Brooklyn Brewery President and co-founder Steve Hindy had one more bomb to drop on the final day of the Craft Brewers Conference: Hindy is selling his voting shares in Brooklyn Brewery. “I am very happy,” Hindy said in an interview with Brewbound. “You can own a company and not really benefit financially, particularly a startup… Read more »
The 2012 Craft Brewers Conference has been underway for less than five hours and already people are buzzing, and it’s not from the beer. A fedora-wearing Steve Hindy, the Brooklyn Brewery President, gave this year’s keynote address to a packed room of roughly 4,500 craft industry members. Sporting a fedora is necessary, of course, if… Read more »
Oskar Blues is getting aggressive. Today, the Longmont, Colo. based brewery broke news of an east coast expansion in Brevard, North Carolina. If you’re keeping count, Oskar Blues is now the third regional brewery planning to build a second location in N.C. – Sierra Nevada and New Belgium are the others.
In a move that is particularly relevant for craft brewers — who tend to rely more on online and social media to market their products rather than traditional advertising — the U.S. Federal Trade Commission is looking into online marketing of beverage alcohol.
North Carolina is rapidly becoming the hottest destination for craft brewers to expand. Today, the Longmont, Colo. based Oskar Blues Brewery announced plans to build a 30,000 sq. ft. brewery in Brevard, North Carolina. Plans also call for a 6,000 sq. ft. restaurant and music venue and the entire project should be complete by December,… Read more »
On the eve of the 2012 Craft Brewers Conference (CBC), Bell’s Brewery President, Larry Bell, has managed to once again make the news. Last year he was squabbling with Northern Brewer over the use of the previously named “Three Hearted Ale” homebrewing kit. This year, he’s discussing a sale. Yesterday, Bell told MLive.com that he’d… Read more »
It’s not quite the European expansion that Stone Brewing’s CEO and co-founder has been discussing for some time now, but Greg Koch is headed abroad. Koch has partnered with Avanish Vellanki and Shailenda Bist on a new craft brewing project based in India. Independence Brewing Company will become the only independently owned and operated craft… Read more »
Thousands of craft brewers from across the country will converge on San Diego next week for the 2012 Craft Brewers Conference, presented by the Brewers Association. As one of the largest industry events for professional brewers, brewpubs and packaging breweries, CBC offers a wide-ranging spectrum of seminars and discussions aimed at providing brewers the chance… Read more »
Talk about building from the ground up: Golden Road co-founder Meg Gill is so busy running L.A.’s newest brewery that she doesn’t even have time to take a seat. “I’m still working on the floor of my office because I don’t have anyone to go buy me a chair, and I don’t have time to… Read more »
A Redhook Brewery employee is in critical condition after an exploding keg sent the worker to the hospital with “life-threatening injuries,” according to the website for the Portsmouth Press Herald. The worker was reportedly cleaning the keg when it exploded. The brewery has since closed the brewery’s ‘Cataqua Pub’ for the remainder of the day… Read more »
UBS, the global financial services company headquartered in Switzerland, released an investment report today on the country’s top craft brewer, Boston Beer Co. The inaugural rating for the makers of Samuel Adams? Neutral. UBS sees “limited upside” in SAM shares. UBS reports that despite being the largest craft brewer in the U.S. — they produced… Read more »
The Brewers Association—the not-for-profit trade group that tabulates production statistics for U.S. breweries—today released its annual lists of the top 50 craft and overall brewing companies in the U.S., based on 2011 beer sales volume. Of the top 50 overall brewing companies, 36 are small and independent craft brewing companies.
By now, you’ve probably already heard that New Belgium will be building a second location in Asheville, NC. The Fort Collins, Colo.-based company is one of four regional craft breweries — those producing more than 15,000 barrels annually — to announce secondary locations this year. The others – Sierra Nevada, Victory Brewing and Lagunitas –… Read more »
A group of Massachusetts craft brewers is proposing that the state change what they believe are outdated beer distribution regulations, allowing craft brewers more freedom to switch wholesalers. House Bill 1897 would allow small brewers — those who sell less than 6 million barrels of beer globally and account for less than 20 percent of… Read more »
