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Things are certainly heating up in the world of craft beer as we move in to 2017. And here’s some of what’s been happening while you were drinking your way through the inauguration this weekend.
Charlie Bamforth – Brewing Professor UC Davis
Sierra Nevada’s Ken Grossman and Wife Contributes To Campus Brewing Program (University of California –Davis) For the last two decades, The University of California’s Davis campus has been building a world-class brewing education program complete with a small state-of-the art working brewery
Ken Grossman the founder of Sierra Nevada and his wife Katie Gonser have gifted the university with a $2 million endowment to support UC Davis’ renowned brewing science program.
Born and raised in Los Angeles, Grossman quietly started home brewing as a high school student – a passion which eventually led to him founding Sierra Nevada, now the nation’s third biggest craft brewer, a 1-milion barrel-a-year powerhouse with brewing operations on both sides of the country.
The Gift establishes an endowment to provide ongoing funding for a full-time staff brewing position, focused on excellence in hands-on brewing education in the UC Davis Department of Food Science and Technology.
Words To Drink By (Chico, CA) – “We went from getting no respect to having German brewers come visit us to see the way we brew. That’s pretty awesome.”
Sierra Nevada’s Ken Grossman to Inc.
Massachusetts Bill Looks To Provide New Freedom For The State’s Craft Brewers (Boston, MA) – The new proposal (filed Friday, by Democratic state Representative John J. Mahoney of Worcester and backed by the Beer Distributors of Massachusetts), would reportedly “slightly relax the state’s controversial “franchise” law, which effectively binds breweries to their wholesalers in perpetuity.” According to the Boston Globe “the current law… only allows a brewery to walk away from its 
distributor if it can prove to state regulators that the wholesaler has met one of several conditions — such as violating the law or failing to “exercise best efforts” in selling its beer to retailers.”
Oskar Blues Dale’s Rules! (Longmont, CO / Brevard, NC / Austin, TX) – Last Thursday Oskar Blues tipped us that their flagship Dale’s Pale Ale had become the nation’s bestselling craft canned 6-packat US supermarkets, according to IRI. Congrats to everyone …and know that we’ve been doing our best to support those numbers around the ACB compound.
