Craft beer industry news.
Cavalier Distributing has partnered with the U.S.’s only Trappist brewery, Spencer Brewery, and will distribute Spencer Trappist Ale immediately throughout Ohio. Brewed by the Trappist monks of St. Joseph’s Abbey (Spencer Abbey) in Spencer, Massachusetts, the Spencer Brewery is one of only 11 Trappist breweries in the world, and the first in the Americas.
Rogue Ales & Spirits announces the release of 2016 Rolling Thunder Imperial Stout, its first-ever beer aged in barrels made at Rogue’s cooperage. Brewed with ingredients grown at Rogue Farms and ocean aged in whiskey-soaked handmade barrels, Rolling Thunder Imperial Stout is the end of a long journey from ground to glass and barrel to bottle.
Pike No.4 Session IPA delivers well balanced hop flavors and aroma with a low ABV for summertime fun. This bright and floral session IPA is brewed with Skagit Valley Alba malt and the Ales for ALS proprietary hop blend. Together these ingredients create a clean and bright beer with citrus and stone fruit flavors and aroma.
Each year, Reunion Ale is brewed in memory of Virginia MacLean, a dedicated cancer research supporter who lost her own battle with Multiple Myeloma in 2007. MacLean’s wish to continue building awareness on behalf of the IMBCR is achieved through her dear friends and co-workers Alan Shapiro and Pete Slosberg’s (creator of Pete’s Wicked Ale) work with Shmaltz and Terrapin for the annual release of Reunion Ale.
Mississippi is home to more than just great beer. We’ve got great food and world famous tunes. Bramblin’ Man is a toast to Classic Country of days past. This medium bodied Bavarian Wheat Ale is fermented with blackberries in a special process that lends a touch of refreshing sourness.
In today’s increasingly competitive beer landscape, knowledge and experience are evermore critical to confidently launch a craft beer brand. Lead by veterans of the craft brewing industry, Bev-Craft is incubating and consulting breweries with a four-pronged approach that encompasses development assistance, brewhouse planning, recipe formulation, ingredient selection, brand creation, and sales strategy.
Laurelwood Brewing Co. has expanded its seasonal six-pack offerings with Portlandia Pils. The pilsner will be available for the summer alongside Laurelwood’s popular year-round offerings: Workhorse IPA, Free Range Red, and Red Elephant India Red Ale (IRA). In previous years, Laurelwood Brewing Co.’s Portlandia Pils has been released seasonally in 22 oz bottles.
Around this time last month, we were busy hosting nearly 250 beer industry professionals at the Brewbound Session in Brooklyn. Held on June 9 at the Liberty Warehouse in Red Hook, the summer 2016 edition of our bi-annual business conference featured a variety of presentations from craft entrepreneurs and panel discussions with notable industry experts.
Hoping to emulate the early success of his San Diego-based beer company Saint Archer Brewing, which was purchased by MillerCoors last September, entrepreneur Josh Landan is doubling down on the beverage business. Landan, together with current Saint Archer vice president Jeff Hansson, is preparing to launch Villager Goods, a line of food and beverage products backed by many of the same action sports figures who initially funded Saint Archer.
Shmaltz Brewing Company is thrilled to announce its collaboration with a new Missouri distributor, Artisans Cellar. The latest addition to Shmaltz’s team of distributors across the country, Artisans Cellar enhances the regional retail presence and draft availability of the award-winning craft beer line
When are you going to put Bodhi in bottles?” might be the most often-asked question of Columbus Brewing Company’s brewer and co-owner, Eric Bean about his GABF award-winning double IPA. Now that the brewery is settled into its new home on the west side of Columbus, production capacity has increased 200% and the new bottling line is up and running, the stars have aligned for CBC consumer’s dreams to become reality: Bodhi will be bottled for the first time in the company’s history.
Blackberry Farm Brewery’s native family of ales features a wide range of styles and flavors that share one extraordinary, common component: native wild yeasts harvested from across Blackberry Farm’s 4,200 protected acres at the edge of the Great Smoky Mountains. These yeast strains have been carefully gathered and maintained for Blackberry Farm Brewery by South Yeast Labs and reflect the local micro-flora unique to Blackberry Farm’s location in the mountains of East Tennessee.
Peak Organic Brewing Co. is releasing two new iterations of their flagship Peak IPA, elevating the pine and citrus characteristics to their most flavorful levels yet. Evergreen IPA & Crush IPA each begin with the bright, floral characteristics of Peak IPA, but use brand new blends that are designed to highlight two ends of the hop spectrum – pine and citrus.
63 percent of all beer sold on draft in Oregon last year was made by an in-state brewery, according to a new report from the Oregon Brewers Guild. The non-profit trade association last week reported that Oregon residents drank more than 650,000 barrels of local beer in 2015, more than 22 percent of all beer consumed in the state.
