Craft beer industry news.
It took just six months for Anheuser-Busch InBev to expand distribution for 10 Barrel Brewing, the Bend, Ore. craft brewery it purchased last November. The company today announced it would launch in Colorado this month, the fourth state where its beers are currently sold.
You could call it a bunch of Monkee business—a beer meticulously brewed in the classic Belgian Quadrupel style, but aged for more than a year in retired bourbon barrels to create a stylistic outlier now known as a “Central Coast Quad.”
In recent years, barrel-aged beers have become some of the world’s most coveted creations. Crafting them typically involves sequestering heavy stouts or barley wines in whiskey barrels for long periods of time. It’s a straightforward and successful method utilized by many in the brewing industry.
Over the years, the brewers at Samuel Adams have released hundreds of beer styles, and crafted more than 60 styles last year alone. Although they may not all be in current rotation, they are far from forgotten.
To meet growing demand for its beers, Prescott Brewing Company has expanded its canned offerings. Achocolypse has joined Ponderosa IPA and Liquid Amber Ale, becoming the brewery’s third beer available in Rexam 12 oz. cans.
Left Hand Brewing Co. introduces Introvert Session IPA for American Craft Beer Week and just in time for summer!
Terminal Gravity is happy to announce the seasonal release of Wallowa Lake Lager. Following a successful, but limited small batch release in the spring of 2014, TG is set to make this pre-prohibition style pilsner more available throughout the late spring and summer season.
Georgia craft beer fans rejoice! Athens, Georgia, brewery Creature Comforts Brewing Co. will be releasing a limited amount of its newest beer, DaySpring, to the Athens and Atlanta areas today May 11, 2015.
After eight months of anticipation, Hi-Wire Brewing’s new 30 barrel brewhouse has arrived in the mountains of western North Carolina.
Mispillion River Brewing has signed distribution agreements with three Maryland distributors: Sentman Distributing, Kelly Distributing, and Eastern Shore Distributing.
Henniker Brewing Company is proud to announce the expansion into the neighboring state of Maine. Henniker Brewing Company has partnered with Pine State Trading Company out of Gardiner, Maine, to start distribution of the brewery’s line-up of beers, in both 22oz bottles and on draft beginning in May 2015.
A half-million dollars ought to be enough. That’s the point that brewing giant Anheuser-Busch is trying to make in a lawsuit against a New Jersey beer wholesaler over the transfer of Elysian Brewing products to A-B’s own network of distributors in the state.
CraftWorks Restaurants & Breweries, Inc., the largest craft brewery restaurant operator in the country, announced today that in honor of American Craft Beer Week®participating locations will offer exclusive specials, tapping parties and dinners in celebration of the culture and community of craft brewers across the United States. CraftWorks’ concepts include Gordon Biersch Brewery Restaurants, Rock Bottom Restaurants & Breweries and Old Chicago Pizza & Taproom.
Hi-Wire’s summer seasonal, Uprisin’ Hefeweizen, will hit shelves May 13th and will be available in stores and bars through July. A traditional German style Hefeweizen, Uprisin’ utilizes the availability of local malted wheat in Asheville to create a beer with a connection to place.
