Modern Times Beer is set to celebrate its three-year anniversary this July, but you wouldn’t know it at first glance. The San Diego-based brewery founded by former Stone Brewing employee, Jacob McKean, is running, while most breweries a few years in are still learning to balance upright.

Modern Times Beer is set to celebrate its three-year anniversary this July, but you wouldn’t know it at first glance. The San Diego-based brewery founded by former Stone Brewing employee, Jacob McKean, is running, while most breweries a few years in are still learning to balance upright.

Last year Sierra Nevada had a blockbuster Q1, with big new launches like Hop Hunter. This year, the big bet is slightly different for the famous Pale Ale brewer: Otra Vez, a low ABV, slightly tart beer with a Spanish name. We caught up with sales and marketing chief Joe Whitney to hear about their progress and plans to date.

The preliminary numbers for craft’s 2015 growth are in. The segment now owns 12% of the overall U.S. beer market, according to the Brewers Association, which released the figures earlier today.

The second half of our interview with Deschutes chief Gary Fish concerns the state of the union, a fitting topic amid the flurry of consolidation and regulation (we remember when Q1 used to start off slowly) afoot. Beyond that, Gary is terming out as Brewers Association board chair. Times a-changing all around.

Deschutes is among the oldest and biggest craft breweries in the nation. But they’ve started 2016 assertively. They’re not only nearing a big announcement on location of their long-anticipated East Coast brewery, they’re also gaining dollar share in IRI multi-outlet and convenience YTD, an enviable position among fellow craft that large.

Indiana’s very own Sun King Brewing Co. will finally have a statewide footprint.

Austin, Texas, has been expecting two separate craft outfits to commence operations for sometime now. The first was the return of a local legend’s name, Celis; the other was the expected second home of Detroit’s Atwater Brewery. Well, it turns out they’re coming to the state’s capital in a package deal of sorts.

We knew BrewDog wanted to make a splash in the U.S. beer business with the announcement of a 100,000-square-foot facility in Canal Winchester, Ohio. But a splash appears to be a massive understatement, according to its recent SEC filings.

Like a lot of craft brewers, Florida’s 60,000-barrel Cigar City Brewing has reached the point where they’re staring “next-level challenges” in the face. And in order to clear those hurdles, founder Joey Redner said, “we needed to develop next-level skills and resources to meet them.”

After the Craft Brewers Guild signed over a $2.6 million check to avoid an unprecedented 90-day suspension handed down by the Massachusetts Alcoholic Beverage Control Commission for their involvement in pay-to-play activity, it appeared to be a wrap for those two parties.

Whew, Bell’s Brewery is on a roll. The Comstock-based brewer announced its intent to distribute to Arkansas, Louisiana and Mississippi last year and they made good on that promise revealing wholesale partners for each of those territories in the last month.

Wicked Weed Brewing is about to have as many production facilities as it has years in existence – four.

New Belgium Brewing has appointed Ruairi Twomey to its Executive Leadership Team as vice president of marketing, effective March 14th, 2016.

Back in 2014, Brew Hub announced that their second facility would be built in Chesterfield, Missouri, but details on the project have been slim since then. Over the weekend we learned that Brew Hub has selected a site for the $20 million facility in Chesterfield