Craft beer industry news.
A new year brings new beginnings, a renewed sense of hope, and celebration. Revelry, rejoicing, and restored excitement for a year full of new possibilities. More than ever this year we all will celebrate the things once trivial and taken for granted. Jolly Pumpkin Artisan Ales is kicking off the year with a celebration as they launch their most award-wining beer, Oro de Calabaza, in cans.
Baxter Brewing Company’s Winter NEIPA, Ice Storm of ’98, will hit shelves 23 years after the historical storm made landfall in Maine. The latest in Baxter’s seasonal offerings pays homage to the infamous winter storm that besieged the northeast United States and Canada more than two decades ago, and the resolute spirit of the Mainers that endured.
The changes at FIFCO USA are continuing into the new year, as the company parted ways with Josh Halpern, who had served as chief sales officer over the last three years.
CODO Design, a leading craft beer branding firm, is launching a new monthly email newsletter geared toward beer marketing professionals.
Second Line Brewing, one of New Orleans’ most loved neighborhood craft breweries, has added a new Hazy India Pale Ale to its lineup – the much anticipated Vacation Juice.
Indeed Brewing Company is canning and distributing Lull, its non-alcoholic CBD Seltzer, across Minnesota and Wisconsin in January 2021. Released as a taproom-exclusive in the Minneapolis and Milwaukee taprooms, Lull has been available on draft since May 2019 and in limited release cans since early this year.
A local Pennsylvania startup, BruYou, is aiming to change the way you buy drinks for your friends at breweries, bars, and restaurants.
Chihuahua Cerveza is excited to announce distribution in Oklahoma and Kansas, plans to distribute in Arkansas and New Mexico in January 2021, and distribution in Colorado, Alabama, and South Carolina by the end of Q1 2021. Chihuahua Cerveza continues as one of the fastest growing original Mexican American beer brands by teaming up with well-known beer distributors to introduce their high-quality core brands to the rest of the US; Rico (6.5 ABV), El Primero (5.0 ABV), and Limón (5.0 ABV).
Great Lakes Brewing Company (GLBC) announces a refreshed lineup for 2021 featuring new brands and artwork, returning favorites in new packages, and more canned offerings than ever before.
Tröegs Independent Brewing announces the release of its once-a-year cult classic, Nugget Nectar. And yes, the sought-after 16-oz. cans are back, too!
Magnolia Brewing, part of New Belgium Brewing Company, is now using Ekos software to power its business. Ekos, a business management software for craft producers, works with more than 1,500 breweries, cideries and wineries worldwide.
The federal Alcohol and Tobacco Tax and Trade Bureau (TTB) gave a belated holiday gift to winemakers and cidermakers on December 29: seven new permitted packaging sizes under the bureau’s standards of fill for products stronger than 7% ABV.
Boston-headquartered alcohol e-commerce marketplace Drizly announced today that its service is now available to the 4.4 million people in Atlanta and its surrounding suburbs.
A dispute in one of the most prominent families in the beer industry — the Massachusetts-based Sheehans, owners of Sheehan Family Companies, which operates beer wholesalers in 13 states and Washington, D.C. — has spilled into the court system. Timothy G. Sheehan and George L. Cushing, a trustee who represents trusts that benefit Tim Sheehan and his brother John T. Sheehan, filed a civil lawsuit in Massachusetts’ Suffolk Superior Court alleging that the patriarch and matriarch of the family, Gerald (“Jerry”) and Maureen Sheehan, have violated their fiduciary duties and misappropriated company funds.
