Craft beer industry news.
Ninkasi Brewing is expanding its distribution footprint once again, this time to Utah. The Oregon-based brewery has inked a deal with General Distributing Company of Salt Lake City for coverage throughout the state, it announced Thursday. Beginning this week, Ninkasi beers will be available throughout Utah in both 12 oz. and 22 oz. bottles.
FCB (Fort Collins Brewery) announces the return of its spring seasonal brew, Maibock for the 11th consecutive year on Friday.
Bud Light is bringing back America’s most unpredictable town, Whatever, USA, and giving beer drinkers who are #UpForWhatever the chance to experience the weekend of a lifetime. Fresh on the heels of the House of Whatever, Bud Light’s #UpForWhatever experience at Super Bowl XLIX in Phoenix, the brand will keep the celebration going strong with the return of Whatever, USA, this summer.
In early March, Odell Brewing will release Brazzle Sour Golden Raspberry Ale. Part of the brewery’s Cellar Series, Brazzle is an oak aged golden ale brewed with golden raspberries.
Cape May Brewing Company’s new brew house — capable of producing 15,000 barrels (or 472,500 gallons) per year — is on its way. But before any beer can be made, grain needs to be milled. And thanks to this week’s delivery of a Hungarian Roppi 1100 machine – which can process 2,425 pounds of grain per hour – CMB is geared up and ready to go.
New Belgium Brewing is releasing 2015’s La Folie and Transatlantique Kriek while reissuing a new Cocoa Molé, offering an inventive mixture of sour, sweet, heat and tradition. Two of these Lips of Faith additions (Transatlantique Kriek and La Folie) will remain out through the remainder of 2015 and Cocoa Molé will be out through March, or while supplies last.
Over the next three weeks, Oregon’s Deschutes Brewery will miss out on an opportunity to bottle about 15,000 barrels of beer. The 27-year-old craft brewery is in the process of installing a new Krones bottling line that is capable of filling more than 560 bottles per minute, 47 percent more than Deschutes’ current system.
Green Flash Brewing has announced plans for the national rollout of Cellar 3, a series of rare, barrel-aged beers produced in its newly minted second facility of the same name. Located in Poway, Calif., Cellar 3 provides the company with 12,000 sq. ft. of additional room to expand its barrel-aging program and experiment with wild yeast, two endeavors the company’s Mira Mesa facility lacked adequate space for.
Would a Colorado craft brewery ever sell to “big beer?” That’s the question Eric Gorski of the Denver Post posed over the weekend, surveying Colorado brewery owners for their reactions to Anheuser-Busch InBev’s recent craft acquisitions. “There’s a Colorado-sized hole on the growing map of U.S. craft breweries now in the hands of corporate owners,” he wrote. Gorski checked in with a few of the state’s top craft players to get a sense of who might be interested in selling.
Barrels & Bottles Brewery in downtown Golden was just named the 2014 Golden Chamber of Commerce Business of the Year. This longstanding recognition is dedicated annually to a for-profit member of the Golden Chamber of Commerce that has contributed to both the local economy and to regional activities in exceptional ways
Leadership expert and anthropologist Simon Sinek will deliver the keynote address at the Craft Brewers Conference & BrewExpo America® (CBC) in Portland, Oregon on April 15. Presented by the Brewers Association, CBC is the industry’s largest gathering, bringing together some 11,000 brewing professionals.
Rochester Mills Production Brewery is pleased to announce it has begun distributing select beers from its portfolio in Florida by partnering with Gold Coast Eagle Distributing Company and Pepin Distributing who will represent the company’s brands in the Sarasota and Tampa marketplaces, respectively.
Heineken USA announces the return of the Beers of Mexico variety pack with limited edition offering, Dos Equis Azul – a blend of signature golden wheat lager and blue agave. Dos Equis Azul will once again join Heineken USA’s outstanding Mexican beers—Dos Equis Lager, Tecate and Sol—in one convenient Fiesta Pack. The pack will be supported with seasonally relevant cross-merchandising offers (where legal) designed to enhance any gathering or at-home social occasion.
Today, Angry Orchard announced the national release of its first-ever hopped hard cider, Angry Orchard Hop’n Mad Apple. The cider makers drew inspiration for this new cider from a traditional craft beer ingredient – hops – to develop a cider that combines subtle floral and tropical fruit notes from Strisselspalt and Galaxy hops with bright, fresh apple flavor from American apples.
