Year: 2012

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News Pepsi to Provide Dist in OR

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I knew this would pop up – sooner or later.
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News Important GABF Information

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The Brewers Association released information today on some changes to the GABF format. From Jeff Mendel of the BA Events Committee;
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News Here Come the Zip Codes

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Remember when the story broke about Anheuser Bush trade marking many different zip codes? No one was certain how they might be used as a beer brand. Now we know at least one zip-code-marketing concept.
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News Is Plastic the Future?

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Scientists at a nanoscience institute in Dublin, Ireland are working with SABMiller on a project to increase the shelf life of bottled beer in plastic bottles.
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News Craft Industry Losses a Pioneer

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Tom Pastorius, who founded the Pennsylvania Brewing Co., died Thursday of prostate cancer at the age of 67.
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News NAB for Sale?

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According to an article in Reuters, North American Breweries has been put up for sale by its owner, private equity firm KPS Capital Partners.
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News Brewery Owner Speaks at DNC

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Bill Butcher, the owner of Port City Brewing Company in Alexandria, VA, spoke to the Democratic National Convention Wednesday night. Not exactly prime time, but pretty cool have a craft brewery owner on stage.
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News M/C Exec Lands at Boulevard

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Boulevard Brewing has hired Mike Magoulas, the former regional vice president for MillerCoors.
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News New Twist for GABF Awards Ceremony

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New for 2012, the GABF awards ceremony will take place on Saturday, October 13 at 10:30 am.
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News AB to Roll-out Goose Island Nationally

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Anheuser-Busch announced it will do a national roll-out of Goose Island Beer which the company acquired last year. Currently, the beers are only sold in Chicago with limited availability elsewhere.
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News Artisanal Picks Up SBS Brands

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Artisanal Imports of Austin, TX announced today the acquisition of the USA brand importing rights held by SBS Imports of Seattle, WA. Artisanal will now be the exclusive U.S. importer of Aspall Cyders from Suffolk, England; Batemans Ales from Lincolshire, England; Bellegems Bruin from the Bockor Brewery in Bellegem, Belgium; and the De Proef Brewmaster’s & Collaboration Series from Lochristi, Belgium. The acquisition will become effective September 1, 2012. Other terms were not disclosed.
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News ABG Scholarship Offered

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The Glen Hay Falconer Foundation, in collaboration with the American Brewers Guild, is once again offering a full-tuition scholarship to the Guild’s Intensive Brewing Science & Engineering program.
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News BA Mid-year Stat Snapshot

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From Paul Gatza at the Brewers Association;
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News And the Ashville Race is On…

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How quickly can a brewery be built?
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News Honey, Where Did you Put My Canning Line?

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I know that brewing equipment for start-ups is hard to come by these days – but stealing a canning line? More likely stolen for the scrap value – or maybe not.
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News CBA Depletions Up 3% in Qtr. 2

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Craft Brewers Alliance reported net sales of $82.8 million and net income of $1.3 million for the six months ended June 30, 2012, as compared with net sales of $73.8 million and net income of $8.2 million a year ago.
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News China Leads Global Beer Growth

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A report by Kirin Holdings, owner of the Japanese brewing company, said global beer production was up 3.7% last year from 2010. China was the world’s largest beer producer — accounting for about 25 percent — for the 10th straight year.
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News 2012 Mid-way Numbers Boom Again

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The Brewers Association has released strong mid-year numbers with dollar sales up 14 percent in the first half of 2012, while volume of craft brewed beer sold jumped 12 percent during that same time period.
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News Boston Beer Up 7% – Plans Sales Force Increase

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Boston Beer Co.’s second-quarter earnings slid 49% due to a prior-year glass recall settlement gain and increased spending on brand investments and barley costs increase.
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News GABF Ticker Snafu

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Ticetmaster pulled a big blunder when GABF ticket sales went on sale online for Brewer’s Association and American Homebrewers Association members. Apparently Ticketrmaster failed to check that the orders were indeed from BA or AHA members and also failed to stick to the 4 ticket per-order limit. This has left a lot of BA and AHA members without tickets to this year’s event.
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News NBWA in SD Oct. 14th-17th

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The National Beer Wholesalers Association (NBWA) Annual Convention will take place in San Diego October 14 – 17, 2012.
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News New Albion Re-born

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An article in All About Beer online has am interesting and detailed look at how Jack McAuliffe, founder of the ‘first’ microbrewery and Jim Koch of Boston Beer have teamed up to recreate New Albion beer.
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European Rains Affect Barley Crop

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Torrential rains that slammed northern Europe this summer has delayed crop development from the U.K. to Sweden, threatening the quality of the barley crop.
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News ABInBev Revenue Up – Sales Down

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Once again, the world’s largest brewer increased profits and revenue while selling less beer.
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