Maui Brewing Company disconnected from the power grid. Not like in northern California where last week’s temporary power shut off was due to extreme fire danger, but by choice. The Maui Brewing production plant in Kihei, Maui, Hawaii now gets 100 percent of their power from self-sustaining, off-grid sources. The 85,000 square foot brewery… Read More…
Craft Beer Marketing Awards Competition Announced
The Craft Beer Marketing Awards (CBMAs) will kick-off their inaugural awards ceremony at the Craft Brewer’s Conference (CBC) in San Antonio, TX. Breweries, ad agencies brewery marketing partners can enter the competition. There will be more than 30 categories recognizing such marketing components as social media, merchandise design, label design and tap handle design…. Read More…
Colorado’s First Craft Brewery to Downsize
One of the oldest craft breweries in the country, and Colorado’s first, announced that they will significantly downsize, ending all packaging and limiting sales to only the brewery brewpub and taproom. Boulder Beer, which pre-dates even Sierra Nevada Brewing will end its multi-state distribution of bottles, cans and kegs and operate only as a… Read More…
Falconer Foundation Scholarship Deadline Only A Month Away!
APPLY NOW FOR FALCONER FOUNDATION SCHOLARSHIP TO AMERICAN BREWERS GUILD In collaboration with the American Brewers Guild, The Falconer Foundation is offering a full-tuition scholarship to ABG’s Intensive Brewing Science & Engineering program. The Intensive Brewing Science & Engineering course is a 22-week distance education program with a final week of residential instruction. The course… Read More…
A Brewhouse Goes on Tour
To celebrate the 40th anniversary of Sierra Nevada Brewing Company, the company decided to do a tour. Of its original brewhouse that is. The 10-barrel system, originally hand built by founder Ken Grossman, was mounted on a trailer and took its first road trip; to the Great American Beer Festival in Denver last week… Read More…
And the Winner Is……GABF 2019 Medal Winners
The results are in! Exactly 283 medals were handed out today in Denver at the Great American Beer Festival annual competition. See the complete list here with a searchable list by state and style category here.
Behind the Curtain of the GABF Competition Judging
After much deliberation of which beers to submit for judging at the Great American Beer Festival Competition, the detailed task of entering each one and the final effort of shipping it off to Denver, the next step in the process begins. What takes place behind the scenes of the GABF competition is as impressive as… Read More…
Calif. ABC Fines Grocery Chain for Trade Practice Violations
The California Department of Alcoholic Beverage Control (ABC) announced that they have reached an agreement with Albertsons LLC, Safeway Inc., and The Vons Companies, Inc. to pay $600,000 following an ABC investigation that alleged violations of California alcoholic beverage laws. The violations arose out of the sale of alcoholic beverages in connection with the… Read More…
Milestones – and the 38th Annual GABF
Iowa just hit 100 breweries. California recently surpassed one thousand. The openings continue, maybe not at the pace of the last five years, but brewery openings continue to sprout all across the country. There were 7000 breweries at the end of 2018 in the US, with another 1000 expected to open this year. … Read More…
AB Takes on More Distribution in California
According to industry sources, Markstein Beverage Co., an independent Anheuser-Busch wholesaler in San Diego county, California, has agreed to sell its key brands to AB. This will add to the existing AB-owned distribution footprints that AB already has in the state. AB is the largest distributor in California. Markstein, which also operates AB houses… Read More…
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