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.
In an effort to “bridge the gap” until 400,000 barrels of new capacity goes online at New Belgium Brewing’s new Asheville, North Carolina facility in 2015, the country’s third largest craft brewer today began installation of 16 new tanks at the company’s Fort Collins, Colo. production facility. The project is expected to be completed before… Read more »
Whether you’re a warlord or a couch hog, a new Belgian-style beer will soon be on tap to help validate your dedication to your craft. Game of Thrones, the award-winning HBO series based off the fantasy novels of George R.R. Martin, will collaborate on a line of beers with Brewery Ommegang of Cooperstown, N.Y.
Consolidation in the middle tier continues as Reyes Beverage Group announced Sunday that it would acquire Windy City Distribution, currently based in Warrenville, Ill. Press materials received by Brewbound.com did not disclose the official terms of the acquisition, but industry publication Beer Marketer’s Insights — which reported the news late last Friday evening— said the… Read more »
Most everyone in the beer industry was talking about the difference between craft and crafty yesterday, but not everyone was happy to be having the conversation. Several brewers, large and small, took issue yesterday with statements by the Brewers Association (BA), releasing public comments defending their position in the brewing world — comments that they… Read more »
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In an editorial broadside launched both in print and online, the Brewers Association lashed out at “crafty” beers produced by international brewing conglomerates yesterday as part of what the BA promises will be a long battle to increase consumer awareness of the definition of craft beer.
The Beer Institute announced new data yesterday which pegs the number of active permitted brewers at 2,751, an all-time high. It’s the highest number of U.S. brewers ever recorded by the Beer Institute, up from 2,309 active permitted brewers in 2011.
