The relationship between Bert Grant’s Ales and the late Bert Grant becomes more tenuous with the announcement that Yakima Brewing and Malting Co. is moving production of its beers out of Yakima, Wash., to other breweries not yet named.
Obviously the beers will be brewed under contract, not in the brewery he built in 1990, and […]
The worldwide glut of wine has become so huge that for the first time in history, France is distilling some of its higher-rated wines into fuel. France has periodically turned oceans of lowly table wines into vinegar and ethanol. But bottles of quality French wine have been piling up on supermarket shelves and in vineyard […]
Brü, one of two brewpubs in Rochester, N.Y., has closed its doors - failing where Empire Brewing failed before. Fashun Ku, the city’s commissioner of economic development, told the local newspaper that microbreweries are a tough business because they are no longer en vogue.
“It’s not necessarily sad; consumer’s demands changed. People like to have chicken […]
The domination of the big players, both brewers and distributions, is hardly unique to the beer business.
“Stop the madness! Drink wines made by people, not corporations,” Hoyt Hill writes in the Nashville City Paper.
He points out:
Thirty percent of the wine sold in the United States is distributed by one wholesaler, Southern Wine and Spirits, […]
CNN Money investigates how higher gas prices might affect beer sales.
First, there are the delivery costs.
Second, higher gas prices cut into consumers’ disposable incomes.
On the sales volume side, gas is a big problem for Anheuser-Busch, which has a 60% share in the convenience store sector, the story points out. “Convenience stores typically attract lower income […]
New York’s ‘Hops Trail’ cuts roughly 100 miles across the central part of the state a string of picturesque hop houses (specialized barns) and features farms, historic estates, museums, a spa town, landmark tavern, breweries and (if you get there at the right time) a hop festival.
Members of the Northeast Hop Alliance understand that hops […]
Did you know that hefeweizens are the third-largest category among craft or specialty beers and the fastest-growing segment?
I hadn’t thought about it, but am a little surprised. The fact explains in part why Pyramid Breweries has chosen to focus so hard on hefeweizens - including brewing the first American-style Oktoberfest wheat beer.
Pyramid is rolling out […]
