With new distribution in Northern California, a recent brewery expansion, and plans to dramatically increase production in 2013, Hangar 24 Brewery is flying fast and thinking big. The Redlands, Calif.-based brewery debuted in the San Francisco market in January, marking the largest expansion in its distribution since launching in 2008.
The country’s third largest craft brewery, New Belgium Brewing, is expanding its distribution footprint. Company spokesman Bryan Simpson told Brewbound.com that beginning in July, New Belgium will distribute its beer in Florida. “Florida is a great craft beer market,” Simpson said. “It was the right market for the amount of volume and capacity the brewery… Read more »
Small brewers would receive a significant reduction in federal excise taxes under a bipartisan bill introduced today in the U.S. House of Representatives. It’s the third time that Reps. Jim Gerlach (R-Pa) and Richard E. Neal (D-Mass) have introduced the legislation, House Bill 494, the Small Brewer Reinvestment and Expanding Workforce (Small BREW Act). The Brewers Association applauded the introduction of the bill.
The Goose has landed. Nationwide. Goose Island, the Anheuser-Busch InBev-owned, Chicago-based brewer that last August announced its intent to extend distribution nationally in 2013, has made its core offerings available on draught across the country. The company said draught availability of its 312, IPA, Honker’s and Mild Winter beers are part of a phased rollout that will include the nationwide release of bottle products later this spring.
Peak Organic beers are headed west. Sales of the Portland, Maine-based company’s beers began on Tuesday in San Francisco through wholesaler Matagrano Inc. The move out west marks a slight shift in distribution strategy for the company: until this week, it had only sent its beers as far west as Georgia.
We know your information comes largely from constant updates of our site, but in this week’s mainstream press, there’s plenty of coverage on craft beer’s history — and some forces that might affect its future.
There’s a little idea that’s making some noise in the big, red state. Lucrece Borrego and her boyfriend, Jesus Acosta, are in the process of launching a brewery incubator in downtown Houston. The incubator, which has been primarily funded through more than $36,000 raised on Kickstarter, a crowdfunding website, will serve as the country’s first operating collaborative brewpub and co-working brewery.
It’s a great time to be selling craft beer in Illinois. Deschutes Brewery reported today that since launching in the state on Jan. 7, it has sold more than 18,000 case equivalents to 1,800 customer accounts. “We are thrilled by the volume results from our launch month,” Stacy Denbow, the company’s Market Expansion Manager said… Read more »
Brewbound.com is pleased to announce that Richard Doyle and Daniel Kenary, the co-founders of Harpoon Brewery — one of Boston’s oldest and most prominent craft operations — will be speaking at the Brewbound Session spring conference. The all-day event, geared toward the strategic development of craft beer businesses, will be held on May 2 at… Read more »
Score another one for the Chicago Cluster. Boulevard Brewing confirmed today that the distribution rights for its brands in the Chicago market have been sold to OneIllinois, a consortium of MillerCoors wholesalers known as the “Chicago Cluster.”
If the definitions of “craft” and “crafty” weren’t muddled enough, Third Shift Amber Lager, the latest release from MillerCoors, should do the trick. “This amber lager is a gold-medal winning brew within the Marzen category,” David Coors, Third Shift brand manager, said in a release. “We call it Third Shift to properly honor the brewers who worked through the night in order to pursue their passion of developing something truly unique.
Alchemy & Science, the craft-brew incubation project spearheaded by beer industry veterans Alan Newman and Jim Koch, confirmed today that it has quietly made its latest acquisition. The Vermont-based company recently purchased the trademark rights to the business name “Just Beer” from Buzzards Bay Brewing of Westport, Mass. “Just Beer” was the name of a… Read more »
Breckenridge Brewery is building a new home. The brewery announced yesterday that it will set up shop on 12 acres along the South Platte River in Littleton, Colo., just south of its current home in Denver. Breckenridge will break ground in the fall of 2013, and aims to open the facility in the fall of 2014.
Sixpoint Brewery has published a short documentary film to coincide with the company’s most recent beer release, 3Beans. 3Beans – a 10 percent ABV ale brewed with Romano beans, Cacao beans and cold-brewed coffee – is a collaborative effort between Sixpoint and two other Brooklyn-based companies, Stumptown Coffee and Mast Brothers Chocolate.
