Category: News From The Breweries

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News Legacy Brewery Hair of the Dog to Close

Posted by Tom McCormick

Hair of the Dog Brewery, known for its big, strong beers and barrel-aging process in the early days of the craft beer movement will close its doors.
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News Modern Times to Close Four Locations

Posted by Tom McCormick

Modern Times Beer of San Diego announced today in a company blog post that they will be closing four of their seven satellite locations. The company will be closing their Portland, Oakland, Santa Barbara, and Los Angeles tap rooms while their two San Diego locations (North Park and Ensenada) and Anaheim locations will remain open. Their production brewery and tap room located in Point Loma, San Diego will also remain open.
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News New Horizons – Outer Range Brewing Set to Open New Location in French Alps

Posted by Tom McCormick

Feeling like the craft beer market is getting saturated here in the U.S? In what may be a new wave of out-of-the box expansions, Outer Range Brewing, of Frisco, Colorado has announced that they are opening a second location in the in the French Alp town of town of Sallanches, France
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News Monster Jumps into Alcohol Biz – Buys CANarchy

Posted by Tom McCormick

In another big move in the consolidating beverage industry, Monster Beverage Corporation, maker of Monster Energy drink announced today the acquisition of CANarchy Brewery Collective. CANarchy includes Denver’s Oskar Blues, Cigar City Brewing Co. in Florida, Dallas’ Deep Ellum Brewing Co., Perrin Brewing Co. in Michigan and Utah’s Squatters and Wasatch breweries
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News Russian River Postpones Pliny the Younger Release

Posted by Tom McCormick

The surge in omicron has many industry events reevaluating plans to cancel, postpone or go forward with events that are planned for the coming weeks and months. One well-known event, Russian River Brewing’s Pliny the Younger release has been postponed until late March. The annual event draws beer consumers from around the country who travel to the Santa Rosa, California brewery for a long wait in line to buy the popular double IPA.
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News AquaBrew and ShotGun Seltzer Announce Merger Deal

Posted by Tom McCormick

Two Texas craft breweries, AquaBrew, and ShotGun Seltzer announced that they have reached an agreement to merge.
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News Another Casualty in ‘Big Beer Buys Craft Beer’ – Molson Coors to Shut Saint Archer

Posted by Tom McCormick

Molson Coors today announced that it will cease operations of the Saint Archer brewery and remove Saint Archer brands from the retail marketplace. The company plans to sell its San Diego brewery and taproom to Kings & Convicts Brewing Company.
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News Modern Times Names Jennifer Briggs as CEO

Posted by Tom McCormick

San Diego’s Modern Times Beer has named Jennifer Briggs as its new chief executive after the company’s former CEO Jacob McKean stepped down in May amid #MeToo-like social media posts about toxic work environments for women in the craft beer industry.
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News IndieBrew Adds Bearded Iris to Its ‘Shared Service Platform’

Posted by Tom McCormick

IndieBrew, which was established this last October, announced today that Nashville-based Bearded Iris Brewing will join Scofflaw Brewing as the second co-founder on its so-called “shared service platform.”
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News SweetWater to Buy San Diego’s Green Flash Brewing

Posted by Tom McCormick

According to a story in San Diego Beer News, Atlanta-based SweetWater Brewery is in the process of buying the brand portfolio of the Green Flash Brewing of San Diego. The acquisition includes the Alpine Brewing brands, which Green Flash acquired in 2014.
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News North Carolina’s First Craft Brewery Weeping Radish Sells

Posted by Tom McCormick

North Carolina’s older craft brewery, The Weeping Radish, has sold to Sumit Gupta, CEO of a realty and construction company.
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News Sierra Nevada and St. George Spirits Release First Limited Edition Whisky

Posted by Tom McCormick

Sierra Nevada Brewing Company and St. George Spirits are set to release a limited-edition collaboration malt whiskey distilled from grains and hops. The 45% abv whiskey, named Ruthless, has been eight years in the making and is scheduled to launch on December 18th.
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News Two Florida Breweries Become One as Big Storm Brewing Buys Darwin Brewing

Posted by Tom McCormick

Big Storm Brewing, based in Clearwater, Florida has purchased Darwin Brewing, located in the nearby town of Bradenton.
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News Sprecher Brewing Adds New Sodas – Plans for National Distribution

Posted by Tom McCormick

Wisconsin’s Sprecher Brewing Co. has acquired six soda brands from WIT Beverage Co., which it hopes will help drive its goal of national distribution of its full line of beers, sodas and seltzers.
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News Mikkeller Pulls Beer Can Label After Compliant That It Appeals to Children

Posted by Tom McCormick

A complaint made by London’s Metropolitan Police against the artwork of a Mikkeller beer appealing to children has been upheld, forcing the brand to undertake a redesign.
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News Iconic Bell’s Brewery Sells to Lion

Posted by Tom McCormick

The craft beverage division of Australian food and drink company Lion, which is owned by Japan’s Kirin, has acquired the renowned Bell’s Brewery.
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News Stone Brewing Closes Napa Location Over Rent Dispute

Posted by Tom McCormick

Four years after renovating an 144-year old historic building in downtown Napa, California into a brewery and restaurant, Stone Brewing has closed the business. Approximately 40 employees were laid off.
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News Scofflaw Brewing Forms ‘Shared Services Platform’ Company to Partner with Other Breweries

Posted by Tom McCormick

Scofflaw Brewing Company announced yesterday the creation of a shared services platform called IndieBrew, short for Independent Brewers Union. IndieBrew was created to help independent breweries succeed as market conditions present increasing costs and challenges.
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News Boston Beer to Destroy ‘Millions’ of Cases of Truly Due to Seltzer Slump

Posted by Tom McCormick

Boston Beer will dump millions of cases of Truly after over-predicting the growth of its popular hard seltzer.
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News Ale Asylum Sold to Undisclosed Buyer

Posted by Tom McCormick

The Madison, Wisconsin brewery Ale Asylum has sold to an undisclosed buyer.
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News Boston Beer to Partner with Campari to Roll Out Truly in Australia

Posted by Tom McCormick

How to produce and distribute a popular brand like Truly in a country 10,000 miles away? Find a partner to do it.
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News 4 Noses Brewing Acquires Fellow Coronado Brewer Odd13

Posted by Tom McCormick

4NB Holdings, the parent company 4 Noses Brewing, announced that it has purchased fellow Colorado brewer Odd13 and will take over its taproom and all of its intellectual property.
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News BA Announces Fresh Hop Category GABF Winners

Posted by Tom McCormick

The Brewers Association (BA) has announced the medal winners in the Fresh Hop Beer category for the 2021 Great American Beer Festival competition.
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News Seismic Brewing Takes on Reyes in High Stakes Legal Battle

Posted by Tom McCormick

Seismic Brewing is taking on Reyes Holdings, the largest beer wholesaler in the country and the eighth-largest private company in the United States, in a dispute that could daylight the power and leverage that large distributors hold over craft brewers. Reyes filed suit against Seismic after the Santa Rosa, California brewer refused to move their brands from DBI Distributing to Reyes after Reyes acquired DBI. Seismic then filed a cross complaint against Reyes.
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