Brooklyn Brewery, in collaboration with D. Carnegie & Co. and Carlsberg Sweden, today announced a new brewery and restaurant project that will be located in central Stockholm. The Brooklyn-New Carnegie Brewery will be built in the landmark Luma Factory in Hammarby Sj├Âstad, a residential and commercial complex that fronts on Stockholm harbor. The project is… Read more »
For the country’s second biggest producer of craft beer, the old adage of “less is more” has helped shepherd sales of its most coveted offerings. Sierra Nevada Brewing Company, recognizing that the craft beer marketplace was becoming increasingly crowded with an onslaught of new brands, created a solution to help guarantee shelf space and alleviate… Read more »
The distribution rights to two popular craft brands are changing hands in Chicago. Louis Glunz Beer, Inc., a beer wholesaler in Chicago, sold the distribution rights for the country’s 12th-largest craft brewer, Dogfish Head, and New Holland Brewing, a regional craft brewery based in Holland, Mich., to the Chicagoland MillerCoors Distributor Cluster for an undisclosed… Read more »
Fresh out of college, towing Charlie Papazian’s “The Complete Joy of Home Brewing,” also known as “the home brewer’s bible,” Sten Sellier bought his first brew kit. For 10 years, he inched toward his dream.
At a time when double and triple digit growth rates dominate the craft beer headlines, at least one Colorado brewer prefers to take a more modest approach. In the mid-1990’s, Boulder Beer Company, Colorado’s oldest craft brewery, made a few critical decisions to ensure that it could survive for the long term if the industry… Read more »
Despite participating in the largest annual tradeshow for an industry that typically measures innovation in units per minute and is always pursuing economies of scale, a number of the exhibitors at this year’s PACK EXPO offered slower, smaller versions of their products in order to grab the attention of craft brewers.
With nearly 2,000 visitors passing through Boston’s Harpoon Brewery on a weekly basis, the company decided its tasting room, built in 1987, could no longer accommodate the high volume of guests and needed a facelift.
Last Thursday marked the first official brew day for Oskar Blues Brewery at its new facility in Brevard, N.C. The company brewed the first batch of its flagship offering, Dale’s Pale Ale, at the new, $12 million, 30,000 square-foot brewery just seven months after announcing it would be adding the second location.
Consolidation in the middle tier continues as Reyes Beverage Group announced Sunday that it would acquire Windy City Distribution, currently based in Warrenville, Ill. Press materials received by Brewbound.com did not disclose the official terms of the acquisition, but industry publication Beer Marketer’s Insights — which reported the news late last Friday evening— said the… Read more »
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In an editorial broadside launched both in print and online, the Brewers Association lashed out at “crafty” beers produced by international brewing conglomerates yesterday as part of what the BA promises will be a long battle to increase consumer awareness of the definition of craft beer.
It’s a familiar story for those in the craft beer space: While mainstream beer sales remain sluggish, sales of craft beer continue to grow. Consumers are demanding more flavorful options and more purchasing occasions. But Danny Brager, the head of the beverage alcohol group for A.C. Nielsen Co., dug deeper into the topic during the… Read more »
In the past month, Brewbound.com travelled to Denver, San Diego and New York City for the Great American Beer Festival, the National Beer Wholesalers Association conference and the Beer Marketer’s INSIGHTS seminar — in effort to keep a finger on the pulse of the craft beer industry.
Rising demand has made it a great time to be a craft brewer, but there are still branding, marketing and financial initiatives that can help breweries succeed in the business. The interest in learning or sharing the best paths to that success is what motivated more than 130 craft brewers, distributors, and entrepreneurs to attend… Read more »
