Category: News From The Breweries
News stories from craft brewing companies
News Smithsonian Obtains Important Items and Documents from Anchor Brewing
As yet, no buyer has step up to purchase the now-closed Anchor Brewing Co, leaving the intellectual property rights to Anchor Steam and other Anchor brands still unknown. But the Smithsonian’s National Museum of American History has recently acquired objects and archival materials from Anchor for its collections. The museum collected the company’s business records and a selection of items including brewing charts and photographs.
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News Cape May Brewing Ends Self-Distribution – Moves to MillerCoors Network
Cape May Brewing Company has announced that it will divest its distribution rights and cease self-distribution of its products through Cape Beverage Distributing. The move may be a rising trend among craft brewers who decide to focus their attention on the brewing side of the business and at the same time extract working capital by selling the distribution rights to beer wholesalers.
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News Anchor Brewing Employees Continue Effort to Buy Brewery
Employees of the shuttered Anchor Brewing Company have raised over $90,000 and are moving on to the next step of buying back the brewery as an employee-owned co-op. The initial funds will go in part to pay for legal assistance as the groups looks to attrack outside investors.
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News Major Upgrade for Stone Breweries to Brew Sapporo Beer for US Market
Sapporo is gearing up to produce Sapporo beers for the US market at both Stone Brewing Co. breweries by making a significant investment in new equipment and expanded capacity. Although the recent closure of Anchor Brewing in San Francisco seems to have signaled a failed experiment, the two Stone breweries offer a more modern facility to make Sapporo beers.
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News ‘We Were All Brewers’ – Longtime Anchor Employees Talks About Brewery Closure
David Burkhart was an employee at Anchor Brewing in San Francisco for 31 years; half of his life. Like many in the industry, it seems inconceivable to him that Anchor is gone forever, and he envisions an angel, “hovering over the brewery, who sees the value in a small business that makes unique, local, delicious, beautiful products — San Francisco in a glass.”
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News Diageo to Roll-Out Non-Alcoholic Guinness on Draft in Ireland – Increase Capacity by 300%
In a testament of confidence in the growing non-alcoholic beer category, Diageo has made a major investment to its famed St. James Gate brewery in Dublin to increase the capacity by 300% to make Guinness 0.0. The company will begin to roll-out the non-alcoholic stout on draft across Ireland this summer.
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News Anchor Brewing to End All Sales Outside California
The storied Anchor Brewing Company of San Francisco, without question the founding linchpin of the craft brewing movement, announced that they would cease sales of all Anchor beers in the US except for in California. They will also discontinue making the iconic Anchor Christmas Ale.
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News Sierra Nevada CEO Jeff White to Retire – Ken Grossman to Take Over During Search for Replacement
Sierra Nevada Brewing CEO Jeff White has announced his retirement and will be stepping down from the position in the near future. Founder Ken Grossman will assume to role of interim CEO while the company conducts a search for a permanent replacement.
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News Merger Mania Continues – River Horse Buys DuClaw
DuClaw Brewing Company, the 25-year-old Maryland brewery that is distributed in 21 states has been acquired by River Horse Brewing Company in Ewing, NJ. It is the third acquisition or merger in the craft brewing industry in the last few weeks.
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News Bell’s Brewery Expanding Distribution Into Pacific Northwest
In a time when many craft breweries are retracting their distribution footprint to achieve better focus as the segment becomes more competitive, some are instead looking to gain sales by expanding into new markets. Bell’s Brewery which was acquired by Lion, a division of Japan’s Kirin, is adding new markets by expanding into the states of Alaska, Idaho, Oregon, Washington and Utah.
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News New Belgium Buys Constellation Brewery in Virginia
New Belgium Brewing has announced that it will acquire the Constellation brewery in Daleville, Virginia. In addition to brewing its own brands at the site, New Belgium has reached an agreement a contract brew Constellation brands as well.
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News AB-owned Platform Brewery in Cleveland Shuts Down
Anheuser-Busch owned Platform Brewery has closed its doors and ceased operation. The Cleveland-based brewery, which was founded in 2014 was acquired by AB in 2019. There is speculation that AB may continue producing some Platform core brands at one of its other facilities.
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News Boston Beer to Air Super Bowl Ad Touting ‘Remastered’ Sam Adams
Boston Beer Company has recently announced the launch of a “remastered” Samuel Adams Boston Lager, which the company will feature in an ad that includes comedian Lenny Clarke and former Celtics player Kevin Garnett. A 30-second version of the ad will air during the Super Bowl broadcast on February 12th.
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News AB Sells Off Eight Craft Brands to Tilray Including10-Barrel, Widmer, Redhook, Breckenridge and Shock Top
Posted by Tom McCormick
Large global brewers have been slowly selling off their acquired craft brands in recent months. That trickle is now a deluge as Anheuser-Busch announced that they will sell eight craft beer, cider, and energy drink brands to Tilray Brands Inc. The sell-off includes 10-barrel Brewing, Widmer Brothers, Redhook, Breckenridge Brewery and Blue Point Brewing along with the AB in-house craft brand Shock Top.
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