Craft beer industry members converged on San Diego last November for the Brewbound Session, a full-day business conference and networking event that was attended by over 130 craft brewers, distributors and other beer industry professionals.
After six years at the helm, Brian Walsh has stepped down as president and CEO of Long Trail Brewing Company. Walsh, who departed the company last week, will pursue new personal and professional opportunities, according to investor Daniel Fulham, who has taken over Walsh’s roles for the Bridgewater Corners, Vt.-based brewery.
Video presentations from the Brewbound Session Winter 2012 are now available on Beverageschool.com, BevNET.com Inc.’s on-demand, video-based learning site. BeverageSchool.com is specifically designed for newcomers and entrepreneurs in the beverage space.
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 »
