Last month, the brewing community lost one its most eccentric entrepreneurs and a pioneer in craft brewing: Jack Joyce, the founder of Oregon-based Rogue Ales. Joyce, who had been living in Hawaii at the time, died suddenly of a heart attack on May 27 at the age of 71.
A well-read food blogger has convinced the world’s largest brewers to publish, for the first time, a list of ingredients used to make its most popular beers. The North Carolina-based food activist, Vani Hari, who goes by the title “The Food Babe,” yesterday launched an online campaign urging Anheuser-Busch InBev and MillerCoors to disclose a… Read more »
Start with a topic as polarizing as franchise law reform, add a couple hundred brewers, distributors and beer executives, and, inevitably, you’ll end up with plenty of engaging (and sometimes emotional) conversation. That was the case this week in Chicago at the Beer Marketer’s Insights Spring Conference, an event focused on the market for high-end… Read more »
Forty-nine states down, one to go. This July, Green Flash Brewing Co. will expand distribution to Hawaii, per an exclusive agreement with Paradise Beverages Inc. (Par Bev), leaving only one state, Utah, standing in its way of becoming a fully fledged national brand.
Beginning later this year, North Carolina’s Green Man Brewing Co. will “partner brew” out of contract brewing outfit Brew Hub’s pilot facility in Lakeland, Fla. The Lakeland brewery — the first of five contract facilities Brew Hub plans to open throughout the country — is slated to be fully operational by sometime this August.
In the beer industry, there are plenty examples of brand confusion. Then there’s the peculiar case of Pizza Port Brewing Company and Port Brewing Company, two San Diego-area breweries with very close ties to one another. For better or worse, the two companies (which also share two majority partners) have long been confused in the… Read more »
In 2010, Four Loko found itself somewhere between Legos and Windex on the definitive list of things that no human being should ever consume as compiled by screaming heads on television, concerned politicians and horrified parents alike. It was just too much booze, with too much caffeine, in too big a can, and it was bound to kill us all.
Last night, South Carolina Gov. Nikki Haley signed into law the so-called “Stone Bill,” which immediately lifts restrictions for the Palmetto State’s smaller beer companies and makes a number of key changes to the state’s current brewery license regulations.
Tamarron Consulting, known for its annual Malt Beverage Supplier Performance Survey, which polls hundreds of U.S. beer distributors and asks them to rate performance and share perceptions of the leading domestic and import brands, recently made its first foray into craft beer with its inaugural Craft Brewer Performance Survey.
This afternoon, six legislators from the state of South Carolina will hold a conference committee to parse the language of and determine the fate of what has become colloquially known as the ‘Stone Bill.’ The bill — more formerly known in the Senate as S. 1230; H. 3512 in the House — would change the… Read more »
Two Roads Brewing today announced it will increase production capacity to 176,000 barrels as part of a $2.4 million expansion project. In addition to investing in new capacity, the Stratford, Conn.-based brewery will also add filtration, cooling and storage equipment, which, the company said is “necessary to keep up with demand.”
File this marketing stunt under the genius column. In an effort to promote the release of its new summertime seasonal beer, Swill, the folks over at Bend, Ore.-based 10 Barrel Brewing filled a vending machine with the beer, rigged it up to dispense free product and hit the road for a tour of the Pacific… Read more »
Sales of Maine-made craft beer could soon rival those of Vacationland’s most celebrated crustacean and iconic product — the lobstah. According to a new economic study released by the Maine Brewers Guild, craft beer production in Maine is projected to grow by 200 percent in the next four years.
Craft Brew Alliance’s Hawaiian-themed craft brand, Kona Brewing, today unveiled its first major advertising campaign, “Dear Mainland.” The new televisions spots will begin airing this month in urban beach communities like San Diego and Los Angeles as well as Orlando and features two Hawaiian brothers commenting on “common mainlander customs,” like multi-tasking and the brevity of happy hour.
