Craft beer industry news.
Independent craft breweries throughout the greater SF and Monterey Bay Areas are joining forces to create ten special beers in the spirit of local community and cooperation, and to celebrate the 10th SF Beer Week, February 9-18. The beers will debut at the SF Beer Week Opening Gala, Friday, February 9, at Pier 35 in SF — one of the very few places all ten will be poured.
Hopworks Urban Brewery (HUB), the first Certified B Corporation brewery in the Northwest and member of 1% for the Planet, today announces the new Win-Win Partnership Series of beers.
Chris Gallant, the co-founder of New York-based Bronx Brewery, will step down this year as his family prepares for a move to California, the company announced today. Gallant, who launched the company in 2011 with head brewer, Damian Brown, will maintain an ownership stake in the business and a seat on the company’s board. However, he will no longer be active in its day-to-day operations.
Portland Cider Company is pleased to announce the release of Concord Grape as a new addition to its lineup of seasonal ciders.
Traveler Beer Company is bringing their drinkers a brand-new twist of fate, Lucky Traveler Shandy, an American craft wheat ale made with real blackberries and aptly named to be the perfect accompaniment to getting lucky.
U.S. beer volume sales were roughly flat in 2017, according to retail data provider IRI Worldwide. The market research firm, which tracks category-wide sales trends at off-premise retailers, reported that total U.S. beer dollar sales topped $34 billion in the firm’s multi-outlet and convenience (MULC) universe of stores (grocery, drug, club, dollar, mass-merchandiser and military).
The beers of Firestone Walker Brewing Company are ready to reach the Tar Heel State with distribution across North Carolina scheduled to begin this week.
Paul Saginaw, co-owner and founding partner, Zingerman’s, and Deborah Carey, founder and president of the New Glarus Brewing Company, will deliver the keynote speeches for the 2018 Craft Brewers Conference & BrewExpo America (CBC).
Great Divide Brewing will be releasing their first Local Knowledge release of 2018 this Saturday, January 20th at both taprooms.
Nickel Brook announced today that it’s highly-anticipated Café Del Bastardo will be launching at its Bottle Shop and forthcoming online store on January 27, with limited release to LCBO stores and licensees starting January 29.
The Hudson Valley’s Sloop Brewing Co. announced they will be expanding and relocating their brewery to the former IBM campus in East Fishkill.
Facing increased competition from more than 6,000 U.S. craft breweries, Green Flash Brewing today announced plans to pull distribution from 33 states in a move that will also include a 15 percent reduction of its workforce.
Terrapin Beer Co. adds Luau Krunkles Passion Fruit-Orange-Guava IPA to the Year-Round Lineup for 2018.
Three Dogpatch breweries; Harmonic Brewing, Triple Voodoo Brewery and Tap Room, and Magnolia Brewing have come together to create a unique series of collaboration beers representing the spirit of Dogpatch and the changing times in 2018.
