Contrary to the implications of its moniker, Knee Deep Brewing Co. isn’t stuck in any one place, and it’s not content to stand still. The Auburn, Calif.-based brewery has just reached across the country to tap Mutual Distributing Co. for statewide distribution throughout North Carolina, the company announced today, with the brewery’s full lineup of… Read more »
Longtime beer industry veteran Mike Mazzoni offered up his remarks on franchise law reform at last week’s Beer Marketer’s Insights conference in Chicago. His underlying point: the three-tier system has benefitted craft beer and franchise reform could benefit both brewers and distributors alike, but at the expense of brand equity.
Tony Magee, the founder and CEO of fast-growing Lagunitas Brewing, has lost about 20 pounds in the last 12 months. We know what you’re thinking and no, he didn’t stop drinking his own brew or start any kind of radical juice cleanse. How’d he do it? By traveling a great distance.
F.X. Matt Brewing Co., brewers of the Saranac brand, is investing $3.5 million in an Edward Street property — right across from its main brewery in Utica, N.Y. — to expand its fermenting and aging capacity. The expansion will tack on 100,000 barrels to its ultimate capacity, lifting its ceiling to half a million barrels.
Last month, the brewing community lost one its most eccentric entrepreneurs and a pioneer in craft brewing: Jack Joyce, the founder of Oregon-based Rogue Ales. Joyce, who had been living in Hawaii at the time, died suddenly of a heart attack on May 27 at the age of 71.
A well-read food blogger has convinced the world’s largest brewers to publish, for the first time, a list of ingredients used to make its most popular beers. The North Carolina-based food activist, Vani Hari, who goes by the title “The Food Babe,” yesterday launched an online campaign urging Anheuser-Busch InBev and MillerCoors to disclose a… Read more »
Start with a topic as polarizing as franchise law reform, add a couple hundred brewers, distributors and beer executives, and, inevitably, you’ll end up with plenty of engaging (and sometimes emotional) conversation. That was the case this week in Chicago at the Beer Marketer’s Insights Spring Conference, an event focused on the market for high-end… Read more »
Forty-nine states down, one to go. This July, Green Flash Brewing Co. will expand distribution to Hawaii, per an exclusive agreement with Paradise Beverages Inc. (Par Bev), leaving only one state, Utah, standing in its way of becoming a fully fledged national brand.
Beginning later this year, North Carolina’s Green Man Brewing Co. will “partner brew” out of contract brewing outfit Brew Hub’s pilot facility in Lakeland, Fla. The Lakeland brewery — the first of five contract facilities Brew Hub plans to open throughout the country — is slated to be fully operational by sometime this August.
In the beer industry, there are plenty examples of brand confusion. Then there’s the peculiar case of Pizza Port Brewing Company and Port Brewing Company, two San Diego-area breweries with very close ties to one another. For better or worse, the two companies (which also share two majority partners) have long been confused in the… Read more »
In 2010, Four Loko found itself somewhere between Legos and Windex on the definitive list of things that no human being should ever consume as compiled by screaming heads on television, concerned politicians and horrified parents alike. It was just too much booze, with too much caffeine, in too big a can, and it was bound to kill us all.
Last night, South Carolina Gov. Nikki Haley signed into law the so-called “Stone Bill,” which immediately lifts restrictions for the Palmetto State’s smaller beer companies and makes a number of key changes to the state’s current brewery license regulations.
Tamarron Consulting, known for its annual Malt Beverage Supplier Performance Survey, which polls hundreds of U.S. beer distributors and asks them to rate performance and share perceptions of the leading domestic and import brands, recently made its first foray into craft beer with its inaugural Craft Brewer Performance Survey.
This afternoon, six legislators from the state of South Carolina will hold a conference committee to parse the language of and determine the fate of what has become colloquially known as the ‘Stone Bill.’ The bill — more formerly known in the Senate as S. 1230; H. 3512 in the House — would change the… Read more »
