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.
Like the rest of the nation’s federal workers, operations at the Alcohol and Tobacco Tax and Trade Bureau (TTB), have stalled. This means that no new breweries, products or labels can be approved by the TTB, preventing them from legally entering the marketplace, and the slowdown has the potential to sap the novelty-based trials that an ever-expanding suite of products and brands have engendered within the industry’s consumer base.
Brewbound is pleased to announce that Sam Calagione, the founder of Dogfish Head Craft Brewery,will give the keynote address at the Dec. 5 Brewbound Session in San Diego.
Craft’s love affair with consumer choice, style variations and packaging options might give some distributors a headache, but the strategy has helped to shape a beer category that continues to grow at a double-digit clip. The introduction of new SKUs doesn’t seem to be slowing anytime soon: three of the country’s largest craft beer suppliers are preparing to launch a set of new packages.
Continuing its quest to be a nationally distributed brand before the end of the year, Green Flash Brewing today announced new distribution in Michigan. Green Flash has signed wholesale agreements with three distributors: Alliance Beverage, Eastown Distributors and Powers Distributing. The brewery’s entire portfolio — including West Coast IPA, Hop Head Red, Double Stout and… Read more »
