The country’s third largest craft brewery, New Belgium Brewing, is once again expanding its distribution footprint. On its quest to be distributed in all 50 states before 2018, New Belgium today announced it has signed wholesale agreements with six distributors in the Magnolia State:
After emerging victorious from our inaugural Startup Brewery Challenge last July, Logsdon Farmhouse Ales is finally set to rollout its collaborative brew with Widmer Brothers Brewing. As part of last year’s Brew Talks West Coast Tour, Brewbound invited four breweries to compete for the chance to create a new beer with the brewers at Widmer… Read more »
Add Founders Brewing to the growing list of craft breweries now producing more than 100,000 barrels annually (there’s 30 of them). The Grand Rapids, Mich,-based brewery cranked out 111,000 barrels in 2013, a 63-percent uptick from the 70,800 it produced in 2012. In fact, over the last six years, Founders has averaged a compounded annual… Read more »
Manhattan Beer Distributors, one of the country’s largest beer wholesalers, is taking a harder look at the cider category. The Bronx, NY-based wholesaler confirmed today that it has acquired the distribution rights to Woodchuck Hard Cider, a wholly-owned subsidiary of the C&C Group which also produces and markets the Magners, Hornsby’s and Blackthorn cider brands… Read more »
In a powerful speech, Andy Thomas, the newly-minted CEO of Craft Brew Alliance (CBA), used this year’s annual Beer Summit as a platform to fire specific and cutting remarks at the Brewers Association, the chief representative of the craft brewing movement and one that has tried to classify his products and others as something less… Read more »
In the face of continuing consolidation across the country’s middle tier, two distributors — Dora’s Naturals and Sarene Craft Beer Distributors — are giving craft brewers another route to market in New York City. Both companies are betting on continued growth in craft and have launched beer wholesale operations to service the segment in the… Read more »
Sierra Nevada Brewing had planned to brew one million barrels in 2013. The company had also planned to open its new brewery in North Carolina and grow production more than four percent. It’ll have to wait a little while. Sierra Nevada sold 985,000 barrels in 2013 — just shy of the one-million it was hoping… Read more »
Two things are true in Massachusetts right now: First, somewhere in the Bay State a child is having his tongue pried from a frozen flagpole. Second, and much more importantly, the popularity of craft beer continues to rise. At least, that’s the takeaway from the year one network of wholesalers just enjoyed.
It’s been more than a year since Avery Brewing purchased the 5.6 acre parcel of land in Boulder, Colo. that will soon be its new home and on Tuesday, the company announced that construction of a new brewery has finally begun. By this time next year, the 20-year-old craft beer company will finally be able… Read more »
It’s not a full suitcase, but Founders Brewing’s new 15-pack of All Day IPA is halfway there and might even fit in an overhead bin. The Grand Rapids, Mich.-based craft brewery today announced it will begin shipping canned 15-packs of its 4.7 percent session IPA to distributors in March, one year after the company first… Read more »
A recent push towards lower alcohol craft beer offerings has prompted Alchemy & Science — the craft brew incubation project and wholly-owned subsidiary of Boston Beer Company — to rebrand its Just Beer Project flagship. Beginning this week, A&S will relaunch “Just IPA” as “Anytime IPA.”
Mike Magoulas, the former MillerCoors executive who was appointed Boulevard Brewing’s CEO in September 2012, has resigned after less than 15 months with the company. Magoulas’ last official day with Boulevard was December 31, the same day Duvel Moortgat closed on its acquisition of the Kansas City-based company.
Dogfish Head finally eclipsed the 200,000 barrel mark in 2013, a milestone that only 11 other regional brewing companies had achieved the year prior. Led by its “family of IPA offerings” — 60-minute, 75-Minute, 90-minute, 120-minute, Sixty-One, Indian Brown Ale, Aprihop, Burton Baton and Rhizing Bines — Dogfish Head production numbers soared to 202,000 barrels,… Read more »
Nearly half of the country’s 2,722 breweries make less than 15,000 barrels of beer annually, but despite the limited capacity, a number of craft beer companies are rapidly expanding their production capabilities and distribution footprints. Lexington, Ky.-based Blue Stallion Brewing will make its first foray into retail when it begins regional distribution in February, the… Read more »
