Craft beer industry news.
Honeoye Falls, NY — CB Brewing Company has joined the fight to cure ALS (Lou Gehrig’s Disease) with breweries across the country. Ales for ALS (www.alsforals.com) is a national program designed to raise awareness and provide funding for the ALS Therapy Development Institute. With hops provided free of charge by Loftus Ranch, WA and Hop… Read more »
Hood River, OR — July is Oregon Craft Beer Month and to celebrate Full Sail Brewing will release a new beer in their Brewer’s Share Experimental line up: “Faria’s Clara,” helles lager crafted by Brewer Francisco Farias Martinez.
Eighty years ago when the Silver Grill Café opened in Fort Collins, 1933 was a pivotal year for local beer drinking. Prohibition was in full-force in the town of 11,000. Later that year, laws eased and drinking beer and liquor became legal. Today, with Prohibition a faded memory and micro-brewing a leading local industry, FCB… Read more »
Kailua-Kona, Big Island of Hawaii — The golden hues of Kona Brewing Company’s Big Wave Golden Ale are shining a little brighter this week as it brought home a gold medal from the2013 U.S. Open Beer Championship held in Atlanta, GA this past weekend. Judges at the competition sampled more than 2,500 beers from 68… Read more »
SEATTLE — Redhook Brewery, the Northwest’s original craft brew, announced today the release of “Joint Effort,” a new hemp beer brewed in collaboration with Seattle’s Hilliard’s Beer that celebrates the legalization of marijuana in Washington State.*
Don’t miss the Fourth Annual Brew at the Zoo! Brew at the Zoo is a “beer tasting” event that features stations hosted by local breweries and restaurants – as well as an opportunity to stroll amongst the animals in the zoo’s signature Tropical Forest Pavilion, which is home to ring-tailed lemurs, ocelots, Baird’s tapirs, a pygmy hippo, free-flight birds and many other species.
Rumors can spread quickly in the beer business. In May, when New Belgium brewing announced an adjusted construction timeline for its secondary brewing facility in Asheville, NC, the chatter began. Was the move to a 100 percent employee-owned business model the wrong decision? Would the Asheville brewery even open? Had Fat Tire sales gone flat?
Other riders have come and gone during the first four years of the Tour de Bouldurango, but Adam Avery of Avery Brewing Co. and Dave Thibodeau of Ska Brewing Co. have stuck with it, suffering together through mile after mile and vertical foot over vertical foot.
LITTLETON, Colo. — The chance to order the Limited Edition Oktoberfest Variety Pack from Paulaner has come and gone this summer. The 15-bottle sampler pack will be released at the end of July, but pre-orders for the pack cleared out inventory before production even began.
Throughout the summer, beer lovers looking for the latest from local, award-winning craft brewery Sly Fox can visit the four regional locations of The Pub at Wegmans, in Allentown, PA.
SAN DIEGO — Leading Southern California Restaurateur, Jon Mangini of URBN Restaurants Inc. (Gang Kitchen, BASIC Urban Kitchen + Bar, and URBN Coal Fired Pizza in both North Park and Vista) announces major plans to expand his collective eastward into the heart of El Cajon.
NEW ULM, Minn. — The August Schell Brewing Co., the second-oldest family-owned brewery in the country, brewer of Schell’s and Grain Belt, was honored with three medals from the 2013 U.S. Open Beer Championship.
After occupying Berlin in 1809, Napoleon’s troops adoringly referred to the tart and effervescent white beer of the city as “The Champagne of the North.” In honor of this beer style, its history, and our great state motto, we’ve crafted “Star of the North,” our interpretation of a traditional Berliner Weisse.
FORT COLLINS, Colo. — July 1, 2013 – Eight local craft breweries have come together to sponsor and build a Fort Collins Habitat for Humanity home, the House That Beer Built (HTBB), through a Community Funded initiative.
