Start with a topic as polarizing as franchise law reform, add a couple hundred brewers, distributors and beer executives, and, inevitably, you’ll end up with plenty of engaging (and sometimes emotional) conversation. That was the case this week in Chicago at the Beer Marketer’s Insights Spring Conference, an event focused on the market for high-end… Read more »
New Holland Brewing Co. is expanding its distribution to three New England states, per an agreement with L. Knife & Son, the company announced today. Beginning next week, the Holland, Mich.-based brewery’s beers will be available, both on draft and in bottles, throughout Massachusetts, Connecticut and Rhode Island.
Anheuser-Busch InBev and SABMiller walk into a bar. After ordering a round of light beers, a whole boatload of money is exchanged and the two beer giants leave the bar as one major brewing entity. That’s not much of a joke, but it is a potential reality — at least if you believe the merger… Read more »
Forty-nine states down, one to go. This July, Green Flash Brewing Co. will expand distribution to Hawaii, per an exclusive agreement with Paradise Beverages Inc. (Par Bev), leaving only one state, Utah, standing in its way of becoming a fully fledged national brand.
Beginning later this year, North Carolina’s Green Man Brewing Co. will “partner brew” out of contract brewing outfit Brew Hub’s pilot facility in Lakeland, Fla. The Lakeland brewery — the first of five contract facilities Brew Hub plans to open throughout the country — is slated to be fully operational by sometime this August.
The U.S. Tax and Trade Bureau (TTB) has ruled that more than 30 ingredients as well as certain brewing processes — such as aging beer in barrels — are no longer subject to formula requirements. Previously, brewers using the now exempt ingredients and practices had to provide a formula submission to the TTB en route… Read more »
Remarkable Liquids, an Albany, N.Y.-based craft wholesaler, is set to introduce a new importing arm, one that Matt Hartman, a partner with the company, calls “just an extension” of what it’s been doing since launching in July, 2012. Remarkable Liquids Importing will debut with offerings from Beau’s All Natural, a brewery out of Vankleek Hill,… Read more »
In the beer industry, there are plenty examples of brand confusion. Then there’s the peculiar case of Pizza Port Brewing Company and Port Brewing Company, two San Diego-area breweries with very close ties to one another. For better or worse, the two companies (which also share two majority partners) have long been confused in the… Read more »
Dogfish Head Craft Brewery may subscribe to an “off-centered” ethos, but the Milton, Del.-based company has a classic sense of fashion. Through a collaboration with Woolrich, an outdoor clothing company that pre-dates the Civil War, the brewery is set to release Pennsylvania Tuxedo, a small-batch pale ale brewed with spruce tips, named after the matching… Read more »
We’re please to announce that every speaker presentation and panel discussion from last week’s Brewbound Session is now available for viewing on BevNET FBU, BevNET.com Inc.’s on-demand, video learning site for food and beverage entrepreneurs.
At the crux of the charges, A-B InBev is alleged to have been using Anton Paar meters to measure the alcohol content in its beers before adding water and carbon dioxide to lower the alcohol content. Subsequently, according to the suit, the company marketed its beers as having higher alcohol content than they actually did.
Sean Spiegelman, the founder of Appalachian Mountain Brewery, beat out eight other participants with his diversified approach to business, one that relies on cause-based marketing and includes beer and cider production as well as a food truck service.
In 2010, Four Loko found itself somewhere between Legos and Windex on the definitive list of things that no human being should ever consume as compiled by screaming heads on television, concerned politicians and horrified parents alike. It was just too much booze, with too much caffeine, in too big a can, and it was bound to kill us all.
Craft beer in the Lone Star state is blooming like a Texas Rose. According to a new report from the Texas Craft Brewers Guild (TCBG), the state’s craft beer production grew more than 17 percent in 2013, which accounted for 5.34 percent of all the beer produced by Brewers Association-defined craft brewers.
