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Hey it’s Wednesday and it’s Rumor Mill Time…There’s Gigantic news coming out of Portland, Oregon and we’ll be bringing you everything we know so far. Plus we’ve got some fast-breaking news from Great Lakes Brewing and more gossip from Escondido! We’ve also got a fresh new release that you’ll want to chase down. So fasten your seatbelts everybody…THIS WEEK’S RUMOR MILL IS ON!
Pumpkin Alert! (Seattle, WA) – Is June too early to start talking pumpkin beer festivals? We thought so – but WE DON’T CARE because when news breaks that the Elysian Brewing Company will be expanding their legendary Great Pumpkin Beer Festival from two days to three this year, YOU RUN WITH IT. This year’s insanity takes place October 4, 5, and 6. You’ve been warned.
Gigantic News! (Portland, OR) – The dynamic duo, Van Havig and Ben Love from the Gigantic Brewing Company, were recently on the wildly entertaining Under My Host podcast. While on air, they hinted that their beers, which can already be found in Oregon, Washington, British Columbia, Alaska, and Vermont, will soon be making their way into California. And that’s Gigantic!
Great Lakes Explores Hymn To Ninkasi (Cleveland, OH) – Great Lakes Brewing Company is exploring Ancient Ale and according to The New York Times, they’ve enlisted the aid of archaeologists at the University of Chicago to help them. The goal is to replicate a 5,000-year-old Sumerian beer using only clay vessels and a wooden spoon, and the company has been trying for more than a year. In place of steel tanks, they’re using ceramic vessels “modeled after artifacts excavated in Iraq during the 1930s.” No word on when this brew will be available for growler fills.
Stone Goes Packing (Escondido, CA) – Stone Brewing announced on their Facebook page that they just opened their new packaging hall last week, and from the pictures that they posted, it’s impressive. It’s a 999.815 sq ft space with kegging and bottling capacity, and beerpulse is reporting that this$6.5 million initial investment includes an expanded barrel-aging program.
A New Brewhouse for Fort Collins (Fort Collins, CO) – Our friends at the Fort Collins Brewery will be bringing their $1 million dollar brewhouse on line this fall and we’re happy for them. The Coloradoan is reporting that this new expansion will include two 150-barrel fermenters that will “increase the brewery’s annual capacity from 22,100 barrels annually to 32,300.”
Shocker – State Legislators to Consider Doing the Right Thing! (Harrisburg, PA) – Looks like another step is being taken in the road to privatizing sales of wine and liquor in Pennsylvania, according to philly.com.Sen. Chuck McIlhinney (R., Bucks), who chairs the Law and Justice Committee that oversees liquor legislation, envisions “giving consumers the ability to buy beer, wine, and liquor under one roof as well as more options to purchase beer by the six-pack.”
A Rumor Mill Release You Want to Look Out For
Stone Brewing Companyhas just releasedStone RuinTen IPA, a re-brew of 2012’s infamous Stone Ruination Tenth Anniversary IPA. This triple IPA was embraced by fans and Team Stone alike, which prompted Stone Co-founders Greg Koch and Steve Wagner to add the intensely aromatic and unabashedly bitter brew to the Stone special release calendar this year. It’s out there now troops, but this one will disappear fast – so you know what to do.
