Pabst Brewing Company has been through a long and storied history. It’s a brand that has always been able to find a new life, just as it looked like the end might be near. The company dates back to the mid-1880’s and became the first American brewery to reach 1 million barrels of production… Read More…
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2020 Craft Beer Marketing Awards Home of “The Crushies” Honoring the Best Beer Marketing Awarded during CBC in Texas!
Boulder Beer to Close Brewery
Iconic pioneering Boulder Beer Company announced yesterday that they will close their Boulder, Colorado brewery and sell the building. The announcement comes just three months after the company said that they were downsizing by terminating all packaging and limiting business to only their onsite brewery tap room sales. Not more than a few weeks… Read More…
A Taste Test of Hard Seltzers?
Compared to even the subtle and delicate flavor profile of an authentic Pilsner style lager (let alone a robust IPA), hard seltzers, well, just don’t really taste. Maybe the distant flavor of a fruit, but that is about as complex of a flavor profile this new prolific beverage gets. The Growler took this elusive… Read More…
What Does the Next Decade Hold for Beer?
Another decade behind us. Take yourself back to the year 2010 and recall what the beer industry looked like. Far, far fewer breweries, IPA’s just beginning to emerge as the leading craft style, Anheuser-Busch InBev had yet to acquire their first craft brewery (they purchased Goose Island in 2011) and craft was the darling… Read More…
Almost Done – Congress Passes One Year extension of Tax Bill
Congressional leaders came to an agreement on a tax extender package this week that includes a one-year extension of the recalibrated federal excise tax (FET) rates for breweries and the ability to transfer beer between bonded facilities, the Brewers Association reported. The House passed the appropriations packed bill on Monday and the Senate passed… Read More…
How Utah Turned Leftover Low-ABV Beer into Natural Gas
After Utah’s recent “Big Dump”, when 275 cases of bottles and cans were taken from a warehouse in Salt Lake City to Wasatch Resource Recovery and all 275 cases—almost $18,000 worth of now-discontinued beer—were poured out. According to the Salt Lake Tribune, the sad situation was necessary, because the beer could no longer be sold… Read More…
Falconer Foundation Awards American Brewers Guild Scholarship
News Release from Falconer Foundation From an outstanding group of talented applicants, Annie Johnson of PicoBrew (Seattle, WA) has been named recipient of the 2020 American Brewers Guild scholarship. Annie will be attending ABG’s Intensive Brewing Science & Engineering course that runs from January to June 2020. The Intensive Brewing Science & Engineering course is… Read More…
Top Trends in 2020? Brewers Answer
From Seltzers, to IPA’s (again) to milkshake hard seltzer (hopefully a jest) to lagers. VinePair asked 14 brewery professionals across the country what they see as the top trends in 2020. Here are the results. And what do you say?
PA Does it Right – Approves Grants for State’s Brewers
Pennsylvania Governor Tom Wolf announced last week that the Pennsylvania Liquor Control Board has approved $1.2 million in grants for 18 projects to increase the production of Pennsylvania-made beer and enhance the Pennsylvania beer industry through promotion, marketing, and research-based programs and projects. “Pennsylvania’s craft brewers are some of the most innovative, entrepreneurial people… Read More…