The Samuel Adams LongShot Variety six-pack is scheduled to hit shelves next month. The brews will be available nationwide in select retail stories for a suggested retail price of $9.99. The variety pack will include two bottle each of Corey’s ‘A Dark Night in Munich,’ Joe’s ‘Five Crown Imperial Stout,’ and Fred’s ‘Derf’s Secret Alt.’
This year we are introducing ‘first taste,’ an extension of our product reviews designed to give readers our thoughts on a special release beer before it hits the market. Though the 2012 edition of Hop Henge Experimental IPA was released about a week ago, it’s just now finding its way to retailers’ shelves. For a… Read more »
Last Friday, the folks behind Sixpoint Craft Ales shared a photo on their Facebook page teasing their latest canned creation, Resin. And while the 9.1 percent ABV, 103 IBU double IPA is sure to please the hop heads, the packaging was even more intriguing: a 12 oz. tallboy, the same a package used by mega-brewers… Read more »
Samuel Adams drinkers might have to pay a little more for their favorite brew this year. In an interview with Brewbound.com, Boston Beer Co. Founder and CEO Jim Koch said he is anticipating price increases in 2012. Koch estimates barley costs will rise by 30 percent this year, resulting in a 2 to 3 percent… Read more »
Earlier this week, the Mankato, Minn. based start-up Mankato Brewery rolled its first kegs to 17 accounts. The brewery is the first in town since Mankato Brewing closed its doors in 1967. Co-Founder Tim Tupy, who also owns a successful spa business with his wife Tami, began planning for Mankato Brewery in 2009, but his… Read more »
GRAND RAPIDS, MI – Founders Brewing Co.’s Co-Founder and Vice President of Marketing, Dave Engbers, announced today that All Day IPA would be the next addition to the brewery’s year-round lineup, with availability limited to Michigan, Ohio, North Carolina, and the greater Chicago area beginning on February 6, 2012.
In 2011, Kodiak Island Brewing Company produced just 870 barrels, up 8.5 percent over 2010. But it could have been more, according to Ben Millstein, KIBC’s founder and head brewer. That’s because even Kodiak, the nation’s second-largest island in area, but with a population of only 14,000 is experiencing the effects of the craft beer… Read more »
Alchemy & Science, the new craft-brew incubation project from industry veterans Alan Newman and Jim Koch, has made its first move. The Burlington, Vt.-based company today announced the acquisition of Los Angeles, Calif.-based Angel City Brewing. The tiny (2,000 barrels last year), 15-year-old project started by former home brewer Michael Bowe had expanded two years… Read more »
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 »
