Craft beer industry news.
BOSTON — Trillium Brewing Company is opening its doors. More than two years in the making, Trillium will launch retail operations tomorrow and introduce their eponymous flagship, Trillium, a pale farmhouse style ale.
Deschutes Brewery brings its Base Camp for Beer Fanatics campaign to Dallas and Fort Worth for an amazing series of specialty beer tastings, beer and food pairings, and appearances by Woody, the giant beer barrel on wheels. Deschutes brewers, ambassadors and fanatics will be on hand to provide some in-the-trenches insight into our courageously crafted… Read more »
FT. COLLINS, Colo. — New Belgium Brewing today announced the long-awaited Tour de Fat 2013 schedule. The tour, now in its 14th year, will spin into 12 cities across the nation. This daylong festival in the park celebrates the bicycle, showcases New Belgium beers, and provides eclectic and engaging entertainment for all.
ALEXANDRIA, VA — The National Beer Wholesalers Association (NBWA) — which represents the interests of America’s 3,300 licensed, independent beer distributors — applauds America’s craft brewers for their continued growth and entrepreneurial spirit, which adds energy and excitement to the American beer industry.
ATLANTA (March 20, 2013) — One of Atlanta’s largest, most organically grown events — SweetWater 420 Festival — returns to Candler Park this April and is sure not to disappoint.
Forty-nine down and one to go. The American Homebrewers Association, or AHA, recently announced that Mississippi governor Phil Bryant signed a bill to legalize homebrewing throughout the state.
Hoping to take advantage of the growth of craft beer, a start-up company plans to spend $100 million on building five new contract brewing facilities over the next five years. The company, Brew Hub LLC, was started by former Anheuser-Busch executive Tim Schoen. It is majority-owned by Yucaipa Companies, a private equity firm started by… Read more »
LEAVENWORTH, Wash. — In their short time as a production brewery, 20 months to be exact, Icicle Brewing Company has been turning out consistently quality craft beer.
TAMPA, Fla. — The Fat Cat Beer Company, makers of “sessionable,” handcrafted beer in a can, announced it entered into an agreement with Micro Man Distributors to bring its craft beer to Florida.
Cloverdale, CA — Bear Republic Brewing Company is adding another popular, award winning beer to their seasonal bottled offerings, Black Racer. Currently being bottled and kegged, Black Racer will be landing on shelves in select areas of California, Oregon, Washington, Colorado, Pennsylvania, New York, Massachusetts, and Virginia during the first week of April. This will… Read more »
DURANGO, CO. — Ska Brewing Co., a seventeen-year old Colorado craft brewer, produced 25,770 bbls in 2012—a 21.2% increase over 2011 (21,257 bbls.) Dollar sales increased 20.4% over the same period. The Durango-based company released its numbers on the same day The Brewers Association (BA), the trade association representing small and independent American brewers, released… Read more »
COOPERSTOWN, NY — On Tuesday, April 23 at 7 p.m., some of Philadelphia’s most talented young chefs will compete in Brewery Ommegang’s second-annual Philly Hop Chef for a chance to represent the city in a cook-off at the brewery’s annual Belgium Comes to Cooperstown event.
ST. LOUIS – The Anheuser-Busch Foundation and 25 Anheuser-Busch wholesalers recently donated a combined total of $179,000 to the American Red Cross to help aid Northeast residents impacted by Hurricane Sandy. After the storm hit the East Coast, select Anheuser-Busch wholesalers committed to contribute 5 cents per case on package cases of Budweiser sold fromDecember… Read more »
