Craft beer industry news.
On an endless exploration of goodness,Dogfish Head is proud to be a craft brewery producing and celebrating sour and wild ales for over two decades and is excited to announce the launch of its brand new, funky wild beer program, “Wooden…It Be Nice!”
As the U.S. brewing industry inches closer to a record 7,000 craft beer companies in operation, hundreds of distressed breweries are expected to close in 2019 and many of those failed enterprises will turn to asset auctions as a way to pay off debt. Brewers Association chief economist Bart Watson told Brewbound during a live-streamed interview at last week’s California Craft Brewers Association Summit that he anticipates as many as 300 brewery closures by the end of 2018. According to Watson, he expects the gap between openings and closings to shrink over time, and there could be as many as 500 closures in the next couple of years. The increasing number of brewery closures has also meant an uptick in business for auction houses.
Beer, Boston and baseball are coming together like never before, thanks to Harpoon Brewery and retired baseball legend Kevin Youkilis. Announced today, Harpoon will contract brew two beers from Youkilis’ award-winning California-based brewpub Loma Brewing Company: Greek God of Hops Double IPA and Appeasement IPA, for distribution in Massachusetts and Rhode Island this fall.
Big Storm Brewing Co. and Fat Point Brewing are releasing specialty Ales for ALS brews.
Having enjoyed great success in the US for over 6 years, Glutenberg, the Montreal-based gluten-free brewery, is proud to announce they will be expanding their distribution to a new state: Florida.
Springdale Beer just launched the second blend in their Beta Blend Series, which takes beer collaborations out of breweries and into kitchens. The second in the series was brewed in collaboration with the team at Craigie on Main, a rustically inspired restaurant with a changing daily menu located in Cambridge, MA.
Rekorderlig, the premium hard cider brand from Sweden, announced the launch of Hård Äpple in the United States.
Rivertowne Brewing, an independent craft brewery located just outside of Pittsburgh in neighboring Murrysville/Export and Zeke’s Coffee Pittsburgh announce the release of their cold-brewed, coffee-fueled collaboration – Zeke’s Coffee Brown Ale.
As the nation pays hommage to the third most popular drink overall after water and tea during National Beer Lover’s Day, Medalla Light beer will mark the occasion by introducing in Florida its popular 12 oz. bottle as it reaches the milestone of 1,000 point of sales in the state.
Brewed in Central, OR each beer is unique to supporting a national military-veteran non profit organization.
DBI Beverage Inc., corporate parent of a consolidated group comprising one of the largest beverage distributors in California and in the country, has named Paul M. Schmitt as Chief Executive Officer, effective January 1, 2019.
Nearly two years after publicly declaring an interest in opening a farmhouse brewery in Connecticut, popular Massachusetts craft beer maker Trillium Brewing Company has purchased a farm in North Stonington, about two hours outside of Boston. In a blog post, JC and Esther Tetreault, the husband-and-wife team that co-founded Trillium in 2013, said they bought the farm in order to fulfill their dream of opening a farm brewery near where they were married in the pastoral region of Connecticut.
PGA TOUR golfer Graham DeLaet and Idaho-based craft brewery Payette Brewing Company are proud to announce a collaboration bringing DeLaet’s craft beer, Prairie Baard Golden Ale, to the United States.
The new Frog Alley Brewing Company, located in the Mill Artisan District on lower State Street in downtown Schenectady, is getting ready to launch, and the craft brewery today announced the hiring of Master Brewers Rich Michaels and Drew Schmidt.
