It’s not just craft brewers who are expanding. Vermont Hard Cider Company, maker of Woodhcuck Hard Cider, is getting ready to break ground on a reported $22 million build-out which will double its current capacity to 600,000 barrels.
LAWRENCE, KS – American Craft Beer Week celebrates the independent spirit, craftsmanship, and community fostered by the American craft brewer. In that spirit the brewers of Free State Beer, Blind Tiger, and 23rd Street offer up the Full Kimono, an Imperial Red Ale released this Friday, May 11th.
From the now ubiquitous Samuel Adams commercials urging viewers to “Take Pride in Your Beer,” to appearances by Dogfish Head Beer founder Sam Calagione on both “The Today Show” and “The Martha Stewart Show,” craft beer has slowly made its way into American households, and is undeniably one of the fastest growing categories within the… Read more »
The Scotland based craft brewery, BrewDog, recently posted a blog on its website alleging that the world’s largest producer of spirits, Diageo, threatened to pull sponsorship of the annual BII Scotland awards if BrewDog were awarded the prize for “Bar Operator of the Year.”
To take a look at the conundrum of craft beer branding, one need look no further than the Men’s Room. Beg Pardon? Stay with me. Here we go. Men’s Room Red is a beer made by Seattle’s Elysian Brewing. Elysian is a 19,000 barrel-per-year brewing company that began in 1996 as a single brewpub;
While there was plenty of excitement in the air last week at how large the annual Craft Brewers Conference had become, a few of the more seasoned attendees had some cautionary words when asked to reflect on various challenges facing craft brewers in today’s growing market.
Another week went by and yet another brewery announced big expansion plans. This time it was the Eugene, Ore. based Ninkasi Brewing. The rapidly growing company, currently ranked 32nd on the Brewers Association list of top U.S. craft breweries by volume, announced during last week’s Craft Brewers Conference that it would be investing between $15… Read more »
Greg Koch says he’s an introvert. Recently, Greg Koch, introvert, has held a book tour, where the Stone Brewing Co. CEO has been known to stand atop a barstool with a megaphone, shouting this rallying cry: “If you are with me in sending the message to the man that says ‘no longer – no longer… Read more »
Brooklyn Brewery President and co-founder Steve Hindy had one more bomb to drop on the final day of the Craft Brewers Conference: Hindy is selling his voting shares in Brooklyn Brewery. “I am very happy,” Hindy said in an interview with Brewbound. “You can own a company and not really benefit financially, particularly a startup… Read more »
The 2012 Craft Brewers Conference has been underway for less than five hours and already people are buzzing, and it’s not from the beer. A fedora-wearing Steve Hindy, the Brooklyn Brewery President, gave this year’s keynote address to a packed room of roughly 4,500 craft industry members. Sporting a fedora is necessary, of course, if… Read more »
Oskar Blues is getting aggressive. Today, the Longmont, Colo. based brewery broke news of an east coast expansion in Brevard, North Carolina. If you’re keeping count, Oskar Blues is now the third regional brewery planning to build a second location in N.C. – Sierra Nevada and New Belgium are the others.
In a move that is particularly relevant for craft brewers — who tend to rely more on online and social media to market their products rather than traditional advertising — the U.S. Federal Trade Commission is looking into online marketing of beverage alcohol.
North Carolina is rapidly becoming the hottest destination for craft brewers to expand. Today, the Longmont, Colo. based Oskar Blues Brewery announced plans to build a 30,000 sq. ft. brewery in Brevard, North Carolina. Plans also call for a 6,000 sq. ft. restaurant and music venue and the entire project should be complete by December,… Read more »
On the eve of the 2012 Craft Brewers Conference (CBC), Bell’s Brewery President, Larry Bell, has managed to once again make the news. Last year he was squabbling with Northern Brewer over the use of the previously named “Three Hearted Ale” homebrewing kit. This year, he’s discussing a sale. Yesterday, Bell told MLive.com that he’d… Read more »
