If today’s press release from Oskar Blues is any indication, competition in the craft beer category is poised to heat up in the New Year. The Longmont, Colo.-based craft brewery — which also owns and operates a secondary production facility in Brevard, NC — today announced plans to get more aggressive with its distribution efforts in 2014 and, to start the year, Oskar Blues said will expand into five new states
For the brewer and the drinker, the act of delving beyond the familiar creates one of the most alluring dimensions of the craft beer movement. Brewers aiming to reach this point — to define a brewery by its fabric and its fibers, rather than outside fashion — continue to make porters and stouts. And as drinkers gradually dismiss the psychological hindrances of darker beer, the creations register.
The Brewers Association has revealed that it has been reviewing keg safety for much of the past year and that it will soon release recommendations for keg performance and safety guidelines. The review comes after numerous reports of explosive failures involving kegs manufactured by Plastic Kegs America (PKA).
After more than four years of spearheading sales for fast-growing the Eugene, Ore. craft brewery Ninkasi Brewing, Marty Ochs is out as the company’s national sales director. “I gave Ninkasi everything I had and I absolutely lived and breathed the brand,” he told Brewbound. “This is the nature of the industry and this is what… Read more »
A new report from on-premise insights firm Restaurant Sciences LLC, indicates that craft beer sales have declined sharply over the last three months, but other industry sources say that’s not the case. Restaurant Sciences — which tracks food and beverage products sales throughout North America — said that volumes sales of craft beer in September,… Read more »
D.G. Yuengling Brewery will officially return to the Massachusetts market in the first quarter of 2014 with seven wholesalers, a company official confirmed to Brewbound today. Yuengling COO, Dave Cassinelli said the company has signed agreements with L. Knife & Son Inc., Seaboard Products, Craft Brewers Guild of Boston, ABI House of Quality, Girardi, Williams… Read more »
The agreements mark the first commercial movement from a potentially disruptive contract brewer with an ambitious model — one that has the flexibility to work with both emerging and well-established breweries.
As Dogfish Head’s supply catches up to demand, the Milton, Del.-based brewery continues to announce details on its re-entry into states that it had exited in March 2011. In a blog entry posted today on the brewery’s website, a Dogfish Head spokesperson writes that beer is on the way to wholesalers in Wisconsin and will… Read more »
Bell’s Brewery today announced it will expand its distribution in Pennsylvania to include 15 additional counties in the north and central regions of the state. The company has inked a distribution agreement with Durdach Brothers Inc. to sell its year-round and seasonal offerings throughout the 15-county footprint, beginning in March, 2014.
Let’s face it — Spokane probably isn’t on your bucket list. Tucked away in Eastern Washington, the city of a little more than 200,000 sits on the Idaho border, about an hour away from popular resort destinations to the East. Nationally, Spokane’s best known institution is likely the Gonzaga Bulldogs basketball program.
It’s been nearly two-and-a-half years since CBA tapped Andy Thomas, the former president of Heineken USA, to be its own president of commercial operations. During that time, Thomas has helped CBA — which produces and markets the Widmer, Kona, Redhook and Omission craft beer brands as well as Square Mile Cider — expand production from… Read more »
Green Flash Brewing isn’t a nationally distributed craft brand quite yet, but it’s getting close. The San Diego-based brewery has two states remaining, Utah and Hawaii, and it’s working to clear the remaining hurdles associated with each one. “Hawaii is tricky because we will only ship 100% refrigerated freight,” said vice president of sales Jim… Read more »
Despite several years of volume declines, Anheuser-Busch maintains its massive hold on the U.S. beer industry with a leading 47.6 percent market share and $14 billion in revenue this year, buoyed by expenditures in data-mining and innovation.
Things change quickly in the beer business. On October 16th, Lou Romano — then the director of marketing and wholesaler development at D.G. Yuengling Brewery — was helping the country’s oldest brewery evaluate the Massachusetts market for a possible reentrance in 2014.
