Jake Leinenkugel told CBD yesterday that spots that debuted last year in key upper Midwest markets like Chicago, Minnesota, and Chippewa Falls played so well that Michigan and Ohio wanted them…

Goose Island COO Tony Bowker sought to clarify yesterday’s report on the fate of former Goose Island reps.

A Truth Squadder tells CBD that existing Goose Island reps have all been offered positions with the A-B high-end portfolio division…

There’s a decent chance that the next franchise suit you’ll hear about will have to do with Massachusetts-based importers Shelton Brothers.

Perhaps you heard of them most lately as the importer that took on New York with a Commerce Clause argument that effectively ended some tax breaks for in-state brewers (before a recently passed bill effectively reinstated some in the form of rebates)…

Portico opened this summer in Boston. By now, the months-old brewer, helmed by a few young professional males, distributes to 10-plus tap houses around the Boston area.

Remember Sheraton Four Points “Best Brews” craft program, and its 10-location pilot , “Best Brews and BBQ”? If you don’t, it nonetheless just wrapped up testing at 9 stateside hotel locations and 1 in British Columbia…

Lazy Magnolia is Mississippi’s only packaging craft brewery. Founded in 2003, they landed their first distributor, FEB, in the Gulfport area after founder Leslie Henderson told the local paper that’s who they were working with, unbeknownst to the wholesaler.

JT Thompson told CBD the new facility will start at 60,000 barrels capacity, which they’ll grow into “pretty quickly” but with room to build more. It’s scheduled to come online in September 2013. The $18 million project is being financed through a complex package…

Later today the folks at Tenth and Blake will announce two new packages: Crispin Cidre Blanc and Fox Barrel Pomegranate & Pear, non-carbonated offerings in 3-litre boxes, equivalent to four 750ML bottles of wine, as highlighted in the release…

It’s always fun to “see” how the Boston Beer Co. founder dresses his baby on the speech circuit, entire segment included. He started out …

The Saint Louis Brewery just finalized plans set in place at the beginning of the year to to allow employees to purchase a small ownership stake. Last week, 28 employees purchased shares just in excess of a 5% stake in the brewery…

Kansas City’s Boulevard Brewing has just announced the appointment of Mike Magoulas as Chief Executive Officer; he will oversee planning and execution on a day-to-day basis for the 10th largest craft brewer in the nation.

Boston’s Ashley Scibelli told CBD that initial distribution should be much like the release of AO’s initial core styles, which rolled slowly in New England, New York, Maryland and Colorado before hitting the rest of the nation. They would like to roll with the new line nationally, perhaps sometime in 2013…

More on cans, seasonals and cider. Are craft cans poised to “explode?” That is “definitely happening,” said Dan…