Blogs
- Share Bridgeport Announces Major Market Expansion
- BridgePort Brewing Company announced today a significant market expansion, adding nine new states. By mid-April, BridgePort India Pale Ale, BridgePort ESB, and BridgePort Black Strap Stout will be available in Alabama, Georgia, Kansas, Minnesota, Missouri, North Carolina, Oklahoma, Tennessee and Te ...
- Share Corona Breaks AllTime Record for Imports in 2004
- Corona Extra posted record sales in 2004 with a projected 97 million cases of depletions in the U.S. This sales volume is a first for any imported beer. Corona will be on track to surpass the 100-million case mark in 2005. The Mexican beer brand has showed substantial growth in the U.S. imported-be ...
- Share Craft Beer Industry Loses Longtime Brewer
- Craft brewer Adam Kercheval died last Wednesday after a serious automobile accident two days earlier. A Wake was held in his memory yesterday at the Rose and Raindrop in Portland. Adam was a longtime brewer at Alameda Brewhouse and Hair of the Dog, before moving to Hawaii a couple of years ago. He ...
- Share Exports lift German brewers
- German beer sales climbed in 2004, halting a five-year slide that worsened in 2003 when the country introduced a complex system of deposits on cans and bottles. About 10.6 billion liters (2.8 billion gallons) of beer were sold in Germany in 2004, up 0.2% from 2003, with growing exports compensating ...
- Share 195 Million Bottles of Beer on the Wall
- Oregon’s beer production grew at a rate of nearly 10 percent in 2004, as the state’s craft brewers produced the equivalent of more than 195 million bottles of beer and helped pump more than $2.24 billion into the state’s economy. Total beer production for the state was approximat ...
- Share Boulevard Breaks Ground on 20 Million Expansion
- Boulevard Brewing announced this week that they will break ground for a new $20 million expansion. The three-story, 70,000 square foot facility will be connected via an elevated walkway to the company’s original Brewhouse , and will house a new 150 bbl. brewery, packaging equipment, administ ...
- Share Airline bumps Bud Light
- Miller Lite will become the exclusive light beer served aboard all Northwest Airlines and Northwest Airlink-operated flights worldwide, replacing Bud Light. A Northwest spokesman said the airline made the switch because of passenger demand in Milwaukee and Minneapolis, two of Northwest’s larg ...
- Share Kalamazoo Brewing Begins Expansion
- Brewery will triple in size as company nears 20th anniversary With annual sales in excess of $10 million, Larry Bell is pouring about $1.1 million back into his Kalamazoo Brewing Co. Bell said work on a 10,000-square-foot addition to the 31,000-square-foot building which serves as the company ...
- Share BA to Host Beer Garden at Wholesalers Conference
- Craft brewers invited to pour better beer at NBWA Las Vegas trade show The Brewers Association announced today that they will be organizing a craft beer garden at the annual National Beer Wholesalers Association’s (NBWA) conference in Las Vegas this September. The garden had been initiate ...
- Share Fad and Fizzle
- Investment bank, Merrill Lynch has stated in a recent analysis that the strong growth in the spirits market has been built on short-terms fashions and trends rather than a longer term structural shift in demand. Spirits have seen strong growth in recent years, especially among young drinkers, and t ...
