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Press Clips: Anchor Brewing Union Contract Finalized; D.C. Brau Receives Investment

Press Clips: Anchor Brewing Union Contract Finalized; D.C. Brau Receives Investment

Employees at Anchor Brewing ratified a three-year contract with the International Longshore and Warehouse Union (ILWU), Local 6 earlier this month, a first for the San Francisco-based brewery. D.C. Brau raised $614,335 from 12 investors during a recent equity raise, according to a December 19 U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission filing. Columbus, Indiana-based 450 North Brewing Company has posted an apology on its social media accounts for selling its Slushy line of beers with the incorrect alcohol by volume.

Drizly Partners with Shop Rite & Tobacco Plus to Bring Alcohol Delivery to 14 Louisiana Parishes

Drizly, the nation’s first and largest alcohol e-commerce marketplace, today announced a partnership with Shop Rite & Tobacco Plus, one of Louisiana’s leading liquor retailers. The partnership will bring convenient delivery of beer, wine and liquor in under 60 minutes to approximately 1.4 million consumers of legal drinking age, across 14 Louisiana parishes for the first time. Drizly brings adults of legal drinking age the widest selection of beer, wine and spirits, with full price transparency.

Brewbound Live 2019: Reuben’s Brews, Cape May and Monday Night Share Growth Strategies

Brewbound Live 2019: Reuben’s Brews, Cape May and Monday Night Share Growth Strategies

Co-founders of three breweries in Brewbound’s 2019 class of Rising Stars discussed their companies’ growth strategies and management techniques during a panel earlier this month at the Brewbound Live business conference in Santa Monica. The panel featured Adam Robbings, co-founder and brewmaster of Seattle-based Reuben’s Brews; Jeff Heck, co-founder and CEO of Atlanta’s Monday Night Brewing; and Ryan Krill, co-founder and CEO of Cape May Brewing in Cape May, New Jersey.

River North Brewery Launches 2020 Norther Society with Bottle Release

2019 is over and out and 2020 is here to stay! River North Brewery wants to help you beat those new year blues with a limited bottle release and new Norther Society enrollment. Starting at noon, Saturday, January 4th there will be the chance for anyone to join the elite Norther Society and pick up their first of six single cask releases. Only available at the North Washington Street taproom, the membership is limited and will fill up fast!

Revolution Brewing to Release Legal-Hero Hazy IPA

With the upcoming January 1 legalization of recreational marijuana across Illinois, Revolution Brewing is releasing Legal-Hero to mark the occasion and salute those who worked to make the change. The Revolution Brewing Taproom (3340 N. Kedzie Ave.in Avondale) will be open on New Year’s Day from  2-8 p.m. for a special release of the double dry-hopped Hazy IPA.

Brewbound Live 2019: Day Bracey Discusses Fresh Fest, the First Beer Festival to Celebrate Black-Owned Beer Companies

Brewbound Live 2019: Day Bracey Discusses Fresh Fest, the First Beer Festival to Celebrate Black-Owned Beer Companies

Fresh Fest co-founder Day Bracey shared how the first U.S. beer festival of black-owned craft breweries came together during a conversation earlier this month during the Brewbound Live business conference in Santa Monica. Fresh Fest offers black beer drinkers an experience that’s rare in an industry whose producers and consumers are mostly white men.

Creature Comforts Announces 2019 Get Artistic Beneficiaries

Creature Comforts Announces 2019 Get Artistic Beneficiaries

In concert with Creature Comforts Brewing Company’s commitment to both its community and to helping others pursue their passion, the brewery launched Get Artistic in June 2018 to invest in the local arts community. Through this initiative, Creature Comforts aims to contribute to the growth and wellbeing of Athens’ creative community. Closing the program’s second… Read more »

Brewbound Live 2019: Cascadia Capital’s Nicole Nugent Fry Reviews 2019 Beer Industry M&A and Looks Ahead to 2020

Brewbound Live 2019: Cascadia Capital’s Nicole Nugent Fry Reviews 2019 Beer Industry M&A and Looks Ahead to 2020

Mergers and acquisitions in the craft beer industry have evolved from a peak period of large corporate brewery buyouts to craft-on-craft deals and multi-brand craft roll ups, Cascadia Capital managing director Nicole Nugent Fry discussed during her presentation earlier this month at the Brewbound Live business conference in Santa Monica.

Yuengling Announces Multi-Year Official Partnership with the New Jersey Devils and Prudential Center

Yuengling Announces Multi-Year Official Partnership with the New Jersey Devils and Prudential Center

NEWARK, N.J. –D.G. Yuengling & Son, Inc., America’s Oldest Brewery®, is proud to announce it has become an Official Partner of the New Jersey Devils and Prudential Center. In honor of the new partnership, Yuengling and the Devils will unveil the Yuengling 1829 Grill, a 13,000-square-foot, Yuengling-branded restaurant located on Prudential Center’s INFINITI Suite Level 1,… Read more »