Oskar Blues today announced the nationwide release of its latest innovation, a canned version of the company’s Old Chub Nitro. The Longmont, Colo.-based company originally debuted the beer, albeit with a slightly different recipe, at the 2014 Craft Brewers Conference, held this past April in Denver, Colo.
For Joel VandenBrink, founder of both Seattle Cider Co. and Two Beers Brewery, running two markedly different businesses means developing two markedly different business strategies. Having just invested close to half a million dollars in an expansion that enabled it to triple capacity, Seattle Cider is getting set to open a second facility that will again significantly lift its production ceiling.
The Alcohol and Tobacco Tax and Trade Bureau (TTB), as brewers well know, is responsible for approving all the beer labels that decorate retailers’ shelves across the country. The sexually charged double entendres, the gargoyles, they all need to be reviewed by the TTB before hitting the market. Or, more specifically, they need to be reviewed by Ken “Battle” Martin.
Sales of craft and craft-style beer will likely eclipse $20 billion in 2014, according to a new report from market research firm Mintel. Of the $20.4 billion in craft sales that Mintel has predicted for this year, the firm believes more than 84 percent ($17.2 billion) will come from Brewers Association-defined craft brewers
Five months after SweetWater Brewing began canning its beer, the Atlanta-based craft brewery is once again augmenting its packaging lineup. Beginning this week, Sweetwater will ship newly designed glass bottles, now embossed with the company’s logo and tagline, to its wholesalers.
It’s been nearly 18 months in the making, but Brew Hub is finally ready to open the doors to its Lakeland, Fla. brewery. The company has installed a 100-barrel brewhouse and is now taking its brewing and fermentation equipment for a test drive, Schoen told Brewbound.
A Florida company claiming to have acquired the majority interest in a World of Beer franchise in Key West has sued the chain’s parent company, alleging it reneged on its initial approval of the deal months after the fact. According to the suit, filed in Hillsborough County Circuit Court, Alfa Professional HR Services, Inc. bought 60 percent of Craft Culture Key West, LLC, the franchisee of World of Beer’s Key West outpost in January.
Brewbound San Diego ‘14 – a one-day conference focused on the business of craft beer – will be held on December 4th in San Diego at the Paradise Point Resort. You can save $100 by signing up now with the early registration discount.
Having made inroads in New England earlier this year with launches in Massachusetts and Rhode Island, D.G. Yuengling Brewery is taking another step toward filling out its footprint in the region by expanding distribution to Connecticut. According to The Courant, the Pottsville, Pa.-based brewery’s beers will be available at bars and restaurants in the Constitution State on September 22 with packaged offerings to follow shortly thereafter on October 6.
Concerns over public safety could block the tap lines Chainline Brewing is trying to open up in Kirkland, Wash. Worried citizens fear the new brewery slated to open in a shared commerce complex would pose a threat to public safety and lead to the overcrowding of an already busy parking lot.
It was a “very good” second quarter, according to Craft Brew Alliance, the makers of Widmer Brothers, Redhook, Kona, Omission and Square Mile Cider. During an earnings call on Thursday, CEO Andy Thomas described the quarter as one that would “go down as a record for CBA.”
There’s still more than a month left in summer but already, pumpkin beer patches are growing on store shelves. The rollout started early this year: New York’s Southern Tier Brewing bottled its popular Pumking offering on May 28 and the first cases of it appeared at a Pennsylvania retail store on June 30.
Last week, Notch Brewing founder Chris Lohring thought that he’d finally found a location where he could build his company’s first production facility. Lohring, who launched Notch as a contract craft brand in 2010, had already visited a dozen properties in Salem, Mass., a coastal town located about 40 minutes north of Boston.
Richmond, Va. is reported to be one of the final contending cities vying for Stone Brewing Co.’s first facility east of the Mississippi River, and the City Council is putting in time off the clock to make sure it doesn’t get skipped over. Though it typically takes August off, the council called a “special meeting” yesterday with regards to permits for publicly owned land proximate to the James River, according to the Richmond Times Dispatch.
