By Staff (Press Release) BOULDER, CO—Vying for attention in the international arena, 23 American craft breweries, all members of the Brewers Association’s Export Development Program, won 36 awards in 22 different categories at European Beer Star, one of the most respected and recognized beer competitions ...
By Staff (Press Release) BOSTON—Samuel Adams is partnering with The Greg Hill Foundation to host a Celebrity Stein Hoist at its annual Octoberfest event on Friday, Sept. 13 at the Park Plaza Castle. Former players from the Boston Red Sox, Bruins, Celtics ...
By Tom Acitelli Chief Oshkosh Red Lager was about to go national. It had found a distribution and marketing partner, and was ready to bust out of Wisconsin. Jeff Fulbright, the founder and president of the brewing company behind Chief Oshkosh, Mid-Coast Brewing, ...
By Brian Yaeger There are conferences throughout the year that diehard beer fans would love to attend to rub elbows with those who have become celebrities in the industry. But the Craft Brewers Conference is reserved for industry members only. And the Great ...
By Heather Vandenengel It did not take long for the New England beer community to join together and rally support for victims, friends, families and the Boston community after the bombings at the finish line of the Boston Marathon on ...
By Tom Acitelli One day in August, 1965, a 27-year-old former graduate student in Japanese studies at Stanford walked into his favorite bar, the Old Spaghetti Factory in San Francisco’s trendy North Beach neighborhood. He ordered his usual: an Anchor Steam. The bar’s ...
By Greg Barbera In a West Coast vs. East Coast legal battle, Boston Beer Co. is suing craft beer rival Anchor Brewing Co. over a poached employee....
By Greg Kitsock You might call them craft beer’s nuclear club. We’re talking about breweries that have pushed the alcohol content of beer past 20 percent by volume, through the process of fermentation alone....
By Julie Johnson Given that Boston Beer brews most of its beer at facilities elsewhere, what goes on at the Jamaica Plain site in Boston? We have a couple production breweries [Cincinnati and Lehigh Valley, PA], but we still think that the Boston ...
By Greg Kitsock So many trends—from Starbucks coffee to grunge music to gourmet pizza with capers and duck sausage—started on the West Coast that it’s enough to give some East Coast residents an inferiority complex....