Bob Sullivan, the vice president of sales and marketing for Boulevard Brewing Company, announced today that he is leaving the company and joining Dallas-based Andrews Distributing as the vice president of specialty and craft beer brand building. Sullivan joined Boulevard in 1994. Under his leadership the company grew to become the tenth largest craft brewery… Read more »
DOPS, Inc., a wine, beer and spirits wholesaler based in Fort Washington, Md., announced today that it is selling the distribution rights to seven craft beer brands, including Allagash, Smuttynose, Rogue, Abita, Victory and Troegs.
In an effort to focus greater attention on brewing and improve service in its tasting room, Southern California-based The Bruery is closing its retail bottle shop The Bruery Provisions, the company announced today. Provisions – which sells a variety of beer and wine to go, small plates and 30 beers on draught and cask –… Read more »
Utah-based Epic Brewing Company officially announced today that it has signed a lease for a new, secondary brewing facility in Denver, Colo. News of the expansion first broke when Kevin Crompton, the company’s brewmaster, announced the plans during a media luncheon at the 2012 Great American Beer Festival, held in Denver last October.
The Redhook Brewery is once again changing the name of its spring seasonal. Last year, Redhook changed the name of the beer to “Nut Brown,” calling it an effort to “keep it simple.” However, in an attempt to give the brand a more sustainable identity, Redhook will return to the original moniker for the beer,… Read more »
Brooklyn Brewery, in collaboration with D. Carnegie & Co. and Carlsberg Sweden, today announced a new brewery and restaurant project that will be located in central Stockholm. The Brooklyn-New Carnegie Brewery will be built in the landmark Luma Factory in Hammarby Sj├Âstad, a residential and commercial complex that fronts on Stockholm harbor. The project is… Read more »
For the country’s second biggest producer of craft beer, the old adage of “less is more” has helped shepherd sales of its most coveted offerings. Sierra Nevada Brewing Company, recognizing that the craft beer marketplace was becoming increasingly crowded with an onslaught of new brands, created a solution to help guarantee shelf space and alleviate… Read more »
The distribution rights to two popular craft brands are changing hands in Chicago. Louis Glunz Beer, Inc., a beer wholesaler in Chicago, sold the distribution rights for the country’s 12th-largest craft brewer, Dogfish Head, and New Holland Brewing, a regional craft brewery based in Holland, Mich., to the Chicagoland MillerCoors Distributor Cluster for an undisclosed… Read more »
Fresh out of college, towing Charlie Papazian’s “The Complete Joy of Home Brewing,” also known as “the home brewer’s bible,” Sten Sellier bought his first brew kit. For 10 years, he inched toward his dream.
The $305 million acquisition of Vermont Hard Cider Company LLC — maker of Woodchuck Hard Cider — by the Irish cider company C&C Group is now complete. First announced in late October, the deal represents roughly four times Vermont Hard Cider’s expected $70 million in revenue for 2012.
At a time when double and triple digit growth rates dominate the craft beer headlines, at least one Colorado brewer prefers to take a more modest approach. In the mid-1990’s, Boulder Beer Company, Colorado’s oldest craft brewery, made a few critical decisions to ensure that it could survive for the long term if the industry… Read more »
Despite participating in the largest annual tradeshow for an industry that typically measures innovation in units per minute and is always pursuing economies of scale, a number of the exhibitors at this year’s PACK EXPO offered slower, smaller versions of their products in order to grab the attention of craft brewers.
With nearly 2,000 visitors passing through Boston’s Harpoon Brewery on a weekly basis, the company decided its tasting room, built in 1987, could no longer accommodate the high volume of guests and needed a facelift.
Last Thursday marked the first official brew day for Oskar Blues Brewery at its new facility in Brevard, N.C. The company brewed the first batch of its flagship offering, Dale’s Pale Ale, at the new, $12 million, 30,000 square-foot brewery just seven months after announcing it would be adding the second location.
