In an effort to continue providing craft brewers access to valuable insight into the branding, marketing and distribution of craft beer, Brewbound.com will take its educational meetup series — Brew Talks — on the road for a weeklong West Coast tour that will make stops in San Diego, Los Angeles, Portland and Seattle.
Virginia is for (Boulevard Brewing) beer lovers. The Kansas City-based craft brewery — the twelfth largest in the U.S. — today announced plans to expand its distribution footprint throughout the Old Dominion State. Select offerings from Boulevard Brewing are already available in parts of Northern Virginia.
Jennifer Gratz, co-founder of the recently opened Fort Myers Brewery, knows about taking on a challenge. After all, in addition to her life as a brewer, she’s known for going up against the status quo..
These days, just about any craft brewery can pull off a beer and food pairing event, but now Dogfish Head is taking the umami experience to a whole new level. Last year’s test launch of a 60 Minute IPA-infused “hop-pickle” has evolved into a new line of beer-centric food items developed in collaboration with a… Read more »
It’ll take just a little bit longer than expected for Fat Tire to be brewed on the East Coast. Although New Belgium Brewing Company had initially planned for its new Asheville, N.C. brewery to be functional by early 2015, the company today said that it has delayed construction of the facility about eight months.
The success of Uinta Brewing’s IPA is anything but another notch on the belt. After making its debut in September of 2011, the Utah-based brewery’s Hop Notch IPA has grown to become the company’s largest single brand. Uinta president Will Hamill said the aromatic beer will represent about 35 percent of total sales before the… Read more »
After completing a nearly two-year long brewery expansion project last month, Sweetwater Brewery yesterday announced three new hires to help strengthen the company’s increased selling efforts and manage the larger production runs. Seth Herman, a 15-year executive with DIAGEO Guinness USA, joins the Atlanta-based craft brewery as its new sales director.
Jimi Hendrix sang “If a six, turned out to be a nine, I don’t mind.” And while it’s easy to imagine a brewer at hippie-dippy Magic Hat blasting Hendrix’ 1967 psychedelic rock classic “If 6 was 9” while mashing in, apparently the executives at North American Breweries (NAB) don’t follow Hendrix’s laissez-faire approach, at least when it comes to trademark law.
Make no mistake, Gary Fish, the founder and CEO of Deschutes Brewery, envisions his brand being sold in all 50 states one day. “We know we are going to get there, we just can’t tell you when we are going to get there,” he told Brewbound.com during a video interview at the 2013 Craft Brewers Conference.
A dispute over which tax relief measure they ultimately support has led to tension between the Beer Institute (BI) and some Brewers Association (BA) board members.
In celebration of American Craft Beer Week (yes it’s a real thing), market research firm Mintel released a few boozy insights that shed a bit of light on today’s beer drinker. According to a recent Mintel survey, craft beer drinkers know what they’re shopping for: 73 percent say that they know what brand they are going to buy before stepping into a retail outlet.
By going against the old “stack ’em high and watch ’em fly” adage, Duvel USA has managed to double its volume and triple its revenue over a three-year period. Simon Thorpe, the president of Duvel USA/Ommegang explained how the company has turned that neat trick during the May 2 Brewbound Session in Boston, presenting a… Read more »
Michael Binstein, the CEO of Binny’s Beverage Depot, has what he calls a battle cry: “If you can’t find it at Binny’s, it’s probably not worth drinking.” That cry is also his company’s motto and a reflection of just how successful the Midwest’s largest, independent beer wine and liquor retailer was last year.
A pair of bipartisan, beer-related bills that would reduce federal excise taxes on both small and large brewers were introduced in Congress this week. The Brewers Association (BA) — which represents the interest of America’s small and independent brewers — and the Beer Institute (BI) — which represents brewers and beer importers of varying sizes… Read more »
