Craft beer industry news.
SEATTLE — Today, Two Beers Brewing announces the third beer in its popular high-octane Alta Series, High Divide Double Blonde. Offering 8.9 percent ABV and 42 IBUs, this unique style perfect for the warmer days of summer.
CHICO, Calif. — Sierra Nevada Brewing Co., known for its allegiance to whole-cone hops and love of hop-forward beers, is highlighting the revered ingredient at its inaugural Single, Fresh, Wet & Wild Harvest Festival.
ARLINGTON, Va. — Craft breweries in the Mid-Atlantic and Northeast region will soon have a new packaging option thanks to the fast-growing trend of mobile beverage canning. River City Cannery (RCC) will begin operations in January 2014, initially offering its services to breweries in the Mid-Atlantic and Northeastern corridor, from Washington D.C.to Trenton, NJ.
RALEIGH, N.C. — Mims Distributing Company, a beer distributor that services a nine-county area in and around the Triangle, has announced that Charlie Clement has been promoted to vice president of chain sales.
MILWAUKEE — The new North American Guild of Beer Writers announces the launch of its annual competition for writers, bloggers, broadcasters and authors. As of 2013, there are more than 2,500 breweries in existence with many new breweries and brewpubs in planning across the United States. When Canada is included, that number climbs even higher…. Read more »
Faster and tastier than a can of Silver Bullet, The Mighty Mites session beer fest is back for a sequel on Sunday August 18th as part of the Hawthorne Street Fair in front of famed bier bar Bazi Bierbrasserie.
DENVER, CO — Avery Brewing Company and Euclid Hall Bar & Kitchen are welcoming Great American Beer Festival attendees in great American style for the third year with Midnight Breakfast at Euclid Hall right after the first GABF session on Thursday, October 10th. The doors at Euclid Hall open at 10:45 and the breakfast gets… Read more »
COOPERSTOWN, N.Y. — In true Belgian-style fashion, everybody ate well at this year’s national “Hop Chef” competition, especially at Chef Cosmo Goss’ table.
PROVIDENCE, R.I. — Today, Narragansett Beer announces the re-release of the wildly popular “Jaws” can just in time for Discovery Channel’s “Shark Week” and “Jaws” actor Robert Shaw’s birthday. For a limited time, all 12-, 18- and 30-packs of 12-ounce cans of Narragansett Lager will feature the same design and logo made popular by the… Read more »
SAN DIEGO — On Sunday August 11, Ballast Point Brewing & Spirits will hold its 17th Anniversary Party & Beer Festival aboard the Maritime Museum of San Diego, with all proceeds to benefit the Maritime Museum.
In the craft beer community, there are few pilgrimages more revered than the trip to upstate New York for Duvel Moortgat USA and Brewery Ommegang’s annual Belgium Comes to Cooperstown (BCTC) beer festival. The brewery barely breaks even on the event, but the word of mouth and positive vibes can be astonishing.
NOVATO, Calif. — Moylans Brewery, a Novato, CA based brewery is now going to be available in North Dakota. River Cities Distributing, a Fargo, ND based craft-only, independent beer distributor will distribute Moylans in North Dakota.
FT. COLLINS, Colo. — Adding the unexpected kick of cranberries gives New Belgium Brewing’s 2013 fall seasonal the kick it needs to take the traditional out of this pumpkin beer. Pumpkick Ale is brewed with plenty of pumpkin, cinnamon, nutmeg and allspice, but it is the healthy dose of cranberries that will have you sipping… Read more »
BUFFALO, N.Y. — North American Breweries, one of the country’s leading beer suppliers that also owns the rights to distribute the Seagram’s Escapes Brand, has awarded New York advertising agency AMMIRATI creative duties for both their Labatt Beer and Seagram’s Escapes businesses following a review.
