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Hey it’s Wednesday and that means it’s Rumor Mill Time….While many breweries are investing their time and efforts in creating lower alcohol session IPAs, Green Flash Brewing is arrogantly bucking the national trend! We’ll be bringing you everything we know on this shocking development. Plus we’ve a roundup of today’s best craft brew news, gossip, and innuendo so you can be totally plugged in to everything going down.
We don’t sleep so you can….THIS WEEK’S RUMOR MILL IS ON!
Last Call for NYC’s Irish Pubs? (New York, NY) – Times change and sometimes a city’s most beloved institutions can disappear with those changes. And now,Crain’s is reporting that many of Manhattan’s beloved watering holes are closing at an alarming rate. New York’s classic Irish pubs have long been a source of food and drink at workingman’s prices but many are now falling victim to the city’s rising rents and a public whose growing interest in American craft beer is leading them other places. Sales of mainstays like Guinness Stout have flattened in the US over the past decade and that bodes badly for the city’s Irish bars, already struggling in one of the world’s most expensive cities.
Green Flash Arrogantly Bucks The Session IPA Trend (San Diego, CA) – At a time when many craft brewers are investing their time and efforts in creating new and more flavorful session IPAs, Green Flash Brewing is upping the ante on what they do best – brewing big, strong, high ABV IPAs. The company recently sent out an e-mail explaining that not only had they refined the flavor profiles in their popular flagships, Hop Head Red and West Coast IPA, but also increased the dry hopping for both brews and upped each beer’s ABV to 8.1%!
Craft Beer Biz Booming in Maine (Augusta, ME) – It doesn’t appear that there’s any kind of craft beer bubble brewing up in the “Pine Tree State” and we’re happy as we can be about that. The Bangor Daily News is reporting that “a study commissioned by the Maine Brewers’ Guild found the 35 breweries operating in 2013 plan to increase production by 36 percent this year and triple collective production in five years. This year, another eight breweries have come online, and another five are expected to open.”
Sunday Sales of Craft Beer in Minnesota Dies…Sort Of (Saint Paul, MN) – There’s good news and bad news coming out of new legislation that was recently signed into law by Governor Mark Dayton. According to TCB Mag, the new law does allow for on-premise Sunday sales in brewery taprooms across the state but does not include growler fills, as they are considered off-premise sales, which the new law unfortunately does not allow for.
Are There Too Many Breweries in Oregon? (Salem, OR) – The answer is “no” according to Damon Runberg, a regional economist with the Oregon Employment Department, who spent a year (?) analyzing The Beaver State’s beer industry. According to OregonLive, his report does indicate that Portland is home to the most breweries in the state, (again we have to ask…this guy took a year to tell us that?) and that there’s currently one brewery for every 21,000 residents.
