Add New Ulm, Minn.-based August Schell Brewing Company to the long list of small breweries investing in expansion projects. Kyle Marti, Schell’s director of sales and marketing, told Brewbound.com on Wednesday that the company plan to break ground in May on a $2 million expansion project that will increase brewing capacity by 100,000 barrels before… Read more »
Fresh off a year of 50 percent revenue growth, the addition of a second brewing facility in North Carolina and successful rollouts in four new markets, Oskar Blues announced yesterday that it will again expand distribution, adding Michigan as the company’s 31st state. Oskar Blues will launch in the Great Lakes state on March 4… Read more »
The steps toward brewery expansion hold consistent themes, regardless of scale or vision. A nanobrewer hoping to seize the attention of a region and a craft brewer with limitless goals often follow a similar, occasionally subconscious mantra: every day, grow incrementally. To that end, we sat down with Heather Sanborn of Rising Tide Brewery and Luke Livingston of Baxter Brewing Co. to hear their thoughts about brewery development in the latest edition of Brewbound’s Brew Talks.
Despite limited distribution in the U.S., Spokane, Wash.-based No-Li Brewhouse announced that it will begin exporting its beer to Sweden. John Bryant, No-Li’s co-founder, told Brewbound.com that the decision to export the company’s beer over 4,000 miles away from home was largely based on its success in international competitions.
One of the country’s oldest breweries will soon drop anchor at a secondary production facility. Anchor Brewing will begin construction on its new Pier 48 brewery in late 2014 and expects to complete the buildout by late 2015. The new facility, to be located across from the San Francisco Giants baseball stadium, will quadruple the… Read more »
Founders Brewing Company recently announced information regarding four limited-edition beers that will rotate through its catalog. The brewery’s All Day IPA will be released on March 1 and will be available on shelves and on draft through September. The IPA is brewed with a mix of malts, grains and hops, packs a 4.7 percent ABV… Read more »
After years of refusing to put his beer in cans, Jim Koch — the founder of Boston Beer Company (BBC) — believes he’s finally found a package worthy of his brewery’s flagship offering, Boston Lager. Slated for an early summer release, the “Sam Can,” as Boston Beer’s brewers have termed it, is the result of… Read more »
The country’s largest craft brewer, Boston Beer Company, is enjoying impressive sales growth in the convenience channel to begin 2013, up over 25 percent through a four-week period ending Jan. 19. Those numbers, and others, seem to confirm a growing presence for at least the country’s best-established craft beer brands in convenience stores.
Brewbound.com today announced that it will host its next in an ongoing series of BrewTalks at the Great Lost Bear in Portland, Maine. New England-based beer industry professionals are invited to attend the free event, which will begin at 7 P.M. on Wednesday, Feb. 20. Launched in January, the Brew Talks series is a set… Read more »
The Brewbound New Beer Guide has been added as a supplement to the digital Jan/Feb issue of BevNET magazine. The guide features over 300 new and seasonal beers from over 115 craft breweries.
A recent agreement ending a U.S. Federal Trade Commission (FTC) action against controversial flavored malt beverage maker Phusion Projects, LLC could have future implications for the craft beer industry. On Tuesday, Phusion agreed to change its packaging and add an additional label statement about its alcohol content on cans and bottles of its Four Loko product.
Consumers hoping to locate their favorite craft beers have a new tool courtesy of World Class Beer (WCB), an association of craft and specialty beer minded distributors. WCB last week announced the release of its “Craft Beer Locator” app, which is compatible with iPhone, iPad and iPod touch devices and boasts location information for 100,000… Read more »
When it comes to stacking awards from the Vail Valley Chamber of Commerce & Tourism Bureau (VVP), Crazy Mountain Brewery is tough to beat. Earlier this month, the VVP honored the Vail, Colo.-based brewery as the Mid-Size Business of the Year, an award given to a company that demonstrates ethical business practices, professionalism, and strong community involvement.
With new distribution in Northern California, a recent brewery expansion, and plans to dramatically increase production in 2013, Hangar 24 Brewery is flying fast and thinking big. The Redlands, Calif.-based brewery debuted in the San Francisco market in January, marking the largest expansion in its distribution since launching in 2008.
