Craft beer industry news.
The Mass Brewers Guild, a non-profit trade association dedicated to protecting craft breweries across Massachusetts, today announces that MBG Con, the organization’s 3rd annual technical brewing and business conference, will shift to an online model starting Monday, Oct. 5 and will run through Wednesday, Oct. 7, 2020.
During this week’s Brewbound Frontlines, airing on Thursday, October 1 at 3pm ET, Herz discusses the craft beer industry’s progress toward becoming more diverse, the women she has admired in the business and hints at her next moves in the industry.
Bars and restaurants are unlikely to welcome new customers soon, as the number of people who feel comfortable going out has hit its max.
When California Gov. Gavin Newsom issued a stay-at-home order and shut down on-premise bars and restaurants to stop the spread of the COVID-19 pandemic in mid-March, 92% of San Diego-based Societe Brewing’s business was draft beer. The shutdown stopped the 1,000 tap handles pouring Societe’s beer at 700 San Diego restaurants and bars from flowing. Societe, like so many other small craft breweries, was left scrambling to figure out how to continue on.
Baja Brewing Company (BBC), the original craft brewery in the Mexican state of Baja California Sur, debuts La Surfa, the fourth beer style to be distributed in the US market.
Eagle Rock Brewery (ERB) and Norwalk Brew House (NBH) team up with legendary LA hip-hop artist, 2Mex, to release Love Fights Back; a collaboration beer with proceeds to support LA-based non-profit Urban Peace Institute.
Wiley Roots Brewing Company announced today that Brandon Banbury, Co-Founder and Head Brewer of Hailstorm Brewing Company in Tinley Park, Illinois will be moving to Greeley, Colorado in October to take over as the new Production Manager under the direction of Kyle Carbaugh, Head Brewer at Wiley Roots.
Trinity Forest Brewing Co., an up-and-coming brewery in Dallas, recently selected Ekos for its end-to-end business management capabilities. Ekos works with over 1,500 craft producers to help them manage inventory, production, sales and accounting in a single cloud-based system.
All-Star pitcher Clayton Kershaw, one of the undisputed best pitchers in baseball, has introduced Kershaw’s Wicked Curve, a craft beer developed in partnership with Master Brewer Michael Zislis and his BuzzRock Brewing Co. in Torrance, Calif.
Kicking off the official first day of fall and aiming to inspire travel during peak foliage season, Pure Michigan and Short’s Brewing Company are once again teaming up to release Pure Michigan Autumn IPA, a 100 percent Michigan-grown and harvested IPA that highlights the state’s agricultural bounty and nationally-recognized craft beer industry.
Roughhouse Brewing, a family-run farmhouse brewery located in the Texas Hill Country outside of San Marcos, has started a beer program in a new kind of cellar–a natural, underground limestone cave.
The National Pediatric Cancer Foundation (NPCF) taps into the passion and creativity of the beer industry for Brewing Funds the Cure – a lighthearted initiative designed to raise serious awareness and critical funds for pediatric cancer research.
3 Daughters Brewing in St. Petersburg announced Thursday that they have created and will begin selling a New England themed India Pale Ale beer called Former New England IPA in honor of Tampa Bay’s new football stars, who formerly hailed from the New England region.
The Stevens Point Brewery, one of America’s longest-running breweries, plans to expand with a $2.5M investment in new capacity, equipment, and capabilities.
