REDLANDS, CA – On December 31st, Hangar 24 Craft Brewery broke the 15,000 barrel production mark and graduated from being classified as a “Microbrewery” to a “Regional Craft Brewery”. (A Regional Craft Brewery produces between 15,000 and 6,000,000 barrels of beer per year.) The Craft Brewer’s Association recorded 1,767 Craft Breweries in the United States… Read more »
The New Belgium Lips of Faith series is really a chance for the brewers to spread their wings and explore, and one of the newest offerings (though we are bit behind on the review) is Clutch. 80 percent stout blended with 20 percent dark sour wood beer make for quite the interesting drink. Clutch pours… Read more »
ST. LOUIS, MO – The Saint Louis Brewery, Inc., brewer of Schlafly Beer has signed a purchase agreement that will transfer a 60% ownership interest in the business to a local investor group led by Wes Jones and John Lemkemeier of St. Louis and including David Schlafly, also of St. Louis, the first cousin of… Read more »
Later this month, Clown Shoes Beer will add Philadelphia to the growing list of markets that the small contract brewing operation based out of Ipswich, MA is currently being distributed.
If you aren’t familiar with Jack’s Abby yet, don’t worry — you will be soon enough. A Boston area startup that began brewing in July of this year, Jack’s Abby specializes in nothing but lagers. And if you had any doubt about the potential of the lager category, one sip of their delicious brews might… Read more »
Last summer the Federal Alcohol and Tobacco Tax and Trade Bureau (TTB) cracked down on the Kombucha category, forcing many brands whose alcohol content in the drink exceeded the legal limit of 0.5 percent ABV off the shelves. And while category leaders like GT and High Country Kombucha committed to altering their recipes in order… Read more »
Kailua-Kona, HI – Starting the week of January 17th 2012, the markets of Pennsylvania, Delaware and South New Jersey will round out the east coast distribution areas for Kona Brewing Company signature beers. The three markets will carry Kona Brewing’s flagship Longboard Island Lager, along with the rest of Kona’s portfolio, in stores and on… Read more »
Stone Brewing Co. loves to collaborate and when they do, things usually turn out pretty well. Their latest brings together the talents of John Kimmich of The Alchemist and Jamie Floyd of Ninkasi. More Brown Than Black IPA, Stone’s fifth collaboration beer in 2011 was brewed in support of the victims of Hurricane Irene, which… Read more »
As the year comes to a close, we have noticed a tremendous amount of ‘list-pieces,’ most of which offer up a specific writers top 10 beers of the year. We decided to take a slightly different approach. Below is a list of craft beer happenings in 2011 we thought were significant enough to write about…. Read more »
2011 saw an abundance of litigious battles involving craft brewers. The President of Bell’s Brewery, Larry Bell, was at the center of two notable legal disputes, most recently involving the Novato Calif. Based Winery Exchange. Bell, who sent a cease and desist letter to the company in June, claims the company is infringing on the… Read more »
Give Shmaltz proprietor Jeremy Cowan some credit – not many craft brewers will release the same beer four different times with very slight variations in the recipe. But Cowan, in his search for the perfect IPA recipe is doing just that with Hop Manna. Test Batch number four, brewed with more varieties of hops than… Read more »
2011 was quite the year for craft brewed literature — among them, works from New Belgium, Stone Brewing Co., Shmaltz and Dogfish Head. If you’re still looking for that last minute gift for the craft beer lover in your life, consider skipping yet another trip to the local bottle shop and try the bookstore instead.
You’ll never catch us consulting a focus group here at Dogfish, but if you drop by you’ll probably catch us chatting with our regulars and listening to their requests. The No. 1 thing Dogfish lovers ask for at our pub, in our brewery and on our website? Gluten-free beer, by far. But not just any… Read more »
At last count, there were over 800 breweries in planning across the U.S. One of those breweries looking to open in 2012 is Critical Mass, a Boston-based company hoping to put down its roots in the historically ‘rough and tumble’ neighborhood of South Boston.
