One year after ditching a contract brewing business model for a shiny new brewing facility in Upstate New York, Shmaltz Brewing has grown its business nearly 50 percent. The company, which produces and markets a line of craft beers with tongue-in-cheek Jewish themes, had been producing its beers under contract for 17 years when it… Read more »
In Naturalis Historia, Vol. VI CB, Pliny the Elder wrote, “In these matters, the only certainty is that nothing is certain.” How ironic then, that Russian River Brewing Co.’s famed imperial IPA, named after the abovementioned Roman philosopher, has by all accounts been certainty in a bottle for several years.
Want a sneak peek at the new Dogfish Inn? Brewbound traveled to Lewes, Del. last month to checkout the brewery’s new digs. What we discovered was a modern 16-room motel that was cozy, relaxed and elegant, all at the same time.
The next toehold for Gambrinus as it attempts to fill out a national distribution footprint for Shiner, its most popular brand, will be Massachusetts. Gambrinus, the country’s fourth-largest craft brewery, will launch Shiner in the Bay State in late July, Burke Distributing’s vice president of sales, Scott Adams, confirmed to Brewbound.
Constellation Brands, Inc. today reported a significant increase in first quarter sales, earnings and cash flow, driven primarily by its growing beer business. In its first quarter of fiscal year 2015, the international beer, wine and spirits company increased net sales 127 percent, earning $1.5 billion.
L.A.’s Golden Road Brewing and global restaurateur HMSHost have partnered to release the first craft beer made exclusively for airports, Carry On Citrus Ale. The new beer, which will be sold exclusively in Golden Road-branded 16 oz. cans, will initially rollout to 11 western airports on July 4.
Founders Brewing Co. today announced it will release Dark Penance, an imperial black IPA, in October. The specialty beer will be available throughout the Grand Rapids, Mich.-based brewery’s distribution footprint until the end of the year.
With the first half of the year now in the rearview mirror, prudent craft beer entrepreneurs are analyzing the latest IRI figures and benchmarking their own performances through the first six months of 2014. And for those brewery owners with limited access to expensive off-premise channel data, Brewbound has you covered with the latest numbers… Read more »
After nearly four years of brewing at capacity, Smuttynose Brewing Co., now fully operational in its new facility in Hampton, N.H., has more room to grow and is extending its reach both at home and abroad. Beginning Tuesday, Smuttynose’s beers will be available in the cities of Chattanooga and Cleveland, Tenn.
Earlier this month, Golden Road Brewing and its founder, Meg Gill, took center stage in a parody rap video posted to the YouTube page of Los Angeles comedian Nikki Muller. A spoof of the 2001 Ludacris classic, ‘Area Codes,’ Golden Road’s version playfully mocks many ‘area code’ craft beer labels like Firestone Walker’s 805 Blonde Ale and Goose Island’s 312 Urban Wheat Ale.
There’s just no slowing down Founders Brewing Company. The craft brewery, which is based in Grand Rapids, Mich., has grown at a 67 percent compound annual growth rate since 2008, while its on-premise points of distribution are up 61 percent this year. Sales of All Day IPA, Founders’ flagship brand, are up a remarkable 138… Read more »
Oregon’s affinity for local craft beer has reached an unprecedented high, as more than 18 percent of all beer consumed in the state last year was locally produced, according to the Oregon Brewers Guild. Of the 1.4 million barrels the state’s breweries produced last year—an uptick of 8 percent over the year prior—500,000 were sold… Read more »
Another week, another round of discussion about franchise laws, and this time it’s by way of the Boston Consulting Group, a global management-consulting firm and advisor on business strategy. The group, which said it has studied direct store delivery (DSD) across multiple consumer categories for more than 20 years, published a report crediting much of… Read more »
With sustained controversy at the London Metal Exchange (LME) posing potentially long-term negative implications for the American brewing industry, among others, the U.S. House of Representatives will vote on a bill today that, if passed, will ensure the U.S. Commodity Futures Trading Commission (CFTC) reviews the nation’s metal warehousing practices more critically.
