Category: CBD and THC Drinks
Expert Topic Adding Pizazz to Can Ends
It would be difficult to gauge how much thought end users think about can tops. Even with the proliferation over the last decade of cans in the craft beer space, not many drinkers give thought to how a can opens, so long as it opens properly.For brewers, there are options for these can ends that are not only functional but can add a certain aesthetic to a beer.
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Expert Topic The Future of Fruit Beers
Chris Hodge has seen a lot of change in the 30 years he has worked in and around the American craft beer industry. Whether in his roles working for distributors and importers or as the CEO of Worthy Brewing, Hodge has seen trends come and go. After seven years in his role as Director of Sales for Oregon Fruit Products (OFP), he has watched craft beer’s relationship with fruit evolve.
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Expert Topic Brewers are Innovating in New Beverage Spaces
There was a period of time, and it wasn’t too long ago, when craft brewers were urging other brewers to stay in the beer lane. Focus on the beer, don’t think about flavored malt beverages, or other liquids, some industry leaders said. Be beer manufactures, stick to the mission, they urged.
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News Brewery Creates First Commercial Beer Using All Unmalted Barley
Cool Cousin Brewing in New York had made a beer entirely from unmalted barley, instead creating wort by adding an exogenous enzyme cocktail in the mash. The process is ostensibly to save water and carbon dioxide in the brewing process.
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Expert Topic Hop Water: The Next Wave of NA
The wedding was mid-day, held outside, the sun was blaring, and I had a long drive home ahead of me. While those staying locally enjoyed round after round of craft lager and IPA, I sipped my Victory Pils before switching over to review the thoughtful non-alcoholic options available to guests. Among the sodas and sparkling seltzers, one option caught my eye and captured my attention for the next few hours: Lagunitas’ Hoppy Refresher.
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News Mergers Cross Sectors as Bayou City Hemp Buys 8th Wonder Brewing
Merger Mania isn’t just about craft-on-craft acquisitions; it has included all sectors of the craft beverage industry pairing up to seek greater efficiencies. That now includes the cannabis industry as Bayou City Hemp Company announced that it has purchased 8th Wonder Brewery and Distillery.
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News Six Craft Brewery Equipment Suppliers Merge into Lotus Beverage Alliance
Six U.S. craft beverage equipment suppliers have merged in a $100 million deal to create Lotus Beverage Alliance. The six merged companies are Alpha Brewing Operations, GW Kent, Twin Monkeys, Stout Tanks and Kettles, Brewmation and Automated Extractions.
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Keith Villa on CBD and THC in Drinks: Now and in the Future
The buzz around CBD and THC infused drinks has steadily grown in recent years, from faint whispers to celebratory screams. Once a pipe dream for cannabis enthusiasts, spiked seltzers and other beverages are increasingly big business. And near the center of the action is an unlikely advocate, the creator of the famous Blue Moon Belgian White.
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News After 30 Years Leading ABInBev, Carlos Brito Looks Back – and Ahead
Carlos Brito, who stepped down as CEO from Anheuser-Busch InBev last week, made a major impact on the global beer industry by transforming ABInBev into the world’s largest brewing company through a series of aggressive deals and acquisitions.
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News Southern Glazer to Distribute Cannabis Drink from Canopy
Canopy Growth Corporation has signed up Southern Glazers as their wholesaler for their CBD-infused beverage line, Qautreau. The move is another indication that the alcohol distribution tier is willing and ready to add cannabis-related beverages to their portfolios.
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News Hong Kong Brewery Brews up CBD Beer
The use of CBD in any food or drink product, including alcohol, is illegal in the U.S. And even though the potential health benefits of CBD are getting more recognition these days, in most Asian countries it is still seen as a drug and somewhat taboo. But it is legal. And a new start-up, is not brewing and marketing a CBD-infused beer.
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News Busy Week at Constellation: Going to Pot, Layoffs and a Brewpub
An interesting week at Constellation as various industry sources reported the company has laid off 60 employees in their craft division while at the same time investing $4 billion (billion with a “B”) in the cannabis company Canopy Growth Corporation.
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News Trump to Support Ending Federal Ban on Cannabis?
The L.A. Times has reported that President Trump would support a congressional effort to remove the federal government’s ban on cannabis. Ending enforcement against cannabis by the Justice Department would likely stimulate a dramatic increase in the cannabis industry, and could remove the TTB’s ban on CBD oils, hemp and potentially even THC in beer.
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News A Peek Ahead: The Future of Cannabis and the Beer Industry
Posted by Tom McCormick
The recent proposal in Congress to decriminalize cannabis is the latest step forward in legalizing the drug nationally. Even if Congress doesn’t pass the current legislation, it is only a matter of time before it does. Eighteen states currently allow recreational cannabis.
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