The Brewers Association (BA) has streamlined the registration process for this year’s Great American Beer Festival (GABF) in hopes of avoiding a repeat of a debacle that made securing a spot at the event difficult in 2013. Last year, brewers flooded the BA’s servers in an attempt to register, which resulted in the festival selling… Read more »
SweetWater Brewing Co. today announced it has expanded distribution to Memphis, Tenn., rounding out its statewide footprint in the Volunteer State. SweetWater’s beers have been available in eastern parts of the state since 2005, but a new partnership with Budweiser of Memphis will now bring the company to the largest city in the state.
Last month, the brewing community lost one its most eccentric entrepreneurs and a pioneer in craft brewing: Jack Joyce, the founder of Oregon-based Rogue Ales. Joyce, who had been living in Hawaii at the time, died suddenly of a heart attack on May 27 at the age of 71.
Earlier this year, Lazy Magnolia announced it would more than double its distribution footprint in 2014, by adding nine new markets on top of the existing eight where its beers are sold. Now Lazy Magnolia, which bills itself as Mississippi’s oldest packaging brewery, will scratch Chicago, Ill. off its to-do list by blowing into the… Read more »
A well-read food blogger has convinced the world’s largest brewers to publish, for the first time, a list of ingredients used to make its most popular beers. The North Carolina-based food activist, Vani Hari, who goes by the title “The Food Babe,” yesterday launched an online campaign urging Anheuser-Busch InBev and MillerCoors to disclose a… Read more »
Since its founding last April, San Diego’s Saint Archer Brewing has made a habit of executing sales and marketing endeavors that prominently display the company’s action sports image. Founded by members of the skate and surf communities, Saint Archer today announced its most recent partnership with with the Live Nation-owned Sleep Train Amphitheatre, an outdoor… Read more »
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 »
