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When it comes to stacking awards from the Vail Valley Chamber of Commerce & Tourism Bureau (VVP), Crazy Mountain Brewery is tough to beat. Earlier this month, the VVP honored the Vail, Colo.-based brewery as the Mid-Size Business of the Year, an award given to a company that demonstrates ethical business practices, professionalism, and strong community involvement.

OXFORD, Conn. — Effective January 2013, Cavalry Brewing Company is working with Mason Wholesale Distributors located in Mount Holly, New Jersey. Mason Wholesale Distributors has an extensive wine and craft beer portfolio with representatives throughout the state.

With new distribution in Northern California, a recent brewery expansion, and plans to dramatically increase production in 2013, Hangar 24 Brewery is flying fast and thinking big. The Redlands, Calif.-based brewery debuted in the San Francisco market in January, marking the largest expansion in its distribution since launching in 2008.

The country’s third largest craft brewery, New Belgium Brewing, is expanding its distribution footprint. Company spokesman Bryan Simpson told Brewbound.com that beginning in July, New Belgium will distribute its beer in Florida. “Florida is a great craft beer market,” Simpson said. “It was the right market for the amount of volume and capacity the brewery… Read more »

BROOKLYN, N.Y. — Brooklyn Brewery is taking its neighborhood on the road. Collaborating with friends old and new, the Brewery has bundled up some of its favorite events into The Brooklyn Brewery Mash as a benefit for Slow Food USA. Kicking off at SxSW Interactive in Austin, The Mash will drop in 11 cities during 2013 and roll out a roster of parties, comedy, concerts, pop-up supperclubs and readings, all featuring humanity’s favorite beverage.

NEW YORK — Beck’s Sapphire is now the official beer sponsor of Mercedes-Benz Fashion Week, the globally famed season opener for the world’s fashion industry. The latest from the world’s top-selling German beer brand, Beck’s Sapphire is housed in a sleek black bottle, an innovation that took two full years to perfect. Given the brand’s packaging and its smooth taste profile, Beck’s Sapphire has elected to deepen its relationship with the tastemakers and trendsetters who attend Mercedes-Benz Fashion Week.

Small brewers would receive a significant reduction in federal excise taxes under a bipartisan bill introduced today in the U.S. House of Representatives. It’s the third time that Reps. Jim Gerlach (R-Pa) and Richard E. Neal (D-Mass) have introduced the legislation, House Bill 494, the Small Brewer Reinvestment and Expanding Workforce (Small BREW Act). The Brewers Association applauded the introduction of the bill.

The Goose has landed. Nationwide. Goose Island, the Anheuser-Busch InBev-owned, Chicago-based brewer that last August announced its intent to extend distribution nationally in 2013, has made its core offerings available on draught across the country. The company said draught availability of its 312, IPA, Honker’s and Mild Winter beers are part of a phased rollout that will include the nationwide release of bottle products later this spring.

Peak Organic beers are headed west. Sales of the Portland, Maine-based company’s beers began on Tuesday in San Francisco through wholesaler Matagrano Inc. The move out west marks a slight shift in distribution strategy for the company: until this week, it had only sent its beers as far west as Georgia.

FREDERICK, Md. — Good people brew good beer, in and outside of Flying Dog Brewery. Giving homebrewers a chance to brew Flying Dog beers at home, Maryland’s largest brewery is launching Stove Toppers — a line of clone homebrew kits.

We know your information comes largely from constant updates of our site, but in this week’s mainstream press, there’s plenty of coverage on craft beer’s history — and some forces that might affect its future.

SPRINGFIELD, Ill. — The Illinois beer industry ranks fifth in the nation in terms of its economic contribution to the state’s economy, that’s according to a report released by The National Beer Wholesalers Association (NBWA). The first of its kind study shows that distributor operations in Illinois provide 15,196 jobs totaling more than $1 billion in wages and salaries.

EDWARDS, Colo. — The Vail Valley Chamber of Commerce & Tourism Bureau (VVP) awarded Crazy Mountain Brewery the Mid-Size Business of the Year award on Friday evening in a Success Awards ceremony among hundreds of local business owners. The VVP honors one company each year for the Mid-Size Business award who demonstrates ethical business practices, professional and strong community involvement. This award comes on the heels of winning Entrepreneur of the Year and Small Business of the Year in 2012 and 2011, respectively.

LONDONDERRY, N.H. — This winter, New Hampshire’s Moonlight Meadery (23 Londonderry Road #17, 603-216-2162) will bring their richly flavored, artisanally produced and gluten-free meads to an ever-increasing audience that now includes nearly two dozen states. Founded by meadmaker Michael Fairbrother in 2010 to produce mead (the world’s first recorded fermented beverage, traditionally made with honey and water), Moonlight is the nation’s fastest growing meadery.