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…
New Process Converts Spent Grain into High-Value Carbon
As reported in Anthropocene magazine, a study in the Journal of Chemical Technology and Biotechnology has shown that brewer’s grain can be converted into two forms of carbon using readily available and inexpensive chemicals combined with heat. Both carbon compound have many high-value applications. A Belfast team first dried the grain then mixed in… Read More…
Boulder Beer Back in Distribution
Just two weeks after pioneering Colorado brewery Boulder Beer Co. announced it would soon be shipping its last bottled products and selling beer only out of the brewery tap room, the brewery has struck an agreement with a nearby brewer to contract Boulder beer in package. Sleeping Giant Brewing Co. has agreed to produce… Read More…
So…..Who is Kings and Convict?
That is the question circulating through the industry after it was announced this week that Ballast Point Brewing had been acquired from Constellation Brands by a small 600 bbl annual production brewery in Chicagoland. It seemed, on the surface, to be the most unlikely of all of the acquisitions and mergers that have been rampant… Read More…
Anderson Valley Sells to McGee Family
Another day, another deal. Pioneering Anderson Valley Brewing in rural northern California has sold to industry veteran Kevin McGee and his family. The terms of the deal were not disclosed. Founded in 1987 by chiropractor Ken Allen the brewery is know for its flagship brand Boont Amber. The brewery was sold to Trey… Read More…
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Constellation Sells Ballast Point
That was quick. Four years after paying a billion dollars to buy Ballast Point Brewing, Constellation Brands has announced that they will sell the brewery to Kings & Convicts Brewing Co. of Chicago. Full press release here.
Ten-Year Low for Beer U.S. Sales
Once again, beer sales are down. According to data provided by the Beer Institute (BI), shipments of domestically-brewed beer are down 1.8% YTD through October representing a drop of 2.6 million barrels. If the trend holds steady through the fourth quarter of the year, it will be the lowest sales of beer in over 10… Read More…
Boycott of Japanese beer in South Korea
Boycott of Japanese beer sees shipments to South Korea plunge to zero Exports of Japanese beer to South Korea, the domestic industry’s biggest overseas market last year, fell to virtually zero in October as Korean consumers shunned products from their Asian neighbor amid a dispute over wartime history. Via Japantimes
Alcohol byproduct of non alcoholic beer production used in green detergent
Alcohol removed from booze-less beer finds use in green detergent Wash your dishes with suds spiked with leftover alcohol, sez the world’s largest brewer and an environmentally friendly detergent company. Growing interest in alcohol-free lager left Anheuser-Busch InBev with a problem — what to do with all the alcohol sucked out of its beer. The… Read More…
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