Craft beer industry news.
Hopworks Urban Brewery (HUB), the first B Corp brewery in the Pacific Northwest, has revealed its 2021 brand calendar of sustainable beer featuring a new year-round organic porter, a new line of Imperial IPAs inspired from its award-winning Ace of Spades, and the return of several fan favorites.
Sierra Nevada is calling a time-out on Sufferfest, the athletic-inspired, better-for-you craft beer brand it acquired nearly two years ago. “As we enter 2021, we are pausing production to explore what’s next for Sufferfest Beer Company,” the company wrote on its website.
Louisiana Craft Brewers Guild has appointed Eric Avery to the organization’s board of directors. Originally from Lake Charles, Eric Avery is the President of Crying Eagle Brewing Company.
If Thorn Beers were chocolate bars, what kind of chocolate bars would they be? No need to wonder because Thorn has teamed up with Carlsbad’s Chuao Chocolatier to bring you the Chocolate Covered Stout Series!
After the COVID-19 pandemic shuttered bars and restaurants nationwide, consumers’ beer purchasing shifted to off-premise retailers. However, it wasn’t just the usual grocery and club stores that saw sales increase — among others, e-commerce, on-demand convenience delivery platform goPuff and drug store chain Walgreens have sold more beer in 2020.
Men can still enjoy two drinks per day without running afoul of the government’s nutritional guidelines. After being presented with research from the Dietary Guidelines Advisory Committee (DGAC) in July that suggested the daily alcohol allowance for men be cut in half, the U.S. Departments of Agriculture and Health and Human Services opted not to change the recommendation put forth in its 2020-2025 Dietary Guidelines for Americans (DGA), which was released today.
Resolutions that begin with Dry January are often void of beer drinking occasions. Not in 2021. By tapping into the increasingly popular observance, Heineken® 0.0 is the drink of choice for those who still want a refreshing brew but want to avoid the alcohol. To help further support consumers during their Dry January campaign, the brand will introduce Heineken® 0.0 12-pack cans in select markets during the month, with a national launch slated for March 2021.
California brewery SLO Brew is making a $7,000 donation to the nonprofit Beer for Boobs to support breast cancer research and recovery organizations with their flagship Blood Orange Cali-Squeeze.
Cider Summit is accepting nationwide pre-orders for its latest “Festival To Go Tasting Kits.” This new version is being released in conjunction with CiderCon, the premier conference for cidermakers put on by the American Cider Association. Cider Summit’s CiderCon Tasting Kits can be ordered now at CiderSummit.com, with pick up, delivery, and shipping available the week of Feb. 1.
Iron Hill Brewery & Restaurant (Iron Hill) welcomed guests to its 18th location at Lenox Marketplace at 3535 Peachtree Road NE in the Buckhead neighborhood of Atlanta, GA. Despite delays due to COVID-19, Iron Hill Buckhead opened its doors with socially distanced indoor and outdoor dining of scratch-made New American food paired with award-winning craft beer brewed a few feet from the table, as well as takeout and delivery of the entire food menu.
SweetWater Brewing Company (“SweetWater”) is pouring one out for the year with their latest beer in their Dank Tank Series, EFF 2020, just in time to wash the taste of 2020 goodbye. The limited release Triple IPA is packed with Citra, Sultan, Vic Secret and Azacca hops for notes of peach, tropical citrus, pineapple and pine, and comes in at 55-60 IBUs and 9.2% ABV.
Since its debut in 2016, New Belgium Brewing’s Voodoo Ranger line has become a growth engine for the Fort Collins, Colorado-headquartered craft brewery. The IPA brand, fronted by a snarky, skeletal “spokescreature,” came at just the right time. Sales of New Belgium’s Ranger IPA were down 50% and the team decided the brand wasn’t salvageable.
“We needed something fresh; we needed something more relevant to the IPA category,” CEO Steve Fechheimer said during the Brewbound Live business conference earlier this month. “It was time to take a risk.”
Brough Brothers Distillery, the first and only Black-owned distillery in the state of Kentucky, opened its doors for business earlier this month in Louisville.
Just in time to ring in the new year, Portland Cider Co. has released Bubbly Brut, a brand-new modern champagne-style sparkling cider that’s perfect for celebrating a special occasion or a “cider-bration” any night of the week.
