Update to Sierra Nevada Beer Camp Across America 2016

Last September I wrote about Sierra Nevada Brewing Company announcing that Beer Camp Across America, the largest celebration of craft beer, is coming back in 2016!  You can read that article by clicking here. I also promised to keep my readers updated with new information and here is the latest. Check out Sierra Nevada’s new…

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Jim Stitt – Meet the Artist Behind Anchor Brewing’s Labels

Jim Stitt is an Anchor Brewing Company legend. His yearly Anchor Christmas Ale tree drawing has become world-renowned. His labels are hand drawn and every year he draws a different tree for the Anchor Christmas Ale label. Meet the man who has been responsible for designing nearly every beer label for Anchor since the 1970s….

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SweetWater Brewing Co. Expanding Footprint West

SweetWater Brewing Co. Press Release Atlanta, GA (5 Nov 2015) – SweetWater Brewing Co. announced that it has taken the first tangible step toward opening a second brewery, and is exploring options for locations in Western U.S. states, and considering a third location in the Central U.S.   The South’s largest brewery purchased equipment from Pyramid…

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The Can Supply for Craft Beers May Be in Trouble

A dwindling can supply for craft beers may spell trouble for craft brewers and craft beer lovers. There are three major can producers for beer – Rexam, Ball, and Crown Holdings. Earlier this year, Rexam and Ball announced plans to merge. In an article by Forbes Magazine, there is now some indication that can supplies…

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Belgian Craft Beer Bubbles Despite Brewer Mega-Merger

Belgian Craft Brewers produce artisan ales and lagers resulting in a booming business in Belgium. To understand why the world’s biggest brewer, the Belgian giant AB InBev, is tying up with rival SAB Miller look no further than a modest craft brewery tucked away in a working class Brussels district – Brasserie de la Senne….

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Virginia is for Craft Beer Lovers and is Raising Money to Prove It

Virginia is for craft beer lovers and is raising money to prove it — $23 million of it. Richmond will sell bonds next week to build a brewery for Escondido, California-based Stone Brewing Co., the ninth-largest U.S. craft-beer maker, on property that’s been vacant for four decades. Stone will pay the 218,000-person city to lease the…

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