The website (ncbeerjobs.com) has caused a stir in North Carolina’s brewing community this week. The site urges visitors to sign a petition that would save the “livelihood of 1000’s of North Carolina workers.” What’s threatening these jobs, according to the site, are two House Bills that would benefit North Carolina’s small brewers.

This morning Boston confirmed officially a new home for Angry Orchard research and development at a historic, 60-acre apple orchard in the New York Hudson Valley.

“How Do You Truly Know How Your Beer is Doing?” was a timely Craft Brewers Conference session. Epic Brewing Co.’s Dave Cole, Keen Strategy founder Greg Dolan and First Beverage VP of craft’s J.B. Shireman shared their own rules for keeping relevant in outside markets today.

CBA announced the appointment of Joe Vanderstelt as Chief Financial Officer yesterday. He’ll join the company effective April 27.

One of CBC’s most timely panels came via Friday afternoon’s exit strategies primer. A bevy of advisors to craft transition planning made a few things clear: Sellers should explore options well before an exit, they’ll pay a pretty penny to do that right, and frothy valuations should be coming down soon.

We briefly touched on Brewers Association director Paul Gatza’s concern surrounding FDA menu labeling rules earlier in the week. But the issue may warrant more attention as Paul labeled it as a

It used to be commonplace for breweries to have a flagship brand. But the identification of flagships has gotten fairly blurry in today’s industry. We can still point to established breweries like Sierra Nevada and detect their workhorse, Pale Ale. But it’s not as easy to pinpoint on another established brewery like Deschutes. Is their flagship Black Butte Porter or their Mirror Pond Ale? And for the nascent brewers in craft like Solemn Oath Brewing, flagships are non-existent.

Brewers Association president Charlie Papazian opened this year’s Craft Brewers Conference with a couple stats, and a point to make about definitions.

Widmer Brothers Brewing will undergo its sixth major brewery expansion in Portland since it was founded in 1984, CBD has learned. The latest expansion will increase annual production capacity of Oregon’s largest brewery by 200,000 barrels, taking it to 750,000 barrels.

According to founder and head brewmaster Keith Villa, MillerCoors’s Blue Moon Brewing Co. is building a new pilot brewery, roughly 20 years after its founding. It’s slated to open some time next year.

We continue yesterday’s Rogue coverage with chief Brett Joyce’s industry outlook and more. For a state of the union piece, it bears mentioning…

Despite the cold, wet January and February that pummeled the East Coast in the wee months of 2015, the West Coast had balmy conditions. That likely helped Oregon’s Rogue Ales & Spirits achieve mid-high teens growth through the first two months.

2013 was a notable legislative session for Texas’s beer industry, one that saw the coming together of distributors and craft brewers to help pass five bills for the industry. But that camaraderie seems to have diminished during this year’s legislative session with distributors and craft brewers seemingly in opposite corners.

Abita Brewing Company is the founding brewery partner with Enjoy Beer, Harpoon vet Rich Doyle’s new venture created to provide resources on a national scale to a select group of top independent U.S. craft brewers, per announcement. Its investors include FFL, a private investment firm.

Back in September, Sierra Nevada set a goal to grow 30% in Q1. Well Q1 results are in to their distributors, and wouldn’t you know it — the brewer achieved 30% growth on the dot in both sales depletions and IRI Total US Food results.