With wholesalers eager to add new craft brands to their portfolios, it’s not surprising to see so many breweries making distribution announcements. Find out which brands are on the move after the jump.
With consumer demand for full-flavored beers increasing, even larger brewing entities are beginning to expand their specialty brewing operations. Tenth and Blake — MillerCoors’ craft arm — today announced that it has acquired the 110,000 sq. ft. facility adjacent to its existing 10th Street Brewery in Milwaukee.
OnTap, which quietly launched two, do-it-yourself craft-like liquid beer enhancers last week, is betting that domestic beer drinkers on a budget — i.e. the 21-to-34-year-old set — want more flavor than their familiar light lagers currently provide. Two flavors — Ale and Pale Ale — are currently available at a sprinkling of liquor stores in Colorado, and on the company’s website.
Calorie-conscious beer consumers might soon know the nutritional content of their next double IPA, but only if brewers want them to. The Alcohol and Tobacco Tax and Trade Bureau (TTB) issued interim guidance last week that allows beer, wine and spirits companies the ability to voluntarily include nutritional information on their labels, something that, until… Read more »
The final chapter in a month-long trademark saga between Magic Hat Brewing and West Sixth Brewing Company — one that that played out across Twitter and Facebook in May — has been written.
In preparation for the addition of 60,000 new barrels of capacity, Smuttynose Brewing Company will expand distribution into Indiana, the 22nd state where the company’s beers will be sold. The Portsmouth, N.H.-based craft brewery has signed a wholesale agreement with Cavalier Distributing-Indiana and will begin selling in the Hoosier state at the end of June.
It’s a familiar story. An onslaught of new craft beer brands launched in the last three years has heightened an already competitive retail environment. The fight for highly coveted draft beer lines is fierce and earning shelf space at craft-savvy retailers is more challenging than ever.
The country’s third largest craft brewery, New Belgium Brewing, today announced the signing of seven wholesale agreements in Florida, the 32nd state where its beer is distributed.
There’s an old Irish proverb that goes something like “when the apple is ripe, it will fall.” If recent statistics are any indication, the time is ripe for U.S cider makers, and a hail of apples is on the way. Sales of U.S. hard cider tripled over the five-year period from 2007-2012, reaching about $600… Read more »
In an effort to continue providing craft brewers access to valuable insight into the branding, marketing and distribution of craft beer, Brewbound.com will take its educational meetup series — Brew Talks — on the road for a weeklong West Coast tour that will make stops in San Diego, Los Angeles, Portland and Seattle.
The recent Modelo deal shifted the landscape for Constellation and its subsidiary and venture partner, Crown, enabling the companies to explore and possibly invest in the still-growing craft beer industry.
Virginia is for (Boulevard Brewing) beer lovers. The Kansas City-based craft brewery — the twelfth largest in the U.S. — today announced plans to expand its distribution footprint throughout the Old Dominion State. Select offerings from Boulevard Brewing are already available in parts of Northern Virginia.
Jennifer Gratz, co-founder of the recently opened Fort Myers Brewery, knows about taking on a challenge. After all, in addition to her life as a brewer, she’s known for going up against the status quo..
Capacity utilization can be quite the balancing act. Just ask Nick Matt, the third generation chairman and CEO of F.X. Matt Brewing Company, the country’s eighth biggest craft brewery and a large producer of contract brewed craft beers.
