Craft beer industry news.
The Brewers Association today released its annual rankings of the top 50 U.S. beer companies based on 2016 sales volumes. Official production data, as tabulated by the BA, won’t be released until April, but here’s how the country’s largest beer companies stacked up in 2016
The 2017 release of Fat Woody Scotch Ale has finally arrived! Available for an exceedingly limited time on draft and in 22oz bottles, Fat Woody is a variant of Silver City Brewery’s perennial fan-favorite, Fat Scotch Ale
America’s oldest brewery is evolving to a more modern look. D.G. Yuengling & Son today announced that, after three decades, it is updating the packaging for its Traditional Lager as well as Light Lager and Black & Tan porter brands.
There’s two things Cincinnati loves — beer and baseball. Braxton Brewing Company is excited to celebrate both in 2017. Beginning next week, the Covington-based brewery will can 1957 English Style Mild Ale to celebrate the baseball season.
Worthy Brewing will be holding tastings throughout Oregon and Washington on beers brewed with hops produced by Portland-based Indie Hops and Oregon State University’s Experimental Hop Breeding Program.
CraftHaus Brewery has found the cure to a common ailment known as Shiny New Toy Syndrome. This syndrome is especially found to be concentrated in the craft beer community. With the launch of Shiny New Toy, Extra Pale Ale on March 24th, a cure is now available.
Galaxy and Comet IPA, releasing for only the second time, continues The Hop Concept’s exploration into partnering select hops together.
The Christian Moerlein Brewing Co. will be introducing their popular 15 Can Brewer’s Pack in a new Variety Pack edition.
Brown’s Brewing Company of Troy and North Hoosick, NY, announces the installation of a state-of-the-art canning line allowing Brown’s to switch from bottles to cans for its independently brewed beer.
Massachusetts contract brewery Clown Shoes spread itself thin last year. On its way to producing about 12,500 barrels of beer in 2016, Clown Shoes maxed out its allotted capacity with longtime partner brewery Ipswich Ale Brewery.
What do you get when local business owners collaborate with Widmer Brothers innovation brewers in the name of fixing the historic Paul Bunyan statue in Portland’s Kenton neighborhood? Tall Paul Lager, an easy-drinking old-school style lager brewed with the local Kenton businesses to help generate awareness and raise funds to restore the local landmark.
Standard Beverage Corporation takes a strategic and momentous step forward in their commitment to improve the path to market in its Premium Beer Division. On March 7, 2017 SBC executed a Wholesale Distribution Agreement with AleSmith Brewing Company.
After producing 91,000 barrels in 2016, Narragansett Beer is setting its sights on the six-figure mark. Just three weeks removed from brewing its first batch of beer at the newly opened Rhode Island contract outfit Isle Brewers Guild, which Narragansett owns a partial stake in, sales of the venerable company’s flagship Lager brand are already up 17 percent through the first two months of 2017 and the company is poised for a year of 20 percent growth, CEO Mark Hellendrung told Brewbound.
Ordnance Brewing, the farmer owned brewery from Boardman, Oregon will take it’s two best selling beers, EOD Double IPA and Bloops Blueberry Wheat, into twelve ounce six pack cans and roll them out across Oregon and Washington in early April.
