There isn’t any one way to move product in the craft beer market as it becomes increasingly saturated. At today’s Brewbound Session business conference in Boston, however, a number of industry experts divulged what has enabled them to grow sales of their brands as the popularity of craft has blown up around them.

South Carolina lawmakers in both the House and Senate adopted what has become known as the Stone Bill this afternoon, effectively loosening restrictions on how brewers in the Palmetto State do business. The bill — known in the Senate as S. 1230 and in the House as H. 3512 — is now off to be… Read more »

We’re less than 24 hours away from the Brewbound Session, being held tomorrow at the Revere Hotel in downtown Boston, and it’s time to introduce our five esteemed judges for the second edition of Brewbound’s Startup Brewery Challenge, which is sponsored by Craft Brew Alliance. 

Giving the white coats of craft beer their due, The New York Times published a story on Monday profiling the efforts of two teams of microbiologists as they seek to create “the first genetic family tree for brewing yeasts and the beers they make.”

This afternoon, a conference committee made up of six South Carolina lawmakers voted unanimously in favor of the bill — known in the Senate as S. 1230 and in the House as H. 3512 — which was inspired by Stone Brewing Co., the Escondido, Calif.-based brewery looking to invest upwards of $30 million to build a new facility on the East Coast, creating up to 400 jobs in the process.

Brewbound is pleased to announce that Harpoon Brewery will once again host the official Brewbound Session welcome reception on Wednesday May 28, the evening before Brewbound puts on its bi-annual business conference at the Revere Hotel in downtown Boston.

Drawing on 15 years of experience in web-based marketing as well as digital brand and social media strategy, including executive roles with The Boston Beer Company and Hill Holliday, Andrew Teman, the co-founder of Heart, a Boston-based creative agency, will offer a simple marketing framework designed to help brewers of scaling size prioritize their communications channels, build their brands and maximize their growth potential.

Massachusetts-based Jack’s Abby brewery will expand sales to Connecticut and has signed agreements with G&G Beverage Distributors, Inc. for coverage in the Fairfield and New Haven counties, as well as L. Knife & Son’s Craft Beer Guild Distributing of Connecticut for distribution throughout the Hartford, Litchfield, Middlesex, Tolland, Windham and New London counties.

Back in February, Reyes Holdings acquired the distribution rights to Coca-Cola in Chicago. As Brewbound reported at the time, the acquisition marked Reyes’ “first major foray into beverage distribution outside of the beer category.” It made sense: who would turn down the rights to distribute one of the world’s most recognizable brands?

As the weather begins to heat up this summer, so will beer sales, said the Beer Institute, a trade association representing both large and small brewers. According to the organization, which cites data from Nielsen, a consumer trends agency, more than 38 million American households will spend upwards of a collective $11 billion on beer… Read more »

Featuring a line-up of successful craft beverage entrepreneurs, veteran wholesalers and expert retailers, the Brewbound Session will address the topics that most directly impact the decisions craft brewers are faced with as they look to grow their brands. 

Tamarron Consulting, known for its annual Malt Beverage Supplier Performance Survey, which polls hundreds of U.S. beer distributors and asks them to rate performance and share perceptions of the leading domestic and import brands, recently made its first foray into craft beer with its inaugural Craft Brewer Performance Survey.

Not to make light of the king of Israel’s plight, but if the relationship between today’s craft brewers and big beer is at all, as many suggest, comparable to the biblical bout between David and Goliath, one must also add a second Goliath to the analogy. It’s David and Goliath and Government. Take, for instance,… Read more »

This afternoon, six legislators from the state of South Carolina will hold a conference committee to parse the language of and determine the fate of what has become colloquially known as the ‘Stone Bill.’ The bill — more formerly known in the Senate as S. 1230; H. 3512 in the House — would change the… Read more »