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CraftBeer.com, the beer lover website published by the Brewers Association, today revealed a striking redesign to enhance the experience for its growing audience. With a brand new interface, the site features a fresh logo, offering a clearer brand identity, and creates a cleaner way to access the robust catalogue of resources via four distinct sections: Beer, Breweries, Food and News.
Founders Brewing — maker of the popular All Day IPA and coveted KBS brands — will expand distribution to the Pacific Northwest in 2017. The Grand Rapids, Michigan-based brewery announced Monday that it would extend its footprint to Washington, Oregon and Idaho through the Great Artisan Beverage network of wholesalers. “The Pacific Northwest has long… Read more »
As the air turns cooler and days become shorter, cozying up next to the fire with a smooth and rich winter beer sounds like the perfect ending to any day. With that in mind, Rusty Rail Brewing Co. recently released its winter seasonal, Snow Flyer H.C. Porter.
Urban Artifact, Cincinnati’s wild culture expert, is set to release the first canned beer offerings since opening as draft-only in April 2015. A can launch event in the brewery’s Northside taproom, located at 1660 Blue Rock Street, is set for December 9 at 4pm. The initial launch will include Finn (Berliner Pale Ale) and Sliderule (Chocolate Raspberry Gose).
This weekend, Drake’s Brewing Co. released its 2016 Jolly Rodger Ale. For more than two decades, Drake’s has stuck to a tradition of brewing a totally new beer every year for Jolly Rodger. Brewmaster John Gillooly describes this year’s version as a Transatlantic Winter Warmer.
Regional craft brewery Ale Asylum is poised to spread some holiday cheer by launching their first variety pack, Feliz Gravitas. This gravity-focused release features Off Switch, a Double IPA that debuted at their 2016 Ferment Dissent Imperial Stout Festival. The other two brands in the six-pack include Big Slick Stout and Mercy Grand Cru.
The high end beer segment is poised to grow by 170 million cases over the next two years, according to Constellation Brands executive vice president Paul Hetterich. Speaking to more than 200 beer industry professionals attending the Beer Marketer’s Insights winter seminar, Hetterich, as well as leaders from Anheuser-Busch InBev and MillerCoors, discussed the consumer shift toward high end products and their companies’ strategies for competing in that segment.
On Black Friday, Nantahala Brewing Company will release 22 ounce bottles of its next specialty beer, Midnight Topher, a stout infused with locally produced Tribal Grounds Coffee Roasters espresso beans. Created by Head Brewer Chris White, this espresso-style stout was inspired by White’s past work and his present career
We’ve come up with a new year-round beer that will see distribution in our 28 states starting this December! Frederick H. is a tart, wheat-based beer 100% fermented in American-made oak foeders.
ThirstyBear Organic Brewery is thrilled to team up with Beers Made By Walking for a limited-edition release of COASTAL IPA, one of 14 local beers inspired by the trails of Mount Sutro. Local brewers, Beers Made By Walking, and Sutro Stewards collaborated to create these hike-inspired beers. Sutro Stewards led the public and 18 brewers including ThirstyBear’s brewmaster Brenden Dobel on hikes throughout Mount Sutro in the geographic center of San Francisco in search of specialty ingredients.
In our latest distribution roundup, Upland Brewing expands to Boston; Forbidden Root inks agreements with Cavalier in Ohio and Florida and Ghostfish Brewing expands to Eastern Washington and Idaho.
As Stone Brewing expands across the country and the Atlantic, the 20-year-old brewery nods to its San Diego roots with the release of Stone Ripper. The “San Diego Pale Ale” boasts a wave of citrus and passion fruit hoppiness. The beer will be packaged in 12oz can six-packs and available exclusively in California starting this week, with national distribution to begin in January, 2017.
Summit Brewing Company announces the release of 30th Anniversary English-Style Barleywine Ale, the fourth and final entry in their 30th Anniversary Series. The beer will be officially released at the Summit Beer Hall on Saturday, November 19. It will also be available in 4-packs of 12 oz bottles and in a limited amount of draught starting the week of November 14.
Many breweries, both small and large, use a three kettle system to brew beer as opposed to a more traditional four kettle system. One of the kettles pulls double duty and serves as both a mash and a lauter tun. The vessel needs to heat and maintain mash to a specific temperature. One degree can mean the difference between a good batch of beer and having to pour it down the drain. Typically a temperature sensor is placed on the wall of the kettle, away from the rake, to correlate what the temperature is throughout the kettle; a process that has proven to be inaccurate and causes a lot of batch-to-batch variation. This is not what a brewmaster, much less a beer connoisseur, wants to hear.
