Craft is cruising the latest 13 weeks to November 30 in IRI. Dollar sales are up 20.8% YTD, and 18.2% for 13-weeks in multi-outlet and convenience. Craft is a little softer in the food channel up 18.6% YTD and 16.3% for the 13 weeks.

Continuing our coverage of Lagunitas’s 2014 from Monday: A lot of people are curious as to the whereabouts of their next brewery (chief Tony Magee has promised at least one more).

As they grow, craft brewers selling their distribution rights seems to be an increasing trend nationwide. The more the practice grows, the more distribs seem to speak out against it, at least on the talking circuit (though that doesn’t stop many from buying the hot brands).

Lagunitas has captured headlines the last couple years, and 2014 was no different. It has something to do with rampant flagship growth (Lagunitas IPA has been up at least 50% in IRI for as long as we can remember), ambitious plant plans and off-kilter culture.

It’s been a little over a year since Boulevard founder John McDonald let Duvel Moortgat take over his baby. That’s just long enough, apparently, for him to be candid about how the Duvel acquisition went down. “I compulsively got in the beer business and compulsively got out of the beer business,” he told the Brewbound San Diego Session audience yesterday.

It won’t come as a shock to many readers that Firestone Walker, with its recent 40% growth trend, has been among those many craft brewers rumored to be in significant talks regarding succession plans.

Today, new Tenth and Blake chief Scott Whitley and VP sales David Reny sent out a message to distributor partners. “My vision for Tenth and Blake is to be the top supplier and fastest-growing company in the Craft segment,” wrote the new brass.

In what’s possibly the first strategic partnership between two publicly traded craft brewing companies, Craft Brew Alliance has just announced it’s signed a letter of intent to form a “strategic partnership” with Boone, North Carolina based Appalachian Mountain Brewery.

San Marcos, California-based Port Brewing and The Lost Abbey are announcing a third brand family for 2015: The Hop Concept Brewing. Debuting under the new line will be The Hop Freshener Series, which will consist of four quarterly rotating IPAs.

The FDA has issued final rules “requiring that calories be listed on certain menus in chain restaurants and other places selling restaurant-type food and on certain vending machines,” per agency website. Rules take effect in one year for restaurant retail types.

Lots more has rolled in on yesterday’s coverage of Arizona microbrewers’ fight to produce more than 40,000 barrels while maintaining their pubs.

Since 2009, Arizona has implemented its own ceiling of 40,000 barrels to define craft. Producers under this limit are allowed to self-distribute up to 3,000 barrels annually, on top of direct sales at their own restaurants.

We caught up with Alan Newman on the several balls he’s juggling across the country via the Alchemy & Science portfolio. Traveler Beer Co. has some news: It’ll go national around Feb. 1, utilizing Boston Beer’s sales force and distributors.

Earlier this year we reported on the undertaking by various partners to transform the Tumwater Brewery complex into a brewing/distilling center, [see CBD 05-15-2014 ]. Recall, the complex has been inoperative for the past 11 years but it seems it may finally breathe life again now that a “potential buyer” has emerged, per report by The Olympian.

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