Larry said the branding will be “U.P. centric.”

Boston Lager and Summer Ale cans will start hitting retail this week, on the early end of conservative predictions that they’d hit in an early “calendar summer” timeframe at best.

“We’ve been in business 25 years, and still feel there’s a lot of value in staying within 500 miles of Great Lakes Brewing,” c0-founder Pat Conway told CBD. “About 65% of the U.S. population is within a day’s drive of our brewery.”

“Though admittedly bittersweet, after 16 years as a member of Team Stone, I will be stepping down from my position as Senior Vice President of Sales to pursue interests outside of the craft beer industry,” Arlan wrote.

Washington and Texas brewers get closer to favorable legislation.

Yesterday sales chief Earl Kight announced a location: they inked a deal Friday in San Diego’s Little Italy. Ballast will start the buildout and installation of a 5-barrel brew house and tasting bar “ASAP.”

The city of Escanaba, Michigan, will consider a land purchase request from Bell’s Larry Bell this Thursday, per local City Council special meeting agenda.

Deschutes has just announced having made the first contribution to a new Employee Stock Ownership Program trust…

Expect to hear more from Southern Tier, the Lakewood, NY brewer who just crashed the Top 50 craft breweries list for the first time and landed at No. 37…

Here’s something that’s bringing beer sides together, at least in Washington state: The rally against extending the “temporary” beer tax…

Expect to hear more about the Bronx brewery. After two years of seeding the New York City area with their signature Bronx Pale Ale on draft only, they’re launching 16 oz. cans in Eastern New York state…

SweetWater will fill out the Southeast Florida corridor with Gold Coast, down through the Keys, to close out their Florida footprint…

That conversation being between the Brewers Association’s Charlie Papazian and Beer Institute’s Joe McClain, that is…

In January we reported on the hoopla surrounding some less-defined parts of New York’s Small Brewer Amendment to the New York bev alc law, which supposedly grants brewers less than 300,000 barrels production…

Planning, pressure, and split-second decisions. That’s what defines the existence of the many small and regional craft brewers growing at breakneck speed…