Sentences with phrase «us craft brewer»

Austin, TX — Like Georgia, the state beer laws don't do a lot to help craft brewers, but there's still a vibrant market growing in Austin.

Rahr & Sons Brewing Company, a craft brewer based in Fort Worth, produces about 22,000 barrels of beer per year.

Anheuser - Busch has seen increased competition from craft brewers in recent years, but it's still the industry's dominant beer maker.

Jim Koch said attitudes are changing, at least among beer industry insiders, and he believes American craft brewers can bring something new to a market that hasn't seen much innovation in recent years, limited in part by the Reinheitsgebot.

Greg Koch, CEO and co-founder of the tenth - largest craft brewer in the United States, knows a thing or two about making beer.

Craft beer: One of the under - the - radar changes to the 2014 federal budget is aimed at reducing red - tape for craft brewers.

Kirk Cox, executive directors of the Craft Brewers Association of Nova Scotia takes the same view as Dunbar.

When large - scale beer concerns buy craft brewers like Ballast Point and Lagunitas, sales of their ales are no longer deemed «craft» — though they are often still marketed and stocked as a craft brewer.

There is a bit of a turf war brewing between Budweiser brewer Anheuser - Busch InBev (BUD) and a tiny California craft brewer named She Beverage Co., which last year registered «The Queen of Beer» phrase and began to launch sales at retailers and restaurants in April.

Craft brewers must be less than 25 % owned or controlled by a larger brewer, according to the guidelines set by the Brewers Association.

Beyond a price tag that can be worth tens of millions of dollars, a number of craft brewers who've recently sold their businesses list distribution as a key motivator.

«The innovative nature of these craft brewers has driven this market,» said Watson.

Just last week, Milton, Del. - based Dogfish Head, the nation's 13th - largest craft brewer, sold a minority stake to a private equity firm.

It's the sixth - largest craft brewer in the U.S., according to trade group the Brewers Association, and it operates two breweries and is currently building a third to help fuel the brand's growth.

The deal with Heineken also means that Lagunitas will no longer be considered a «craft brewer.»

For craft brewers, it's more like a combat mission.

Boxing Cat Brewery in Shanghai wasn't the city's first craft brewer when a trio of businesspeople — two Americans and one Canadian — opened it in 2008.

There are currently 166 craft brewers in Ontario vying for investors, shelf space and bar taps.

AB InBev has also been investing in craft brands, buying nine U.S. craft brewers over the past six years.

Anchor Brewery is the latest craft brewer to be gobbled up by a global company, in this case Japan's Sapporo Holdings.

Charleston's Holy City has worked with several other craft brewers, including Spartanburg, S.C. - based RJ Rockers, Charlotte's NoDa Brewing and Ashville's Wicked Weed Brewing.

That puts them up against the giants of the beer industry — like Anheuser - Busch and Molson Coors — as well as national craft brewers who are nearly as well known, including Boston Beer Co., maker of Samuel Adams, and privately held Sierra Nevada.

AB InBev, the world's biggest beer brewer, has acquired a significant stake in one of China's best known craft brewers, in a move that shakes up the country's tiny but booming craft beer scene and, the slumping beer giant hopes, its own bottom line.

The craft brewer's co-founder, Greg Koch, said in a video that the light beer brand is trying to «co-op our brand and our good name.»

On Thursday, it announced it acquired a «significant stake» in Boxing Cat Brewery, one of China's best known craft brewers.

The deal comes just two days after Dutch brewing giant Heineken announced it would buy a 50 % stake in Lagunitas, a leading U.S. craft brewer.

Despite — or maybe because of — this philosophy, Lagunitas has grown into the sixth largest craft brewer in the country.

The move comes as both companies have lost market share to craft brewers.

«It created a little bit of a stir as some craft brewers reached out to us.

«When you position yourself as a small craft brewer, that leaves a lot of interest with people.

Craft brewers accounted for 11 percent of U.S. beer production volume in 2014, up from 5 percent in 2010, according to data from the U.S. Brewers Association.

Craft brewers adhere to tradition.

Craft brewers also grew annual sales to $ 19.6 billion last year, a 22 percent increase between 2013 and 2014.

The first brewery to operate inside the District of Columbia since 1956, DC Brau has won awards from the Great American Beer Festival, the Beverage Testing Institute, and the Brewer's Association Craft Brewers Conference.

And already, craft brewers produce one out of every 10 beers sold in America.

At present, craft brewers employ an estimated 115,469 full - time and part - time workers — a drop in the bucket of the overall industry.

Constellation Brands, which already produces Mexican beers Corona and Modelo, has agreed to pay almost $ 1 billion to buy California craft brewer Ballast Point.

Constellation Brands paid almost $ 1 billion for craft brewer Ballast Point late in 2015 and spent $ 160 million last year for High West Distillery.

By the late»80s, American craft brewers began to soar, and except for a brief moment of oversaturation in 1993, they never stopped.

Craft brewers jumped on the canned - beer bandwagon a few years back, and now their counterparts in the wine industry are fully on board as well.

Hundreds of craft brewers are putting to put their beer in cans for the first time, making it easier to lug around than bottled brews while hiking or spending time outdoors.

«Craft brewers themselves are continuing to innovate with new beers, new beers styles,» Gatza said.

If I'm a craft brewer, I'll get a tiny lift, but the majority of the incremental demand goes to the category leader.

Small, craft brewers have increased their U.S. revenue share from 6 percent in 2006 to 21 percent in 2015, despite the top two beer companies owning more than 70 percent of the market.

Passion for making beer keeps craft brewers toiling away longer than most entrepreneurs.

The U.S. spirits industry is finally seeing a «craft» movement take hold across bars and retail outlets in a way that could mirror the success craft brewers have had in recent years.

Last year, craft brewers grabbed a 21 % share of the U.S. market by dollar value.

The strong sales in the U.S. bode well for big industry players like Diageo (deo), Pernod Ricard (pdrdy), and Brown - Forman (bfb), as well as the emerging, fast - growing craft spirits industry that is mirroring the success craft brewers had in the beer world.

O'Hara's Irish Stout: Made by one of Ireland's first craft brewers, this is an incredibly smooth, easy - drinking stout.

Those states were also popular destinations for craft brewers.