A bi-weekly, non-comprehensive roundup
of news of beer and other things.
Weeks 36/37
30 August - 12 September 2015
- 11 September 2015
After Heineken/Lagunitas, why more large foreign breweries will be buying American 'craft' breweries.
—Via Craft Brewing Business. - 11 September 2015
Greg Koch, co-founder of Stone Brewing, to resign from position as CEO, and accept new role as Executive Chairman.
—Via Craft Beer.com. - 10 September 2015
Another 'craft' brewery acquired by a much larger brewery. MillerCoors purchases a majority interest in two-year-old San Diego, California, brewery, Saint Archer Brewing Company.
—Via Brookston Beer Bulletin. - 9 September 2015
Beer is "one of few human practices that unites us through time and space. [...] But beer companies? They are organs of commerce, however wonderful the brewers and publicans they employ may be."
—Via Jeff Alworth, at All About Beer. - 9 September 2015
New York's farm-brewery law requires a farm-brewery to brew its beers with at least 20% New York-grown hops, annually. In 2024, the requirement jumps to 90%.
—Via CBS News. - 8 September 2015
The 6th largest 'craft' brewery in the U.S., California-based, Lagunitas, sells a 50% stake to international brewing company, Heineken.
—Via Santa Rosa Press-Democrat. - 8 September 2015
Tony Magee, owner of 'craft' brewery Lagunitas, declares his company to be a peer of international brewing giant, Heineken.
—Via YFGF. - 7 September 2015
Statistics on Labor Day.
- U.S. beer distributors generate 131,000 jobs.
—Via Craft Brewing Business. - U.S. breweries employ 47,528 workers and brewers.
—Via Beer Institute.
- U.S. beer distributors generate 131,000 jobs.
Over seven-thousand refugees fleeing war in Syria arrive in Austria, after Hungary yields in a days-long campaign to turn them back.
—Via Washington Post.
- The impact of beer (and 'craft' beer) in Washington, D.C., in 2014/2015.
—Via (U.S.) Brewers Association. - The impact of beer (and 'craft' beer) in Maryland, in 2014/2015.
—Via (U.S.) Brewers Association. - The impact of beer (and 'craft' beer) in Virginia, in 2014/2015.
—Via YFGF.
The volume of beer sold directly in brewery taprooms is up 46.7% over the same period last year: from 287,965 to 422,561 barrels.
—Via Bryan D. Roth, at This Is Why I'm Drunk.
In 1985, there were 188 trademark applications for beer filed in the U.S. Last year, there were more than 4,600 filed.
—Via Washington City Paper.
President Barack Obama re-renames Mount McKinley — the 20,237-foot mountain in Alaska and the tallest in North America — as Denali, as it was originally known by Alaska Natives before it was renamed to honor President William McKinley.
—Via USA Today.
Oregon's Deschutes Brewing eyeing Charlottesville, Virginia, for a possible East Coast brewery.
—Via Brewbound.
Hoppy beers. When aging a beer is not a good thing.
—Via Fritz Hahn, at Washington Post.
"Failure rates for new craft breweries are near zero. Barriers to entry are nonexistent. Startup costs are low. Sales start immediately. Margins can be fat. But the price of success is brutally hard work, long hours, and low pay."
—Via Entrepreneur.
When breweries produce beers with ingredients and processes other than the 'standard' water, malt, hops, and yeast, the U.S. government's Alcohol and Tobacco Tax and Trade Bureau (TTB) requires approval of the formula. In 2014, the TTB relaxed those standards just a bit. Certain processes —such as aging beer in barrels containing NO DISCERNIBLE QUANTITY of wine or distilled spirits— and certain fruits and spices were exempted.
—Via Brewery Law, at YFGF.
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