Highland Brewing Co. of Asheville, NC, is partnering with the Asheville Symphony Orchestra on a beer for its 2015 Amadeus Festival, honoring the composer Mozart. The beer, a Vienna lager appropriately called Wolfgang 1756, will be released in 22-oz bottles in March, brewery founder and president Oscar Wong told the Asheville Citizen-Times. A portion of... View Article
In a decision that has rattled the U.K. pub industry, U.K. lawmakers voted in November to end the 400-year-old “beer tie” rule that locked pubs rented from large pub groups or breweries into buying beer exclusively from them. Almost half of Britain’s 50,000 pubs are “tied houses,” a deal in which the brewery or pub... View Article
Alpine Beer Co., a 15-year-old brewery in Alpine, CA, known for its sought-after IPAs like Duet and Exponential Happiness, was acquired by San Diego’s Green Flash Brewing Co. in early November. In the new arrangement, each company will remain independently operated and maintain its distinct brand and culture. Alpine’s Pat McIlhenney will remain president and... View Article
The Brewers Association (BA) wants to bring beer—properly served and presented—to the table with a new “definitive beer and food course for culinary institutions, food establishments, beverage students and beer educators.” “Culinary and hospitality education has long overlooked the intrinsic value that craft beer can provide in relation to food,” says chef BA culinary consultant... View Article
Renowned for his traditional lambic production at Brasserie Cantillon in Brussels, Belgium, Jean Van Roy found inspiration during a blind wine tasting a few years ago, prompting him to take his brewing a few thousand years further back in time. Some of the Italian wines he sampled had been matured in amphorae, ceramic fermentation vessels... View Article
Shaker pints, move aside. Michigan’s Bell’s Brewery and Austrian glassware manufacturer Spiegelau recently launched the American Wheat-Witbier Glass. The glass, designed to elevate the experience of drinking American wheat ales , features a voluminous bowl that “harnesses and retains the delicate aromas” of wheat beer and an open-bottom glass base that “drives beer and aromatic... View Article
North Dakota State University (NDSU) is undertaking a new malting rye research project. The study will analyze different varieties of rye to determine the best properties for malting, growing and brewing. Researchers will examine rye genotypes and environmental factors. The department of plant sciences is asking growers to send 1-pound samples to the NDSU cereal... View Article
Anheuser-Busch InBev added a new brewery to its portfolio in October, when it purchased the Bend, Oregon-based 10 Barrel Brewing. 10 Barrel’s co-founding partners, Chris Cox, Jeremy Cox and Garrett Wales, announced the sale via a video released on social media, in which they assured drinkers that the beer would not change, the brew team,... View Article
A new beer has found its way to the putting green with the launch of GolfBeer Brewing Co. Founded by three professional golfers, Freddie Jacobson, Keegan Bradley and Graeme McDowell, GolfBeer’s starting lineup consists of Freddie Jacobson’s Scandinavian Style Blonde Ale, a light ale brewed with crystal malt and European hops; Keegan Bradley’s New England... View Article
