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.
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 »
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.
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.
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.
It’s still just a regional brewer, but Ninkasi Brewing Co. had a growth rate that outpaced every other significant craft operation in the nation this year. With sales of nearly $11 million, the five year-old Eugene, Ore. based brewer was up 117 percent in dollar sales over the 52-week period ending on Oct. 30, according… Read more »
The craft beer industry could use more folks like Chris Lohring from Notch Brewing. In a marketplace crowded with ‘me-too’ IPA’s and boozy beers that that put you to sleep after a just single glass, Lohring is proving that unrecognized styles and session offerings can still find favor amongst consumers. The latest installment in his… Read more »
