Jim and Jason Ebel are nearly two decades into a career in the beer industry and about 15 months removed from selling Windy City Distribution to Reyes Beverage Group for a reported $50 million. Now, the two brothers — who also own a craft brewery in Chicago by the same name (Two Brothers Brewing) —… Read more »
With the arrival of a new managing partner and a significant cash infusion, Worcester, Mass.-based Wormtown Brewing is expanding. The four-year-old company is investing more than $1 million in a new production facility and has hired former Cambridge Brewing Company brewer Megan Parisi, who most recently served as the head brewer at Bluejacket Brewing in Washington D.C.
After being flooded with more than 2,000 comments regarding its proposal to tighten regulation of the transaction of spent grain between brewers and farmers, the Food and Drug Administration (FDA) yesterday said it plans revise its original plan. The agency said it will release an amended version of the proposal this summer.
A brewery selling 5,000 barrels of beer in its first year of production isn’t entirely unheard of, but it used to be inconceivable. Even craft beer Paterfamilias Jim Koch himself forecast it would take five years to reach the milestone, but Boston Beer Co. reached the figure within five months of its first delivery.
It took nearly three years, but Boston-area craft beer producer Somerville Brewing Company, has finally found its home. The company, which first introduced its “Slumbrew” line of beers in October 2011, today announced it has signed a lease on a 3,600 sq. ft. space in Somerville and plans to open a new production facility and… Read more »
Andrews Distributing Company today announced it has finalized the purchase of the former Coors Distributing Company in Fort Worth, Tex, gaining eight new brewing partners and over 3,000 retail accounts in the region. The acquisition, according to a press release, is expected to increase Andrews’ beer and Red Bull sales from 28 million to 33… Read more »
Get ready for round two. Startup Brewery Challenge 2, Brewbound’s business pitch competition for new craft brewery owners, is returning to the Brewbound Session in Boston on May 29. The Startup Brewery Challenge is a unique opportunity for new brewers to partner with one of the country’s largest craft beer companies, Craft Brew Alliance (CBA).
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.
