Atwater, which recently completed a $1 million upgrade to its facility, is searching for a 70,000 square-foot site in its home city, Detroit. The site would expand Atwater’s production capabilities, increasing production to approximately 100,000 barrels per year.
The founder of the country’s largest craft brewery, the Boston Beer Company (BBC), announced yesterday plans to allow other craft brewers the opportunity to use a patent-pending can package that Koch spent two years and $1 million designing. “We’ve decided to make the patent-pending design available, without any royalty or license fee, to all craft… Read more »
After 16 years of championing the contract brewing business model, Shmaltz Brewing founder Jeremy Cowan has opted for a more traditional approach. A Jewish-themed craft beer company with offices in both San Francisco and Brooklyn, Shmaltz will be able to call Clifton Park, New York home when it opens its first brick and mortar facility… Read more »
On paper, the Brew Hub concept has many industry experts intrigued. For fast-growing craft breweries wrestling with capacity and capital constraints, the idea of expanding production without the added investment risk in a second brewery is enticing.
Brewbound is pleased to announce the addition of a pair of retail experts to its speaker lineup for the May 2 Brewbound Session in Boston. The all-day business conference geared towards the strategic development of craft beer businesses will be held at the Revere Hotel in downtown Boston.
MillerCoors has come up with a crafty way to get its brands on television — TIVO notwithstanding. The beer giant is partnering with Turner Broadcasting for marketing spots across TBS, TNT, CNN, truTV, Funny Or Die, NBA on TNT, Bleacher Report, and NASCAR.com, among others.
Forty-nine down and one to go. The American Homebrewers Association, or AHA, recently announced that Mississippi governor Phil Bryant signed a bill to legalize homebrewing throughout the state.
Hoping to take advantage of the growth of craft beer, a start-up company plans to spend $100 million on building five new contract brewing facilities over the next five years. The company, Brew Hub LLC, was started by former Anheuser-Busch executive Tim Schoen. It is majority-owned by Yucaipa Companies, a private equity firm started by… Read more »
Craft beer is now a $10 billion category. As part of its annual report on the state of the U.S. craft beer industry, the Brewers Association (BA) — a trade group representing small and independent brewers — indicated that U.S. craft beer volumes reached an all-time high last year.
Brewbound Session Spring ’13 – a one-day conference on the business of craft beer – is fast approaching. If you haven’t already registered, this is a reminder that April 1 is the final day to take advantage of our early registration discount.
With a slate of craft beer-related bills awaiting approval from the Texas legislature, a group of in-state brewers have expressed mixed feelings about the proposed measures.
Another week, another can. This time, Deschutes Brewery, the country’s fifth largest craft brewer, confirmed to Brewbound.com today its plans to contract brew and can its Mirror Pond Pale Ale. “We see the potential there,” said marketing manager Jason Randles. “We want to have Mirror Pond in cans.”
While bottles and cans have served as the core packages in craft beer’s surge, the 32 and 64 oz. resealable bottle known as the growler has lagged behind. It’s not for lack of desire — growlers are one of the most popular containers for brewers and consumers alike. What has hampered the growth of the growler is that, in many retail locations, it remains illegal to refill them.
Brewbound.com is pleased to announce that Andy Thomas, the president of commercial operations for Craft Brew Alliance (CBA), will present at the upcoming Brewbound Session, which will be held at the Revere Hotel in Boston on May 2. Using CBA as a case study, Thomas will discuss the ways that CBA has built national distribution strategies for the three formerly regional breweries that comprise the company’s core.
