Craft beer industry news.
The Boynton-Beach based craft brewery Copperpoint Brewing has announced distribution plans, partnering with Cavalier Distributing as their distributor for south Florida, specifically Broward, Dade, and Palm Beach Counties.
Bear Republic Brewing Company® claimed a silver medal at the 2015 Great American Beer Festival (GABF) competition, receiving their twenty-second medal overall. Presented by the Brewers Association, GABF is the largest national beer competition that recognizes the most outstanding beers produced in the United States. The top three winners in each category were announced September 26 at the Great American Beer Festival awards ceremony held at the Colorado Convention Center in Denver, Colorado.
150 new jobs are to be based in a new state of the art craft brewery and visitor centre created by beer and cider business The Rye River Brewing Company in Celbridge, Co Kildare. The new jobs will be created over three years and along with the investment of €4m into the new plant and visitor centre will be worth an extra €12.5m to the local economy. The new positions will be spread across manufacturing, customer service, brewing, export, general operatives and management whilst up to 100 jobs will be generated in the construction of the new brewery plant and visitor centre which is hoped to open in late Spring 2016, subject to planning.
Narragansett Beer today announces the release of Reanimator Helles Lager as the third installment in its Lovecraft Series of beers celebrating the works of famed horror author and Providence native, H.P. Lovecraft. The new brew inspired by Lovecraft’s classic tale, “Herbert West—Reanimator” brings life back to Narragansett’s previously retired Bock beer, a play on Dr. Herbert West’s obsession with resurrecting the dead.
In anticipation of Dia De Los Muertos and inspired by the profound flavors of Mexican Chocolate, The Lost Abbey will be releasing it’s newest and very limited celebratory creation; My Black Parade. Continuing The Lost Abbey’s trend in being inspired by worldly religious-based stories, My Black Parade tells the story of unrequited love being remembered each year on Dia De Los Muertos. A crowd of believers, that grows with each procession, making a yearly pilgrimage to an unmarked grave, waiting for true love to show up.
Fish Tale Ale’s Beyond the Pale Ale, produced by Fish Brewing Co in Olympia, WA was named the 2015 World’s Best Beer by the World Beer Awards. To receive this award, the beer was first judged in a regional style heat in America. Winners from all regions including Asia and Europe were then tasted against each other to select the World’s Best Style. From these world winners, the World’s Best Categories beers were selected, from which the World’s Best Beer is selected.
MadTree Brewing begins a new round of distribution of the extremely popular Citra High, part of its ‘High’ series of Imperial IPAs.
Hopheads rejoice: Alpine Beer Company’s acclaimed double IPA, Pure Hoppiness, is getting ready to make its national debut next month. It’s the first significant move for an Alpine brand that last November was acquired by Green Flash.
After aggressively adding more than 350 craft beer clients in 18 months, Crown Beverage Packaging — a leading supplier of aluminum cans for beverage manufacturers — is now struggling to keep up with demand from the very customers it sought, and is considering altering the ways it services craft customers. Over the last week, Crown began informing a number of craft breweries that it would no longer be able to fill orders of printed aluminum cans, Brewbound has learned.
ESCONDIDO, CA – To highlight the homebrewing talent that helps foster innovation among the craft beer community, Stone Brewing Co. hosts an annual Stone Homebrew Competition & American Homebrewers Association (AHA) Rally. This year’s prize-winning contender was created by Juli Goldenberg, QUAFF (Quality Ale and Fermentation Fraternity) homebrew club member and founder of the San… Read more »
Jubilation filled the air this past Saturday after Ghostfish Brewing learned that they had received two medals at the 34th annual Great American Beer Festival (GABF) competition. Watchstander Stout won the gold medal in the Gluten-Free Beer category, and Grapefruit IPA won the bronze medal in the same Gluten-Free Beer category.
In synchronized efforts to promote brand variety and independence, Alaskan Brewing is shaking up a portion of its wholesale network on the West Coast.
Sour beers are a delicious and highly sought after style in the craft beer community. San Antonio’s Ranger Creek Brewing & Distilling has just released a new sour beer as part of their Small Batch Series, and it won’t last long. Limited quantities of Small Batch Series No. 11, their apricot sour, hit retail shelves on Friday, September 25. Given the success of the brewery’s previous sour beers, the bottles will be sold out in the next 2-3 weeks.
Family is always there for you. Ommegang Brewmaster Phil Leinhart’s desire to create a soured fruit beer wasn’t a possibility at his brewery in Cooperstown. The climate and current infrastructure don’t permit it. Fortunately for him, Belgian sister-brewery Liefmans not only has the capability to make such a beer, they have been definitive standard-bearers for over three hundred years. Several phone calls, e-mails and most enjoyably – taste testings – later, Rosetta was born and ready to hit America.
