brought home a silver medal from this past weekend’s Great American Beer Festival (GABF) in Denver, CO. Coronado Brewing’s Black Sails won a silver medal out of 73 entries… Read more »
San Diego, CA — This past weekend, Karl Strauss Brewing Company won another Gold Medal at the world’s largest commercial beer competition, the 32nd Annual Great American Beer Festival┬« (GABF┬«) in Denver, Colorado. Red Trolley Ale took top honors in the Irish-Style Red Ale category, beating out 47 other entries to take the Gold.
ATLANTA — Tis the season for festivals and SweetWater has big news regarding the two largest in their lineup. SweetWater’s renowned cask ale festival, Brew Your Cask Off, has sprung forward shifting their longtime spring celebration to a fall fiesta kicking off Nov. 9. The Atlanta-based brewery is also movin’ and shakin’ (quite literally) with… Read more »
BOSTON — Today, Samuel Adams is proud to reveal the latest class of LongShot American Homebrew winners at The Great American Beer Festival in Denver — craft beer’s biggest stage. Besting more than 1,000 entries — this year’s winners include Tamarac, Florida residentRuss Brunner’s American Stout, Evanston, Illinois resident Cesar Marron’s Gratzer and Samuel Adams… Read more »
Paso Robles, CA — Brewmaster Matt “Merlin” Brynildson and his brewing team at Firestone Walker Brewing Company continue to work unprecedented magic at the world’s biggest beer competitions, this time earning “Mid-Size Brewing Company and Brewer of The Year” honors at the 2013 Great American Beer Festival┬« held this weekend in Denver, Colorado. Firestone Walker… Read more »
It didn’t take long for Bell’s Brewery founder Larry Bell to break ground on his new side project, Upper Hand Brewery. Bell’s, currently the country’s 7th biggest craft beer company, today announced that it broke ground on a new $1.3 million “state of the art craft brewery and bottling facility” located at the Delta County… Read more »
DENVER, CO — The National Beer Wholesalers Association (NBWA) and the Brewers Association (BA) are pleased to announce that DeCrescente Distributing Company of Mechanicville, New York, has been selected as the 2013 Craft Beer Distributor of the Year. The award, now in its seventh year, recognizes the beer distributor who does the most to market,… Read more »
San Jose, Calif. — The products of Howe Sound Brewing Company will be the first of 2X4 Brewing & Imports portfolio to be distributed by Young’s Market Company in California. Products from Parallel 49 Brewing Company and others as part of the “Canada’s Select Brews Ôäó” established by 2X4 will soon follow.
Green Bay, WI. — The Beverage Testing Institute (Chicago, IL) has awarded Green Bay’s Stillmank Beer Company a Silver Medal in the 2013 specialty beer category of the World Beer Championships. The blind judging panel seated in Chicago, IL on August 26th, 2013 has selected Stillmank’s amber ale known as Wisco Disco for this distinction…. Read more »
ATLANTA — Georgia’s largest craft brewery brought home a gold from the nation’s touted “Super Bowl of Beer Festivals” held in Denver, CO throughout the weekend. During Saturday’s Great American Beer Festival (GABF) award ceremony, the SweetWater team was presented with a gold medal in the Rye Beer category for their LowRYEder India Pale Ale.
Bozeman, MT — Bozeman Brewing Company has expanded its canning operations to included Bozone Hefeweizen, Hopzone IPA and Bozone Plum St Porter in 12-ounce aluminum cans. These three favorites join the award-winning Bozone Select Amber Ale on store shelves across Southwest Montana. The six-packs are also available at the brewery and flow on tap alongside… Read more »
New Belgium Brewing is once again expanding its distribution footprint, this time to Ohio. The country’s third largest craft brewery today announced that it has signed agreements with a mix of nine different Anheuser-Busch and MillerCoors wholesalers.
San Francisco, CA — Today, Anchor Brewing Company announces the release of the fifth brew in their Zymaster┬« series, Harvest One American Pale Ale. It’s hard to imagine that the Cascade hop, today one of craft brewing’s most popular hop varieties, was ever new. Yet this distinctively aromatic hop, developed in Oregon by the USDA’s… Read more »
(LONGMONT, CO) — Four weeks ago, 3 inches was all that remained between a flood disaster and a dodged bullet for Left Hand Brewing Company. On Saturday morning, the number 3 proved its good luck again for the brewery – this time with 3 Gold Medals for Sawtooth Ale, Milk Stout, and Fade to Black… Read more »
