You can still find bronzing grandparents, golf courses and nightclubs in Florida, but after speaking with hordes of craft brewers at the Great American Beer Festival in Denver earlier this month, it seems that the Sunshine State also offers a growing range of craft beers.
Earlier this week, Nectar Ales announced that it will revert to its original brewery name, Humboldt Brewing Company. The name change nods to the brewery’s start in 1987 in Humboldt County, Calif., before it was acquired by Firestone Walker Brewing Company in June 2005 and then again acquired by Total Beverage Solution in July 2012.
Bell’s Brewery yesterday announced that its lineup of core and seasonal beers are now available in Upstate New York. In August, the Michigan-based craft brewery confirmed plans to begin distributing in the Empire state with three L. Knife & Son companies: T.J. Sheehan Distributing, Tri-Valley Beverage and Craft Guild of New York.
Duvel Moortgat, the Belgian owners of Brewery Ommegang in Cooperstown, N.Y. will purchase Boulevard Brewing Company of Kansas City, Mo. in a deal that will combine one of the country’s largest craft breweries with the domestic and import branches of a high-end international brewing conglomerate in a separate holding company focused on U.S. sales. The… Read more »
Alchemy & Science is taking its talents to South Beach. The craft brew incubation project and wholly-owned subsidiary of Boston Beer Company yesterday announced the launch of Concrete Beach Brewery, scheduled to open in the Wynwood Arts District of Miami before the end of the year.
D.G. Yuengling Brewery is considering new distribution in Massachusetts, according to company officials. It would mark just the 16th state for Yuengling, which is nevertheless the country’s oldest brewery and one that sells nearly 3 million barrels annually.
Alchemy & Science, the craft brew incubation project and wholly-owned subsidiary of Boston Beer Company, today announced its latest project, Concrete Beach Brewery. Scheduled to open in the Wynwood Arts District of Miami in early 2014, Concrete Beach Brewery will produce various styles of draft beer for local distribution.
It didn’t take long for Bell’s Brewery founder Larry Bell to break ground on his new side project, Upper Hand Brewery. Bell’s, currently the country’s 7th biggest craft beer company, today announced that it broke ground on a new $1.3 million “state of the art craft brewery and bottling facility” located at the Delta County… Read more »
New Belgium Brewing is once again expanding its distribution footprint, this time to Ohio. The country’s third largest craft brewery today announced that it has signed agreements with a mix of nine different Anheuser-Busch and MillerCoors wholesalers.
Over the years, the Boston Beer Company founder has dabbled in the space, sure. The company released its first “Boston IPA,” an English style made with the Fuggle and East Kent Golding hop varietals, in the 1990s. It’s played with hops over the years, rolling out offerings like Latitude 48, Whitewater IPA, Third Voyage Double IPA, even a mixed-IPA variety pack.
Demand continues to balloon at the Great American Beer Festival (GABF) in Denver, but that doesn’t necessarily mean that the Brewers Association (B.A.), which runs the event, will add more breweries or beer drinkers. “Demand for the festival, demand for the competition was huge this year,” said Paul Gatza, the B.A.’s director.
Nitro beers and milk stouts are niche categories, but that’s just fine if you ask Chris Lennert, the vice president of operations at Left Hand Brewing Company. “We’re still niche as an industry,” Lennert said.
Craft brewers are once again questioning the safety of plastic kegs after new reports of a keg explosion surfaced this week on an industry forum. On Tuesday, the Brewers Association (BA) — which moderates the forum — posted an anonymous note from a craft brewery which claimed to have recently experienced what was described as… Read more »
Oskar Blues, the Longmont, Colo.-based craft brewery — which got its start as a brewpub and currently operates a number of restaurant operations throughout the Centennial State — today announced it will expand its “craft casual” CHUBurger concept to nearby Coors Field, the home of Major League Baseball’s Colorado Rockies.
