One week after revealing plans to box a non-carbonated hard cider, the MillerCoors-owned Crispin Cider Company today announced new product introductions for its Crispin and Fox Barrel brands. The USDA certified organic “naked” lineup features a unique double fermentation process that includes the use of wine yeast during secondary fermentation and is yet another attempt… Read more »
Drawing inspiration from their 2009 collaboration, Life & Limb, Sierra Nevada and Dogfish Head have once again teamed up to create a new brew – Rhizing Bines Imperial IPA. The hop-forward offering combines two different and distinct hopping methods that each brewer employs at their respective breweries.
The 10th Anniversary edition of Samuel Adams Utopias — the high gravity offering from Boston Beer Company (BBC) that drinks more like a fine cognac than a beer – is shaping up to be a record breaker. Boston Beer founder Jim Koch is on a quest to, quite literally, blur the lines between beer and… Read more »
MillerCoors is known for packaging innovations like the vortex bottle, the aluminum pint, punch top cans and The Home Draft Box and now the company is adding boxed cider to that list. The country’s second-largest brewer today announced plans to release boxed, non-carbonated hard cider via the recently acquired Crispin Cider and Fox Barrel brands.
Craft beer took center stage last night at the Democratic National Convention (DNC) as Bill Butcher; the owner of Alexandria, Virginia-based Port City Brewing spoke on behalf of small business owners in support of President Barack Obama. “Our President has fought for small business owners and now it’s time to fight for him,” Butcher said.
The Brewers Association hosted its annual 2012 mid-year craft beer category sales review, this afternoon, confirming what most in the industry had already assumed: craft beer is on pace to achieve its seventh consecutive year of double-digit dollar sales growth in SIG-tracked U.S. Supermarkets.
Word on the street from recently established Boston-area contract brewers is that they need a place to call home. Brewbound.com spoke to three emerging local breweries — Notch Brewing, Somerville Brewing Company and Blatant Beer – at last Friday night’s Massachusetts Brewers Guild Fest about their top priorities, and one of the primary concerns voiced… Read more »
Oskar Blues continued its impressive growth in 2012 with the largest Chicago launch of any craft brewer to date. The Longmont, Colo.- based craft brewer moved over 5,000 cases during its first five days in the craft-savvy Chicago area. The successful launch of the brand in the midwest coincides with an announcement from Birmingham Beverage… Read more »
Craft Brewers across the Southeast and Texas are hoping to change liquor distribution laws that currently prevent small breweries from selling beer from their breweries directly to consumers for off-premise consumption. Currently, Texas brewers, led by St. Arnold Brewing Co. founder Brock Wagner, are mounting a legislative challenge against their state’s laws.
Goose Island is officially migrating all over the country. The Chicago Tribune reported Friday afternoon that the Anheuser-Busch InBev owned craft brewery will be available, on draught, in all 50 states by the end of November. It will be begin national sales of 6-packs and 12-packs at the start of 2013.
Bronx, NY-based Manhattan Beer Distributors is one of largest wholesalers in the country, with case sales slated to top 33 million and dollar sales trending towards $700 million in 2012. But the wholesaler, which does more than 50 percent of its volume in MillerCoors and Crown Imports products, has begun dedicating outsized attention elsewhere: to… Read more »
It’s been almost 18 months since Chicago-based Goose Island was acquired by Anheuser-Busch InBev. Despite some initial pushback from die-hard craft enthusiasts who cried foul over the possibility their beloved brewer had sold out, the company has shown impressive growth, up 20 percent over the past year, and it should soar even higher in the… Read more »
The Brewers Association (BA) released a snapshot of the craft beer landscape through July last week and the most recent numbers continue to reflect the unprecedented growth of the craft segment. BA director Paul Gatza reports on the organization’s website that 16 new breweries went online last month, bringing the total U.S. count to 2,142…. Read more »
Craft brewers are starting to question the safety of an increasingly popular kind of plastic keg following a summer in which those kegs were linked to at least one accidental death and a pair of other explosions at breweries. On April 24th, a plastic keg being emptied with pressurized air exploded and killed a Portsmouth,… Read more »
