THE AMERICAN CRAFT BEER- QUICK HITS – September 30, 2013

THE AMERICAN CRAFT BEER- QUICK HITS – September 30, 2013

|September 30th, 2013|

We blame the industry for this… It used to be that when we wrapped up our Weekend Picks on Friday, we could coast through the weekend. There was little need to check in for updates – things were pretty much done. But clearly all that’s changed. So here’s some of what’s happened in the world of craft beer while you were enjoying yourselves.

breakingbadSmuttynose Breaks Bad (Portsmouth, NH) – When a show’s as red-hot as television’s Breaking Bad (whose final episode aired last night,) currently everything matters. And if you watched last week’s episode, you may have noticed that the Smuttynose Brewing Company made a couple of guest appearances. “At one point in the TV show, the Smuttynose logo…can be seen over actor Bryan Cranston’s shoulder, according to seacoast online and on another occasion, “Cranston is sitting at a bar where a few Smuttynose tap markers can be seen off to his left.”

And So It Begins (Stockholm, Sweden) — The Brooklyn Brewery’s Swedish subsidiary has begun work on their long-planned Stockholm-based brewery. Workmen began installing fermenters at The New Carnegie Brewery (a Swedish brewery with a 178-year-old history) last Thursday. The project is a partnership between The Brooklyn Brewery, Carlsberg Sweden, and a group of private investors. Carlsberg is a Danish company, the #1 brewery in Scandinavia, and currently owns the brands produced at the Carnegie Brewery.

Baxter-Phantom-Punch-Winter-Stout“Best Beer Name of The Week” Awarded! (Lewiston, ME) – This week’s American Craft Beer Name of the Week goes to Baxter Brewing Company. Phantom Punch Winter Stout is their “knock-out” winter seasonal stout brewed to compete that will be rolling out mid-October. This was a first “Best Beer Name” win for the Lewiston, Maine-based brewery – and we’re thinking they’ve got to be psyched about it.

The Bronx Brewery Expands into Jersey (Bronx, NY) – We’ve been covering our friends at The Bronx Brewery from when they began a couple of years back and we’re big fans. The brewery’s founders, Chris Gallant and Damian Brown, are both great guys with a passion for what they’re building out of the Bronx – and they are brewing some serious beer! They currently distribute in NYC and its boroughs, New York State, and into Connecticut. And now Hunterdon Brewing has begun distributing their brews in the Garden State.

Hair of the Dog’s Dave Fetches Big Bucks (Portland, OR) – Hair of the Dog Dave is said to be “one of the rarest, most sought-after beers among the American craft beer landscape.” So when Hair of the Dog’s owner and brewmaster, Alan Sprint, put 12 bottles up for auction, few were surprised to see them all go in just hours for $2000 each. Dave is a monster of a barleywine, coming in at 29% ABV. “It was produced in 1994 by freezing 300 gallons of the brewery’s flagship Adam beer numerous times and reducing the batch size to less than 100 gallons,” according to Beer Served Rare. In 1998, it won gold at the Toronado Barleywine Festival in San Francisco.

Victory’s Thinking Big (Downingtown, PA) – Victory Brewing has never been shy about thinking big and recently told the Business Insider that they intend to grow 250% in the next five years (or less). Not a small aspiration for a company that already produces “nearly 100,000 barrels of beer a year, sells in 30 states, and is in the midst of building a new brewery that will more than double its capacity.”

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