Avery Brewing has announced its return to the Sooner State, the first market that the brewery has re-entered since it scaled back distribution two years ago. The return was made possible in part due to expanded production at Avery’s current brewing facility. In April 2011, Avery Brewery stopped distributing to eight states, including Oklahoma, and… Read more »
Uinta Brewing has agreed to change the name of Hop Notch, the brewery’s flagship beer and one of the fastest-growing IPAs in the country, following a request from Massachusetts-based Notch Brewing, which owns trademark for the word “Notch” as it relates to beer and breweries. Notch Brewing claimed that Hop Notch was creating marketplace confusion.
SweetWater Brewery has inked a deal with River City Distributing for expansion into Louisville, Ky. Louisville is the third Kentucky market that SweetWater has entered this year, following new distribution in Lexington and Northern Kentucky. Prior to its arrival in Kentucky, the Georgia-based brewery had not expanded into a new state since 2008.
Fred Forsley, the founder of the country’s 15th largest craft brewery, is so excited about the growth of the craft category that he struggled to find another adjective to describe it. “Our industry is going through a variety of exciting times,” he told Brewbound. “The last few years have been fun and I get excited… Read more »
Brewbound is delighted to announce that Josh Landan and Mikey Taylor, the co-founders of recently launched Saint Archer Brewing Company, will join the Dec. 5 Brewbound Session in San Diego. Landan will discuss Saint Archer’s conscious and unapologetic approach to branding during the event.
As state representatives in Utah work to raise taxes on beer, there’s another legislative issue brewing in Georgia over whether brewpub customers should be able to leave the premises with a bottle of their favorite libation.
In our latest video , Epic co-founder David Cole discusses that the idea of operating numerous production facilities throughout the country. Cole hopes the approach of growing through multiple, regionally located, mid-sized breweries will prove itself in Denver and allow the company to consider additional expansion opportunities in the future.
CBA announced Tuesday the hiring of Ken Kunze, who has been named the company’s new chief marketing officer, according to a release. Kunze, who has more than 25 years of leadership experience in the consumer packaged goods, beer and beverage industries, will start Monday and will report to Andy Thomas, CBA’s president of commercial operations.
With Oskar Blues Brewery’s second brewing facility in Brevard, N.C. running full steam ahead, the company said it plans to expand into a “handful of new states” next year. Oskar Blues will jumpstart the process by entering Indiana in November with three wholesalers: World Class Beer-Monarch Beverage in central and south Indiana, and Indiana Beverage… Read more »
Chicago beer drinkers should get ready for a taste of ‘Vacationland.’ Popular boutique brewer Maine Beer Co. recently signed a new wholesale agreement with Windy City Distribution — part of the Reyes Beverage Group of beer distributors — and made its first shipment of beer to the Midwest just last week.
Carl Nolen, the co-founder and CEO of soon-to-launch Wisconsin Brewing is blunt when discussing his company’s finances. “If you are undercapitalized out of the gate, you are probably going to be screwed,” he said.
The craft beer category continued to capture on-premise market share in the third quarter despite what GuestMetrics calls the “weakest” of the year for all alcohol categories. According to the on-premise data supplier, on-premise beer volumes are down 5.2 percent in the last four weeks and 3.7 year-to-date.
All eyes were focused on D.G. Yuengling last week as news broke that the brewery was eyeing new distribution in the New England market. Yuengling distributes nearly 3 million barrels of beer across a 15-state footprint, but that could change next year with a return to Massachusetts, a state where it hasn’t sold beer since… Read more »
If ever there was a race to open a second brewery on the East Coast, Oskar Blues won by a long shot. The Longmont, Colo.-based craft brewery officially opened its second brewing facility in Brevard, N.C. last December, ahead of Sierra Nevada and New Belgium, which are also planning expansions in the Tar Heel State of their own.
