Craft beer industry news.
Frederick, MD — Flying Dog, Maryland’s largest brewery, donated a portion of proceeds from its Pearl Necklace Oyster Stout to the Oyster Recovery Partnership. From 2012 sales alone, the Oyster Recovery Partnership will be able to replant 750,000 oysters back into the Chesapeake Bay.
NEW YORK — This spring, Dos Equis is extending the season of Cinco de Mayo with a 5-week program that includes exclusive content and inspiration taken from chapters of the Most Interesting Man in the World’s unpublished memoirs. This collection of rituals, feasts and adventures will encourage adult shoppers and on-premise patrons, age 21 and older, to create and share their own legendary experiences as they prepare for their Cinco de Mayo celebration.
FT. COLLINS, Colo. — New Belgium Brewing, maker of Fat Tire Amber Ale, is rolling out 2013’s sour beer offerings in style with the simultaneous release of this year’s La Folie and a fresh version of Transatlantique Kriek. This is New Belgium’s third collaboration with world-renowned sour beer expert Frank Boon to create Transatlantique Kriek, a beer brewed on two continents. New Belgium recently tripled its wood beer capacity and will be exploring further distribution of its harder to get sour beer offerings.
PORTLAND, Ore. — Portland, Oregon is known for its innovative tech start-ups and craft beer enthusiasts, so it seems only appropriate that it would be the home of DigitalPour, a software company that would dream up The Digital Beer Dashboard.
SAN MARCOS, Calif. — “Nun Bettor” The Lost Abbey’s first ever 30 second Advertisement was released today. Imagined as part of a crusade to bring inspired beers “For Sinner’s and Saints Alike ,” Nun Bettor is an homage to the Cassius Marcellus Coolidge collection of 16 paintings known as “Dogs Playing Poker.”
Breckenridge Brewery is building a new home. The brewery announced yesterday that it will set up shop on 12 acres along the South Platte River in Littleton, Colo., just south of its current home in Denver. Breckenridge will break ground in the fall of 2013, and aims to open the facility in the fall of 2014.
Sixpoint Brewery has published a short documentary film to coincide with the company’s most recent beer release, 3Beans. 3Beans – a 10 percent ABV ale brewed with Romano beans, Cacao beans and cold-brewed coffee – is a collaborative effort between Sixpoint and two other Brooklyn-based companies, Stumptown Coffee and Mast Brothers Chocolate.
BOULDER, Colo. — Mountain Sun Pub & Breweries, 19-year veteran of Colorado’s $450 million craft brewing industry, welcomes a new member to its family of pubs and restaurants. Under the Sun, located at 627-A S. Broadway, directly below the current Southern Sun Pub and Brewery, is now open to the public.
FORT COLLINS, Colo. — To adapt a well-known riddle, if a great beer is brewed, but nobody drinks it, is it still a great beer? That’s the question the owners of Fort Collins Brewery, Tom and Jan Peters, asked themselves going into the brewery’s tenth year of operation.
Following an impressive year in which the company’s volume growth increased by 67 percent, Utah-based Uinta Brewing Company will launch its first canned packages. The initial offerings are scheduled to be released this March.
New Ulm, Minn. — The August Schell Brewing Co., the second-oldest family-owned brewery in the country, brewer of Schell’s and Grain Belt, is hosting its much anticipated Bock Fest, taking place on February 9th.
BEND, Ore. — Deschutes Brewery has hired Craig Marshall as its new South Central zone sales manager and Gavin Stoub as its new Illinois market sales manager. Marshall, who is based in Phoenix, AZ, will oversee sales activities and team members in Arizona, Colorado, Texas, Utah and New Mexico. Stoub, who is based in the Chicago area, will manage distributor and account relationships within the state of Illinois.
VICTOR, N.Y. — Constellation Brands, Inc. (NYSE: STZ and STZ.B) issued the following statement today in further response to the U.S. Department of Justice’s (DOJ) action yesterday concerning the proposed Anheuser-Busch InBev (AB InBev) and Grupo Modelo (Modelo) transaction.
PORTLAND, Ore. — Craft Brew Alliance, Inc. (“CBA”) (Nasdaq: BREW), an independent craft brewing company, announced plans for strong 2013 growth and shared preliminary 2012 financial results.
