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While not a new beer to some, Maui Brewing Company will release Haleakala Sunryes IPA in cans for a limited time to coincide with the park’s Centennial Anniversary. This medium-bodied India Pale Ale has a deep dark copper appearance, while the rye adds an earthy and spicy character complementing the bitterness of the hops.

If you love Pelican Brewing Company’s flagship beer Kiwanda Cream Ale, you’re not alone—and now the brewery’s most popular and top-selling brew will be available in 12-packs in the grocery craft beer aisle come October. Currently sold in 6-packs, 22 oz. bottles and on-draft, Kiwanda is also one of Pelican’s most award-winning brews with 21 honors—including 13 Gold Medals—to date.

Another great homegrown-hopped beer is coming to Santa Fe Brewing Company (SFBC), and once again, we couldn’t be more excited to support local! Amalia hops, one of the two hop varieties, native to New Mexico, was recently harvested from Santa Fe Brewing Company’s hop farm and found it’s way into Santa Fe’s favorite Nut Brown Ale. Soon, it will be available to the state’s supporters of the local craft beer scene and all things grown locally.

A Highland Brewing Company perennial favorite, Thunderstruck Coffee Porter, is back this October with two coffee infusions. The lightly caffeinated, cool weather beverage is a collaboration between Highland and Dynamite Roasting Company.

Dry Dock Brewing Company has partnered with Ska Brewing Company to expand its distribution to seven counties in the Southwest corner of the state. Dry Dock’s award-winning beers are now available in Durango, Colorado.

For the final week of September and full month of October 2016, ThirstyBear introduces four new beers, including their 20TH ANNIVERSARY WET HOP HARVEST ALE, THE DECEIVER (American Tripel Double IPA), OATGRIST (English Brown Ale), and BLACK BEAR LAGER (German-style Schwarzbier).

Today, Paul J. Bertucci, executive vice president of F.E.B. Distributing Company, Inc. in Gulfport and Capital City Beverages, Inc. in Jackson, Mississippi, assumed the position of 2016-2017 chairman of the Board of Directors for the National Beer Wholesalers Association (NBWA) at the association’s 79th Annual Convention in Chicago, Illinois. As chairman, Bertucci will help guide the association as it advocates for licensed, independent beer distributors and educates elected officials, regulators, media and the public about the value of America’s open and independent distribution system and state-based alcohol regulation.

Beer just got a caffeinated kick in the beans. Oskar Blues Brewery and their in-house, coffee addiction-inspired Hotbox Roasters tag-team once again to pair roasted aromas, flavors and a frothy buzz together in Hotbox Coffee Porter.

Creature Comforts Brewing Company recently collaborated with Arizona Wilderness Brewing Company to brew Transmission, a Citrus Saison. The beer was packaged in 750-mL bottles and will be released September 29 at Creature Comforts.

This month, Blue Moon Brewing Co. celebrates the grand opening of its new brewery in Denver’s River North (RiNo) Art District, following a soft opening in early July. With 24 beers on tap and a full-service kitchen, the Blue Moon Brewery RiNo will join Blue Moon’s original Denver home base, The SandLot in Coors Field, as a hub for inspiration, ingenuity and the creation of future Blue Moon beers.

For the first time in nine years, Fireman’s Brew, the fast-growing Los Angeles-based craft beer company founded by two California firefighters, today introduces a new beer: Fireman’s Brew IPA. Released just in time for the height of the fall beer season, this new product offering is the company’s take on a bold and refreshing West Coast-style India Pale Ale (IPA) made with a delicious and aromatic blend of Cascade, Columbus, Chinook and Galena hops.

Creature Comforts Brewing Company will release its next seasonal, Epicurious, on draft and in 12-ounce cans this October. The beer was designed specifically to enjoy with food, family and friends.

Upslope Brewing Company and two local startups, Boom Algae and Living Ink Technologies, begin a collaborative project to turn brewery waste into a 100% biodegradable, non-petroleum-based, algae-ink. The system is a unique bioreactor designed to function as a zero-waste system.

The MABG has been supporting the industry since 2007, and for six years, Rob Martin, founder of Ipswich Ale Brewery, has been leading the charge. Early last week, however, the Guild appointed Rob Burns, co-founder of Night Shift Brewing, as their new President.