Craft beer industry news.
Pacific City, Ore. — Consistent with their independent spirit and award-winning creativity rooted at Oregon’s rugged coast, Pelican Brewing Company has re-imagined an alternative method to dry hop beer. Driven by a desire to create a more efficient and safer method to dry hop, Pelican’s brewmaster Darron Welch looked to the collaborative talent of Portland’s… Read more »
Ninkasi Brewing Company, an independent craft brewery based in Eugene, Oregon, announces a new look for its Flagship Series Stout, Vanilla Oatis. New Vanilla Oatis branding will roll out on all packages starting late August across the brewery’s distribution territory. For the first time, fans will also be able to find Vanilla Oatis in 12oz. 6-packs.
O’Fallon Brewery, one of the largest and first craft breweries in the St. Louis area, has launched four new pumpkin beers just in time for autumn. The new beers, Vanilla Pumpkin, Jack O’Latté, Apple Cinnamon Pumpkin and Peach Pumpkin, are now available at retail locations for a limited time in a 12-pack pumpkin variety pack.
SteadyServ Technologies, the first data-as-a-service company for the global draft beer market, announces Kegonomics™ – a data analytics platform for purveyors of draft beer. Measuring precise, real-time keg depletion data through SteadyServ’s Internet of Things solution, Kegonomics displays where draft beer waste occurs and provides actionable intelligence to increase beverage profit.
To commemorate the first-ever Copenhagen Beer Celebration (CBC) in Boston this September, the brewers from Samuel Adams and Mikkeller, both celebrated for their passion for innovation, experimentation, and collaboration teamed up to craft Bugs & Berries.The distinct brew incorporates ingredients native to the regions where both brewers call home. The CBC (Copenhagen Beer Celebration) beer festival has been held for years in Copenhagen, Denmark and features many craft breweries from around the world. The brewers are now bringing the festival to the U.S. for the first time September 23-24.
Bad Martha Brewing Company of Martha’s Vineyard has introduced (508) IPA, a new and hoppy IPA named after the Island’s eponymous area code. The Company also said that Bad Martha Beer continues to expand and is now available in Connecticut in addition to Massachusetts and Rhode Island, where the beer may be found in over 500 locations.
Good People Brewing Co., the oldest and largest craft brewery in the state of Alabama, announces their sour beer program, The Funk Farm. Funk Farm is Good People’s program for brewing mixed-fermentation sour ales. Unlike the year-round offerings, beers in the Funk Farm series are fermented with non-traditional microbes and wild yeast to produce a variety of complex flavors.
Upland Brewing Co. announces today that they will release Two of Tarts, a tropical gose with mango and passion fruit, in late August. It will be on draught in bars throughout their distribution area as well as at Upland brewpubs and tap rooms as part of the Side Trail Series.
At just shy of three years old, Ecliptic Brewing announces a standout update to their All the Time Series design. The focus at Ecliptic is about creating a sense of place in both the restaurant and the beer they build. The first few years have also been focused on getting the Ecliptic brand in front of people and on the shelf. Recently, the team decided that it was time to hone in the personality of their core beers and let that shine with a move toward custom art.
Two Roads Brewing Company is proud to announce that their Märzen lager, Ok2berfest, will now be available in 16 oz can 4-packs in addition to draft. For the past three years, this Oktoberfest style beer has only been available on tap in select bars and restaurants. Master Brewer Phil Markowski created this version of the classic Märzen-style lager to pay tribute to the beer traditionally served at the Munich Oktoberfest. It possesses a smooth, toasty malt profile with the crisp character of a traditional German brew.
There are subtle but unmistakable signs that announce the arrival of fall. That first crisp afternoon – the sun is bright but there’s a slight chill in the air. And then there are the first few leaves that start to turn on the trees. Perhaps the most telling, there’s the first day at the brewery when almost everyone shows up in flannel. In celebration of the New England fall, the employee owners of Harpoon are proud to introduce Flannel Friday, the brewery’s first new fall seasonal offering since 1989.
Remember way back in 2011 when Stone Brewing said it was planning to build a hotel on the property adjacent to its California brewery? Well today, the San Diego-area craft beer company said it has entered into a licensing agreement with Untitled Hospitality to develop 13 acres of land next to Stone’s Escondido brewing facility.
With sales of its canned beers doubling during the past six months, Saint Arnold Brewing Co. (www.saintarnold.com), the oldest craft brewery in Texas, is expanding its canning program to include two additional year-round brews. Six-packs of 12-ounce cans of Saint Arnold Weedwacker and four-packs of 12-ounce cans of Saint Arnold Endeavour Double IPA are arriving in stores this week.
Rheonix Inc., a developer of fully automated molecular testing solutions, announces the launch of its Beer SpoilerAlert™ assay for use on the Encompass Optimum™ workstation. This is the first fully automated assay for detecting beer spoilage organisms and the first assay to simultaneously detect microorganisms and hops-resistance genes. Rheonix will showcase this new technology at the World Brewing Congress Aug.13-17 in Denver.
