Sentences with phrase «many craft breweries»

Add the incursions by craft breweries, which made national brands seem hopelessly dull to many, and the return of hard liquor — beer dropped from 56 % of alcohol consumed in 1999 to 48 % in 2014 — and it made for a depressing picture for mainstream giants like Miller Lite.

• Runnymede Investments acquired Smuttynose Brewing Company, an Exeter, N.H. - based craft brewery, from The Provident Bank.

Unlike other American craft breweries, Brooklyn Brewery sells a substantial portion of its beer overseas.

This summer, Stone Brewing announced it will spend more than $ 25 million to turn a Berlin gasworks complex into the first American craft brewery on the continent.

In the US, alcohol producers are not allowed to sell directly to consumers, which means that distributors become the key to craft breweries» success.

With 40 craft breweries and more than 50 in the metro area, Portland, Ore., has more craft breweries than any other city in the world.

«In the last two years, we've seen one by one, several strategic moves by the large global brewers to do mergers and acquisitions of smaller craft breweries in a more fast - paced manner than in the past,» says Julia Herz, craft beer program director for The Brewers Association.

He sees potential in a cooperative model that would enable craft breweries to work together for greater purchase power to buy hops and other key ingredients, as well as giving them better negotiating position for distribution.

There are more than 2,700 craft breweries operating in the U.S., the highest total since the 1880s.

Pierre died in 2011, but Christine is in the process of establishing a craft brewery business in Austin.

Craft breweries have a few things working in their favor, perhaps the most important of which is a customer base that's financially well off.

The Brewers Association, which released these figures on Wednesday, has reported steady growth mostly due to the expansion of craft breweries as the localized beer movement has taken off.

Though much of the success of craft breweries (which are technically defined as those that make less than 6 million barrels per year) and microbreweries (which make less than 15,000 barrels) can be credited to shifts in public taste, those in the industry say they've learned a few truths along the way that have aided in their success.

Despite a slowdown in traditional beer production, craft breweries are experiencing almost a 10 percent increase because of shifting consumer tastes.

«They called us out specifically in a mocking tone to show just how ridiculous craft breweries were, and they called out a specific beer we made.»

Craft breweries have become attractive investment targets for private - equity firms.

Millennials would rather support small, local brewers, even if they have to spend a little more money, according to Jason Wilson, founder of Alabama - based craft brewery Back Forty Beer Company, which grew annual revenue to $ 2.2 million in 2014 from $ 52,000 in 2010.

Yet there are about a dozen craft breweries within a five - mile radius of their home office.

MillerCoors also recently acquired San Diego - based craft brewery Saint Archer Brewing Co., while Anheuser - Busch bought Golden Road Brewing, the largest craft brewery in Los Angeles.

She co-founded the craft brewery New Belgium Brewing Company with her then - husband, Jeff Lebesch, in 1991.

Here, the craft brewery connoisseur reflects on the hardest lessons she's learned and what she wishes she had known as a young entrepreneur.

Think about the explosion of craft breweries.

With a working farm, craft brewery, and one of the deepest wine collections in America (160,000 - plus bottles) this is foodie nirvana.

And most craft breweries also have a restaurant or tasting room attached, making it easy to spend a night out there with friends.

Wheaties, the breakfast cereal of champions, has teamed up with a nearby craft brewery in Minneapolis to create a limited - edition Hefeweizen beer, appropriately called HefeWheaties.

Not only did the Leuven, Belgium - based beer behemoth strike a $ 107 billion deal to acquire SABMiller in November — the largest beer - company merger in history — but AB InBev then went on to swallow up craft breweries in Arizona, Colorado, and the U.K. town of Camden.

But it's difficult to ignore the impact the country's 2,300 - plus craft breweries are making.

Organic craft brewery Green Valley Brewing Company doesn't fly the Anheuser - Busch flag, but it's owned by the company.

But craft breweries are opening at an astonishing pace around the country.

Residents can pre-game at Hardywood Park Craft Brewery's annual Brewdependence Day, where they'll be serving up 14 food trucks, live music, and of course, beer; hear a recitation of The Declaration of Independence; and get their picture taken with Thomas Jefferson and George Washington role - players.

In just their second year, MadTree brewery landed in the top 5 percent of all regional craft breweries in the country (by volume).

So is it any surprise big brewers are making a practice of either buying microbreweries outright (as Sleeman did with Quebec's Unibroue in 2004, only to be swallowed by Sapporo in 2006) or, more recently, by launching their own «craft breweries» (as Moosehead did when it launched Brampton, Ont.

At home, you want to find out more about this new craft brewery, but a couple of Google searches reveals they're owned by — gasp — Molson!

And while our early success was with beer aficionados, the city has really embraced us because we're the only craft brewery in Winnipeg and we're so engaged.

While Anheuser - Busch has responded by buying craft breweries, it has also positioned Budweiser as a kind of anti-craft beer.

But with obstacles like antiquated alcohol laws, skepticism about craft breweries, and manufacturing mishaps (i.e. bottles exploding on shelves), Marshall Brewing was far from an overnight success.

Watch parties popped up in places far more varied than just craft breweries in Brooklyn, with fans gathering everywhere from Hermosa Beach in California to a library in Birmingham, Ala., to the Tulsa Drillers» minor league baseball stadium in Oklahoma.

Kendall helped the craft brewery raise more than $ 5,000,000 from more than 6,000 investors using Regulation A of the JOBS Act.

Becoming a regional craft brewery like Sierra Nevada or the Boston Beer Company will be extremely rare, but not impossible, Watson said.

And their location can't be beat — in the center of St. Petersburg's thriving business and innovation district, with easy access to beautiful waterfront parks, restaurants, craft breweries and entertainment.

Craft breweries, aka microbreweries are booming in the United States — in fact, 98 % of this country's operating breweries are independently owned.

The 2016 figures do not include craft breweries acquired by large commercial brewers (who are no longer defined as craft by the Brewers Association).

The Brewers Association recorded 5,301 operating craft breweries in the US last year, up from 4,548 in 2015, representing a 0.1 % market share increase from 12.2 % to 12.3 % (by volume).

Ballast Point is San Diego's largest brewery, while three rivals — Stone, Green Flash and Karl Strauss — rank among 50 largest craft breweries.

When not behind a computer screen, he can be found in the mountains rock climbing or snow boarding, or bicycling to new craft breweries and coffee shops.

Samuel Adams and many small craft breweries have put out seasonal ales and lagers for years, and now, the big boys are following suit: Blue Moon, owned by MillerCoors, and Goose Island, owned by Anheuser - Busch, are both ramping up limited - time seasonal brews.

Craft breweries make up 6 % of the total market volume, up from 3.7 % in 2007, and had revenue of $ 8.7 billion in 2011, compared to $ 96 billion for the industry overall.

So it's not a bad idea for politicians to be seen kicking back the occasional beer — especially one that's made by a local craft brewery that employs (and is enjoyed by) potential voters.

They've also worked to get in on the craft market: Anheuser - Busch InBev bought Chicago craft brewery Goose Island in 2011.

26 years later, Odell Brewing Company ranks 34th in size among craft breweries in the U.S. Odell is a Colorado - centric company, with 65 % of its sales coming from Colorado.