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We thought what with the winter holidays, things might slow down a bit…but we couldn’t have been more mistaken! So here’s some of what’s been happening while you were drinking your way to into the New Year.
Summit Sues To Secure the Brewery’s Trade Secrets (St Paul, MN) – According Minneapolis’ Star Tribune Summit Brewing is suing two of their former employees, Jeffrey Spaerth and Timothy Daley for “conspiring to sell the company’s confidential trade secrets to high-level executives for a direct competitor.” The direct competitor that Summit’s lawsuit is referencing just happens to be there brethren across the river, Surly Brewing so this dispute has the industry talking!
North Carolina Demands Craft Freedom (Charlotte, NC) – Craft Freedom is a craft beer advocacy group that hopes to change a state law that limits small breweries to producing no more than 25,000 barrels if they intend to self-distribute their own beer. As things stands now any brewery exceeding that production cap within a calendar year must work with a state sanctioned beer distributor who then gains control over all sales, delivery, distribution, and quality control during transportation. Today, most craft breweries in the state have reportedly created their own self distribution networks.
Words To Drink By (London, England) – “Beer may cause you to digress…and lead a happier life.
Michael Jackson – The Beer Hunter
DNA Beer (Greenwich, UK) – If you’ve around $30,000 dollars to literally piss away UK-based Meantime Brewing will reportedly take your saliva sample and work up a genetic profile for a brew that sensually perfect for you. Like we’ve said “If you’ve the money to literally piss away…”
Trillium Brewing Is Thinking Expansion Again (South Boston/Canton, MA) – Trillium Brewing who started in South Boston before adding a secondary farmhouse brewery based in Canton, Massachusetts to their base of operations have announced via their blog that they are not done expanding and that they hope to stay close to their flagship operation in the Fort Point neighborhood in South Boston.
Trillium Photo credit: Bostino
