Craft beer industry news.
CLEVELAND, OH – Great Lakes Brewing Company (GLBC), Ohio’s most celebrated craft brewer of award-winning lagers and ales, announces its plan to enter the Raleigh-Durham-Chapel Hill (North Carolina) market with Long Beverage Inc. on February 20, 2012.
Samuel Adams drinkers might have to pay a little more for their favorite brew this year. In an interview with Brewbound.com, Boston Beer Co. Founder and CEO Jim Koch said he is anticipating price increases in 2012. Koch estimates barley costs will rise by 30 percent this year, resulting in a 2 to 3 percent… Read more »
FREDERICK, MD – Flying Dog is rolling out new packaging designs in 2012 to better reflect Gonzo artist Ralph Steadman’s original work for the brewery. “Our goal was simplification,” Creative Director Adam McGinnis said. “Ralph’s work is insanely chaotic yet intricately detailed. Distracting from that would be an injustice.”
Earlier this week, the Mankato, Minn. based start-up Mankato Brewery rolled its first kegs to 17 accounts. The brewery is the first in town since Mankato Brewing closed its doors in 1967. Co-Founder Tim Tupy, who also owns a successful spa business with his wife Tami, began planning for Mankato Brewery in 2009, but his… Read more »
GRAND RAPIDS, MI – Founders Brewing Co.’s Co-Founder and Vice President of Marketing, Dave Engbers, announced today that All Day IPA would be the next addition to the brewery’s year-round lineup, with availability limited to Michigan, Ohio, North Carolina, and the greater Chicago area beginning on February 6, 2012.
Don’t battle the lines this year for the mere chance of scoring a pint Pliny the Younger. The Beachwood family has decided to turn the “I want my Pliny” frenzy into the “Pliny fights Cancer Charity Raffle”.
In 2011, Kodiak Island Brewing Company produced just 870 barrels, up 8.5 percent over 2010. But it could have been more, according to Ben Millstein, KIBC’s founder and head brewer. That’s because even Kodiak, the nation’s second-largest island in area, but with a population of only 14,000 is experiencing the effects of the craft beer… Read more »
PUEBLO, CO. – The Professional Bull Riders and Pabst Brewing Company today announce a multi-year relationship that will make Pabst Blue Ribbon Beer the exclusive beer partner of Professional Bull Riding. Activation includes unique signage at all Built Ford Tough Series events, where the iconic Pabst Blue Ribbon Tall Boy will be integrated throughout the… Read more »
Alchemy & Science, the new craft-brew incubation project from industry veterans Alan Newman and Jim Koch, has made its first move. The Burlington, Vt.-based company today announced the acquisition of Los Angeles, Calif.-based Angel City Brewing. The tiny (2,000 barrels last year), 15-year-old project started by former home brewer Michael Bowe had expanded two years… Read more »
REDLANDS, CA – On December 31st, Hangar 24 Craft Brewery broke the 15,000 barrel production mark and graduated from being classified as a “Microbrewery” to a “Regional Craft Brewery”. (A Regional Craft Brewery produces between 15,000 and 6,000,000 barrels of beer per year.) The Craft Brewer’s Association recorded 1,767 Craft Breweries in the United States… Read more »
LOS ANGELES, CA – With the completion of their newest addition, the pub, Golden Road Brewing has achieved their vision of becoming the next great craft beer destination inLos Angeles. Starting mid-January, the newly renovated yellow building (in their collection of primary colored warehouses) in Atwater Village will be open to the public from 11… Read more »
LONGMONT, CO – The spirit behind the funky little brew pub that started the Craft Beer-In-A-Can movement nearly 10 years ago continues to fuel the fire for Oskar Blues Brewery. In addition to their beer blessed restaurant locations, the brewery announced the opening of their sustainable Hops & Heifers Farm, began building their own bikes… Read more »
The New Belgium Lips of Faith series is really a chance for the brewers to spread their wings and explore, and one of the newest offerings (though we are bit behind on the review) is Clutch. 80 percent stout blended with 20 percent dark sour wood beer make for quite the interesting drink. Clutch pours… Read more »
ST. LOUIS, MO – The Saint Louis Brewery, Inc., brewer of Schlafly Beer has signed a purchase agreement that will transfer a 60% ownership interest in the business to a local investor group led by Wes Jones and John Lemkemeier of St. Louis and including David Schlafly, also of St. Louis, the first cousin of… Read more »
