Craft beer industry news.
CHICAGO — The beer that delivers “refreshment as cold as the Rockies” is offering a bit more this spring to fans of snow-topped mountains. Through a partnership with K2 Sports, Coors Light and Coors Banquet are giving legal-drinking-age consumers a chance to win a variety of prizes that will make their skiing or snowboarding experience… Read more »
Founders Brewing Company recently announced information regarding four limited-edition beers that will rotate through its catalog. The brewery’s All Day IPA will be released on March 1 and will be available on shelves and on draft through September. The IPA is brewed with a mix of malts, grains and hops, packs a 4.7 percent ABV… Read more »
It’s been more than a year since Jacob McKean, the former Stone Brewing Co. communications specialist, quit his job at the country’s 11th largest craft brewery to launch his own craft beer company — Modern Times Beer. In that time, McKean has raised more than $1 million in investment money, signed the lease on a… Read more »
CLEARWATER, Fla. — Today at 7:00 pm the public is invited to the Sea Dog Brewing Company in Bangor, Maine or Clearwater, Florida to toast Florida’s first Sea Dog with a live Skype simultoast between the locations.
PHILLIPSBURG, N.J. — After years of continued success and unprecedented growth, Hunterdon is excited to announce the creation of four new sales management positions. Ray Burow, Drew Sewall, Sean Dwyer and John Matura have been promoted to the role of Area Sales Manager and will manage the Southern, Central, Northeast and Northwest New Jersey territories,… Read more »
Dave & Buster’s might want to pay attention to this unique invention from McKinney, an advertising agency based in Durham, NC. The company has developed the world’s first beer-dispensing arcade game and it’s called The Last Barfighter. Instead of winning tickets, players are rewarded with beer samples from Raleigh’s Big Boss Brewing.
ESCONDIDO, CA (Feb. 15, 2013) — Stone Brewing Co. is unleashing another round of the groundbreaking, devastatingly fresh beer, Stone Enjoy By IPA. Beginning February 22, Stone Enjoy By 04.01.13 IPA will be bottled and kegged, loaded onto delivery trucks, and headed to Stone fans in 17 states across the nation. Stone Enjoy By 04.01.13… Read more »
RALEIGH, N.C. — Lonerider Brewing Company, a local business that prides itself on developing ales for outlaws around the triangle, has announced the complete lineup for its 2013 Showdown featuring an extended lineup of Lonerider’s brews, a Brew It Forward competition for local home brewers, and live music concert to be held March 23, 2013… Read more »
BOSTON (February 19, 2013) — Samuel Adams announced today that for the first time it plans to offer Samuel Adams Boston Lager in a can — but not just any can. The new can design — the result of two years of ergonomic and sensory research and testing — aims to provide a drinking experience… Read more »
After years of refusing to put his beer in cans, Jim Koch — the founder of Boston Beer Company (BBC) — believes he’s finally found a package worthy of his brewery’s flagship offering, Boston Lager. Slated for an early summer release, the “Sam Can,” as Boston Beer’s brewers have termed it, is the result of… Read more »
NEW YORK — The eighth member in Shmaltz Brewing’s Limited Engagement Barrel-Aged series, Funky Jewbelation features a blend of six ales and lagers from the Shmaltz beer lineup aged in bourbon and rye whiskey barrels, and hustles in at 9.4% alc. Funky Jewbelation is an expert mash-up of Jewbelation 15 (aged seven and ten months),… Read more »
JUNEAU, Alaska — Alaskan Brewing is releasing their first new, year-round bottled brew since 2009 with Alaskan Freeride APA. This floral, fruity and citrusy American Pale Ale features Citra, Centennial and Cascade hops in balance with a medium malt body.
The country’s largest craft brewer, Boston Beer Company, is enjoying impressive sales growth in the convenience channel to begin 2013, up over 25 percent through a four-week period ending Jan. 19. Those numbers, and others, seem to confirm a growing presence for at least the country’s best-established craft beer brands in convenience stores.
A Texas legislator is aiming to boost support for small craft brewers in his state, which is dominated by Spoetzl Brewery, makers of Shiner Bock, and beer giants Anheuser-Busch InBev and MillerCoors.
