Victory has announced plans to install a canning line in its recently opened Parkesburg, Pa. facility beginning in 2015. Victory’s seasonal Summer Love offering will be the first in its portfolio to be canned, the company said. No further decisions have been made about what other varieties will go into the package, according to a company spokesperson.
Michael Kiser, a brand strategist who’s worked for companies as large as Anheuser-Busch InBev and as small as yet-to-launch craft startups, believes there’s a distinct difference between the craft of brewing a quality product and the task of running a brewery business. “You are not a brewer until you know how to sell a beer,” he said during Tuesday’s Brew Talks industry meetup.
A number of craft brewers, including stalwarts Sierra Nevada and New Belgium, are rallying behind new regulation put forth by the Environmental Protection Agency they say will ensure the availability of clean water for their beers.
Brewbound.com is pleased to announce live video streaming of Brew Talks Chicago, a traveling meetup series for craft beer industry professionals. The event, which will be hosted, at the Lagunitas Brewery taproom on Tuesday, will feature two discussions on the business of craft beer.
Ninkasi Brewing will expand distribution to Arizona per an agreement with Golden Eagle Distributors, the wholesaler has announced. In late October, the brewery out of Eugene, Ore. will launch in the Phoenix and Tucson markets before subsequently broadening its reach statewide. Arizona marks the eighth state in the brewery’s U.S. distribution footprint. It also has a presence in Vancouver, British Columbia.
Beginning in October, Stone Brewing Co., the country’s tenth largest craft brewery will begin distributing its beers to bars, restaurants, and other retail outlets throughout the Canadian provinces of Alberta and British Columbia.Stone has tapped Horizon Beers for market coverage in Canada, and the brewery has a slew of launch events and tap takeovers scheduled for late in the month.
The U.S. Food and Drug Administration (FDA) has revised its proposed regulations on the transaction of spent grains between brewers and farmers. On Friday, the federal agency finally released its summary of key revisions, writing that human food processors (such as brewers) already in compliance with the FDA’s human food safety requirements “would not need to implement additional preventative controlsÔǪ when supplying a by-product,” such as spent grains.
Long-term success for emerging craft brewers requires an enormous attention to detail, strong brand positioning, clearly defined identities and well-executed product marketing initiatives. That’s why Brewbound is excited to have a pair of Chicago-area entrepreneurs joining Tuesday’s Brew Talks event, which will take place at the Lagunitas Brewery taproom at 5:00 P.M. CST.
Ballast Point Brewing will finally expand its distribution to Colorado, per an agreement with Elite Brands, the wholesaler announced today.The first shipment of beers from the San Diego brewery is expected to arrive in the state before the end of the month. The company had intended to return to Colorado last year, which it had previously left in 2009, but was forced to delay its entry until its secondary brewing facility was built.
Southern Tier Brewing, a fast-growing top-50 craft brewery based in upstate New York, today announced it has sold a percentage of its business to Ulysses Management LLC, an investment firm with offices in New York City. Specific terms of the deal were not disclosed, but Southern Tier co-founder Phineas DeMink told Brewbound that he would retain a financial interest in the company and remain in a leadership role.
Through the first nine months of this year, IRI numbers are once again telling a familiar story: Craft and cider continue to carry the beer segment’s growth across multi-outlet and convenience channels (MULC) with dollar sales swelling 21.3 percent and 82.1 percent, respectively.
Hold on to your trucker hats, America’s most hipster beer company is reportedly being sold to the Russians. Both the Wall Street Journal and the New York Times are reporting that Pabst Brewing Company — the Los Angeles-based producer of heritage beer brands like Pabst Blue Ribbon, Lone Star and Olympia — will be sold for upwards of $750 million.
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There’s a pair of wholesaler deals in the works involving the distribution rights to a number of major brands, Brewbound has learned. In California, Nor-Cal Beverage Company will sell its beer division to Markstein Beverage. In Virginia, Reyes Beverage Group has agreed to acquire all of the assets of Kozak Beverages Inc.
