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Florida-based Big Storm Brewing is introducing another brew… coffee, with the introduction of Big Storm Coffee Company. 

Early this morning, Highland Brewing Company mashed in a new collaboration brew – Rustic IPA – alongside Sierra Nevada Brewing Company and independent, family-owned hop and malt suppliers including Riverbend Malthouse, Briess Malting, Crosby Hop Farms, Roy Farms and CLS Farms.

Funkwerks joins The Windy City’s bustling beer scene this week with the addition of the Chicagoland area to its distribution footprint via Windy City Distributing and a series of launch events throughout Chicagoland.

Weyerbacher Brewing has partnered with Triple Sun Spirits to create Jester’s Tale Vodka. Jester’s Tale is handcrafted in the Lehigh Valley by Triple Sun Spirits at their Emmaus location. Distilled from corn, it’s six times distilled, charcoal filtered and gluten free.

Meadowlark Brewing has just released its third installment in its popular Sipster Series of sessionable, variant IPAs.

Stoup Brewing will release Pink Socks & Sandals in their taproom on Tuesday, April 2. Made as part of the Pink Boots Collaboration Brew Day event, a portion of the proceeds from this beer will be donated to the Pink Boots Society.

Red Hare Brewing Company of Marietta, Georgia has announced that they will begin distributing in the Central Florida counties of Flagler, Volusia, Brevard, Osceola, Polk, Seminole, Orange and Lake. Further distribution has been made possible thanks to a new partnership with Sunshine State Distributing in Florida. 

Wiley Roots Brewing Company is kicking off the summer with the return of Slush, the brewery’s popular sour beer series, with a weekend launch party on April 12-14, 2019. The party includes limited to-go variants, on-site only variants, two frozen slushy machines, patio activities and a special food menu.

Cloud-based software company Ekos is releasing lot tracking functionality to both their Brewmaster and Cidermaker systems. This feature is ideal for producers who are already tracking lots, looking to meet industry standards and wanting more visibility throughout their process.

Hobbs Brewing Company announced Tuesday the launch of its new brewery in Belize. Hobbs Brewing Co., which opened as brewpub in New Hampshire, in 2014, will begin distribution with 12 oz. cans and kegs throughout Placencia, Belize, in April.

Epson has announced it is partnering with iD Products, an Epson Advantage Platinum ProFocus Partner, to showcase ColorWorks on-demand desktop inkjet label printers at the Craft Brewers Conference and BrewExpo America.

Craft beer brewers now have access to an economical solution designed to streamline quality assurance testing and achieve batch-to-batch consistency with the new Thermo Scientific BeerCraft software package for the Thermo Scientific GENESYS 50 and GENESYS 150 UV-Vis Spectrophotometers.

Dean Norris, also known as Hank Schrader from Sony Pictures Television’s hit TV series “Breaking Bad,” has announced that his company, Rust Belt Brewing, has signed a licensing agreement with Sony Pictures Consumer Products to produce Schraderbräu Beer.