Craft beer industry news.
American consumers spent $89 billion on beer, wine and spirits at off-premise retailers last year, marking a $13.5 billion increase over 2019 beverage alcohol sales, according to market research firm Nielsen IQ.
Farmers Brewing Co. announces its first distribution partnerships with Morris Distributing and Wonderland Distributing Co. The farm to glass brews will be available in Shasta and Siskiyou counties starting Feb. 15 with Wonderland Distributing Co. Distribution with Morris Distributing will begin in March in the North Bay counties of Mendocino, Lake, Sonoma, Napa, Marin and San Francisco.
Indeed Brewing Company is now offering Pistachio Cream Ale year-round, transitioning it from a one-off beer to a core brand. Now in newly designed 12-ounce cans that feature artwork from Minneapolis artist Chuck U, Pistachio Cream Ale will be distributed across Minnesota and Wisconsin beginning February 15.
North Carolina’s largest native brewer is announcing the release of High Pines IPA – an imperial IPA brewed with Mosaic, Simcoe, Centennial, and Comet hops – as the latest addition to its year-round lineup. Named with the forest and fresh scent of mountain pine in mind, the new beer will be distributed across Highland’s Southeastern distribution footprint in 12-ounce cans this February.
After three and a half years of hitting the pavement hard throughout greater Cincinnati, Fretboard Brewing Company (Blue Ash, OH) now looks to their neighbors in Dayton.
SUNDAY BEER CO. is proud to announce it has committed to become Climate Neutral Certified. The company will be working with Climate Neutral, an independent non-profit organization that helps companies measure their carbon footprint, offset it in its entirety by purchasing quality carbon credits, and reduce emissions moving forward.
Novo Brazil Brewing Company is bringing back a limited-release fan favorite, just in time to end your dry January the right way! The Grapefruit Imperial IPA is hoppy liquid gold, melding the complexity of a double IPA with grapefruit tropicality to produce an alluring golden/orange creation brimming with a hop-forward quench.
Silver Eagle Beverages and Anheuser-Busch partnered to donate more than 7,000 cans of emergency drinking water to the Natalia Volunteer Fire Department in Natalia, TX, providing a critical resource to the men and women who risk their lives to protect the local community each day.
21st Amendment Brewery reaches a monumental milestone in August 2021 when they celebrate their 21st Anniversary as an iconic San Francisco brewery. To kick off their 21st year of brewing, 21st Amendment nationally releases to 32 states its handcrafted line of SOMA Hard Seltzer — the #1 Selling Craft Seltzer in Major Northern California Grocery Chains (Nielsen).
Just in time for Valentine’s Day, Baltimore-based DuClaw Brewing Company has introduced ‘Carob-Mel Sutra,’ a clever caramel twist on a bière de garde, or ‘beer for keeping’ ale, that will land on shelves in early February.
Plant-forward beverage company, Aurora Superior Sparkling Beverages, announced today the launch of its newest elevated offering – Aurora Hops, a line of non-alcoholic sparkling beverages infused with Pacific Northwest-grown hops.
Renaissance BioScience Corp., a leading global bioengineering company, is pleased to officially announce the publication of a landmark paper on lager yeast development in the February 2021 issue of Applied and Environmental Microbiology.
Financial Information Technologies, LLC (“Fintech”), the leading business solutions provider for the beverage alcohol industry, today announced that MAPCO Express, Inc has enrolled 336 of their convenience store locations. This partnership brings Fintech’s industry-leading automated beverage alcohol payments and data integration to MAPCO’s corporate locations across seven states.
After being invited to take part in two Pils & LoveFestivals north of Milan, Italy at Birrificio Italiano and drinking Italian-style Pilsner Chuckanut Brewery has brewed its own Italian Style Pilsner.
