Yuengling’s quick rollout should come as no surprise. In January, Yuengling COO Dave Casinelli told Brewbound that he’d be “very disappointed” if the company failed to capture five percent of the Massachusetts beer market in the first 12 months of the brand’s return. “Not since Coors or Corona has a brand come along that will have as much impact as Yuengling will in Massachusetts,” he said at the time.
Zygotes. Elephants. Balloons. Wait. What were we talking about? Ah, yes. Lagunitas. Tony Magee, founder and CEO of the 21-year-old brewery out of Petaluma, Calif. is known to get philosophical when he talks about the state of craft beer and how it’s matured.
Founders Brewing refuses to take its foot off the gas pedal. After announcing expansions into Tennessee, Arkansas, Oklahoma and Louisiana earlier this year, the Michigan-based company today said it will launch with Hensley Beverage Company in Arizona next month.
The famous cocktail may be named after New York’s most densely populated borough, but Tallgrass Brewing Co. is doing its due diligence to put a different Manhattan on the map. The Manhattan, Kan.-based brewery has announced a $5 million expansion project that will triple its current size and bring production capacity to 100,000 barrels annually…. Read more »
The Brewers Association (BA) today released its annual rankings of the top 50 U.S. craft breweries based on 2013 sales volume — and a few notable companies are climbing rapidly up the list. San Diego’s Ballast Point Brewing was 2013’s biggest mover, jumping 17 spots to 29th on the list. “I knew we’d move up… Read more »
Craft brewers have long been known to approach the business side of beer in a much more congenial way than their large domestic counterparts. For proof, look no further than Colorado, where Fort Collins-based New Belgium has offered to lease space to its neighbors, Avery Brewing, while it expands.
It’s hard to call it a homecoming when you never really left, but that’s exactly how 21st Amendment’s Dave Wilson views his recent appointment as partner and president with the San Francisco-based craft beer company. Over the last three years, Wilson has literally worn two hats. At industry events, he’d sometimes wear both a 21st Amendment embroidered hat and a Crux Fermentation shirt.
For years, smaller craft brewers have donated — or sold on the cheap — their spent grain to farmers to feed cows and other livestock. Rather than sending it to landfills, the handshake transaction between brewers and farmers has been lauded as mutually beneficial by many industry watchers and advocates.
It’s been four years since Phusion Projects was forced to remove energy stimulants like caffeine, guarana and taurine from its products, but the dust is still settling. On Tuesday, the maker of Four Loko agreed to pay $400,000 in a multistate settlement over allegations that it unlawfully marketed its flavored malt beverages, promoted the misuse of alcohol by minors and failed to disclose the effects of drinking alcoholic beverages with caffeine.
Looking to become a “significant regional player,” Virginia-based Devils Backbone Brewing Co. is setting its sights on the 100,000-barrel club. In the next 18 months, the company — which only began bottling and kegging its products for regional distribution in 2012 — will install a 120-barrel brewhouse by next sumer in an effort to accommodate… Read more »
Another week, another craft brewed trademark dispute. It was reported last week that Left Hand Brewing had filed a trademark application on the term “Nitro” — shorthand for the process of carbonating beer with nitrogen — in order to protect the Nitro series brand name that the brewery has built over the years.
This isn’t the Newport, Ore.-based brewery’s first foray into the state — its beers are available nationwide — but effective this Friday, MoBev and its newly formed craft team will exclusively distribute the brand throughout. As such, consumers in the state already have a sense of brand familiarity with Rogue, said MoBev general manager Derek Holmes.
One prominent Sunshine State craft brewer is considering a major expansion, but he’s worried that an ongoing legislative wrangling over the state’s growler-fill laws might actually force him to move the project out of the state. Joey Redner, the founder of Cigar City Brewing in Tampa, Fla., told Brewbound that the company is unable to… Read more »
Florida craft brewers came closer to finding a bill that would suit them when it comes to providing growler fills to consumers yesterday after lawmakers made sweeping changes to a previously-submitted version.That bill, a revised version of House Bill 1329, remains unlikely to make it out of committee this year, however.
