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I love craft beer!
Kind of old guard brews in this list, but maybe that's to be expected for a Hall of Fame. Perhaps hazy needs a few more years to prove it's not a fad! There are lots of great beers in NorCal - check out the San Fran Chronicle's story.
I'm not permitted a dog in my building, so I thought an emotional support beer would be more appropriate. It helps alleviate my anxiety and is a cost effective way to manage stress.
-- Tony Forder, Ale Street News
Pabst Brewing Co. unveiled both the new identity of the taproom and Seabird IPA, the first beer its new Captain Pabst brand. Both names are an homage to the brewery’s beer baron namesake, Frederick Pabst. Before he married into the Best brewing family and eventually took over the brewery, Pabst was a young German immigrant making his way in Milwaukee in the 1850s. He latched onto the steamship trade and became a captain on Lake Michigan by his early 20s.
-- Chris Drosner, Milwaukee Magazine
MillerCoors' parent company announced Monday that it will cease production at its Irwindale brewery located along the 210 Freeway by September, and that it has signed a deal that gives Pabst Brewing Co. the option to buy the facility.
-- Kristina Bravo and Wendy Burch, KTLA
Boulder Beer announced on Monday that it will close its Boulder brewpub on Jan. 18 in order to sell the property...The company announced back in October that it would downsize, discontinue national distribution and only sell its beers out of that Boulder taproom.
-- Josie Sexton, Denver Post
October: Boulder Beer to go taproom-only
Growers in the world's top producer just reaped another record crop, with output rising 5% to 112 million pounds (51,000 tons) this year, according to the annual National Hop Report.
-- Agnieszka de Sousa, Bloomberg
The North Carolina ABC Commission has previously denied Cloudburst's Kissing Cousins IPA and Wasatch's Polygamy Porter. Evidently, pixelated reindeer sex is also off limits!
For Sycamore Brewing, a provocative holiday beer label redesign started in good fun. Thursday morning, along came the grinch.
-- Katie Peralta, Charlotte Agenda
Kings & Convicts Brewing Co., a tiny Illinois firm, on Tuesday announced an agreement to buy Ballast Point from New York-based Constellations Brands, Inc. Terms of the sale were not disclosed, but includes Ballast Point’s four California brewpubs - at the main brewery in Miramar; Little Italy; Anaheim’s Downtown Disney; and Long Beach - plus one in Chicago.
-- Peter Rowe, San Diego Union-Tribune
After nearly 30 years as one of Fort Collins' locally owned, homegrown breweries, New Belgium Brewing Co. is being sold to a global craft beverage company with ties to Australia, New Zealand and Japan.
-- Erin Udell, Fort Collins Coloradoan
Congrats to the 300+ New Belgium employees who own the company! They still have to vote on the buyout, but I'm sure that Lion has taken that vote into consideration, and made them a sweet offer.
-- Scrib
The battlefield is Shiner, the home of Shiner Bock, where signs at a recent music festival blared, rather indiscreetly, "There’s a new Bock in town." Billboards around the tiny town (pop. 2,171) also showed up to promote Crawford Bock, a beer launched by Karbach Brewing, a once-independent Houston brewer now owned by Anheuser-Busch InBev, or ABInBev.
-- Erin Douglas, Houson Chronicle