Craft beer industry news.
Milwaukie, Oregon – Breakside Brewery presents their first ever Milwaukie Oktoberfest celebration on Saturday, October 11th at their production brewery & tasting room in Milwaukie, Oregon. For the first time the tasting room will be open to all-ages with kids activities as well as a special German-themed tap list and food menu from Breakside’s NE… Read more »
PORTLAND, Ore. — Hopworks Urban Brewery (HUB) is releasing the cult-classic Abominable Winter Ale beginning in October. This Northwest Organic Winter Ale is available in 16 oz. cans, 22 oz. bottles and on draught in Oregon, Washington, Idaho and British Columbia bars, pubs, and stores.
Three craft brewers and one ‘big beer’ executive walk into a room of beer distributors at 9:00 a.m. One of them pulls out a vaporizer. I forget how the rest of that joke goes, but everyone ends up laughing. That was the scene this morning at the 77th annual National Beer Wholesalers convention, being held in New Orleans.
PROVIDENCE, R.I.—Narragansett Beer today announces the rerelease of Autocrat Coffee Milk Stout, a unique collaboration between two Rhode Island staples. Introduced in December 2013 as Narragansett’s first-ever “Hi Neighbor Mash-Up,” Narragansett Autocrat is a custom blend of Narragansett’s bittersweet milk stout with coffee extract from the famed Autocrat Coffee, the key ingredient in the Ocean… Read more »
A couple years ago, Ballast Point foresaw a distribution footprint that would include 35 states. In the words of chief commercial officer Earl Kight, however, the company is “still stuck” at 26. It’s not that the San Diego brewery hasn’t grown: Ballast Point made the Brewers Association’s list of the 50 largest craft brewers for the first time this year, having sold 88,204 barrels in 2013, up 86 percent over the previous year.
NEW ORLEANS, LA — The National Beer Wholesalers Association (NBWA) is excited to announce that Rick McAmis of Premium Beverage Sales in Springfield, Missouri, is the winner of the Second Annual Share Your Story Contest for beer distribution employees. McAmis was recognized on stage today during the general session of NBWA’s 77th Annual Convention taking… Read more »
Another top-50 craft brewery has sold a piece of its business to private equity. Atlanta’s SweetWater Brewing today announced that it has sold minority interest to TSG Consumer partners, a private equity firm that invests in middle-market consumer brands.
Attention beer geeks! Your next pint of Pliny could be coming from Paso Robles. Russian River Brewing, the award-winning craft brewery from Santa Rosa, Calif. today announced that it will produce a limited amount of its acclaimed flagship, Pliny the Elder, under an exclusive contract partnership with Firestone Walker Brewing.
Highland Brewing is investing $5 million into a facility expansion that will enable the company, which is based in Asheville, N.C., to boost annual capacity by 60,000 barrels and create additional jobs. Backed by bank loans and some gradual tax incentives offered up by the Economic Development Coalition for Asheville-Buncombe County (EDC), the brewery plans to occupy an additional 30,000 sq. ft. of its current building with new tanks and a bottling line.
SANTA MONICA, Calif., — The Brewers Association (BA), the not-for-profit trade association that represents the majority of U.S. breweries, will be among the first to register .beer web addresses under the new Internet top-level domain .beer when it becomes available to the general public on September 25, 2014.
With Canadian barley crops marred by frigid temperatures and wet weather, brewers and maltsters alike to dig a little deeper in their pockets for key ingredients, something that could cause prices to surge in the coming year.
The world’s largest brewer today announced a set of global management changes, scheduled to take effect on Jan. 1, 2015. Anheuser-Busch InBev said it will transition current North America zone president, Luiz Edmond, into a global role as Chief Sales Officer. Taking over for Edmond will be current Latin America zone president, Jo├úo Castro Neves.
ESCONDIDO, CA — Stone Brewing Co. will celebrate the Great American Beer Festival (GABF) with a slew of beer-centric events in Denver from September 30 through October 4.
Boulder, CO — Falling just a week after the release of their new beer, Pump[KY]n, batch no. 4 of Avery Brewing Company’s Rumpkin is ready to be harvested.
