Craft beer industry news.
Back in 2014, well before Barrel House Z founder Russ Heissner opened the Weymouth-based brewery, he took a field trip to Night Shift Brewing. As Harpoon’s first head brewer back in 1986, Heissner wasn’t new to the craft beer business, but he wanted a better sense of how the industry was evolving.
Olympia, Washington-based Fish Brewing Company announced Tuesday that it has been sold to Josh Carrigan and Kate Craig after entering receivership earlier this year, the Olympian reported. Bloomington, Minnesota-headquartered Granite City Food & Brewery announced Tuesday that it has filed for Chapter 11 bankruptcy. The owners of Barley Forge Brewing agreed on Wednesday to sell their business to the owners of Green Cheek Beer Co.
Portland based Ecliptic Brewing is releasing their Tucana Tangerine Sour Ale in 500ml glass bottles as part of their “All the Time” Series in January of 2020. This sunset-hued sour ale, which first launched last spring in 12-ounce cans, was originally part of Ecliptic’s Seasonal Series, but the company saw room for growth with the brand.
The Rincon Band of Luiseño Indians is proud to announce the debut of Rincon Reservation Road Brewery (3R Brewery), the first certified Native American owned and operated brewery on tribal land in Southern California.
Wyndridge Farm, located at 885 S. Pleasant Avenue, Dallastown, PA 17313, is excited to introduce two new brands. Necessity always leads to innovation, and after years of Wyndridge Beverage improving their process, Wyndridge Cider Company & Winding Path Brewing Company is born.
Independence Brewing Co. has announced the release of Up and Down: Brazil, its first packaged nitro coffee beer. The fall/winter seasonal is a coffee blonde ale brewed in collaboration with pioneering Austin-based coffee roaster, Little City Coffee Roasters, and features direct trade beans from an award-winning micro lot in the largest coffee producing region in the world.
Brewing out of a 9,000 square feet former automotive radiator shop converted into a state-of-the-art production brewery and taproom in West Berkeley, Gilman Brewing Company expands to a second location with a new taproom and gastropub now open in Daly City (2001 Junipero Serra Blvd).
Costa Rica-headquartered FIFCO today named beverage industry veteran Rich Andrews as the next CEO of FIFCO USA. Andrews will supplant Adrian Lachowski, whose planned exit from the company was announced last week.
With just one month left in 2019, off-premise beer dollar and volume sales appear poised to finish in the black. Through the first 11 months of 2019, off-premise beer category dollar sales in multi-outlet and convenience stores tracked by market research firm IRI are up 5.2%, to nearly $34.5 billion, while volume sales are up 2.3%. The largest dollar sales growth in 2019 thus far has come from flavored malt beverages, including hard seltzers.
Beer, wine and spirits companies are a signature away from another year of federal excise tax relief. The U.S. Senate today passed a tax extender package that includes a one-year extension of the tax relief in the Craft Beverage Modernization and Tax Reform Act (CMBTRA) that was slated to expire at the end of 2019.
Wormtown Brewery at Patriot Place officially opened as Foxborough’s first brewery and taproom in a ribbon cutting ceremony Wednesday, December 11.
The weekend before Christmas, Bent Water Brewing Co. will debut the next beer in its series of taproom-only can releases.
Shipyard Brewing Company, Maine’s largest craft brewery, announces the further expansion of its global strategy by establishing an “International Brewing Alliance” to exchange signature brews with their new partners down under.
As of Friday, December 13th in the MBC Kihei Restaurant and Tasting Room, Maui Brewing Company has released the final beer in a series of variations of the award-winning Imperial Coconut Porter, Haupia Malasada.
