Labatt Breweries of Canada, owned by Anheuser-Busch InBev, has acquired Banded Peak Brewing Ltd. According to the Calgary Herald, terms of the deal were not disclosed. Banded Peak operates a taproom and brewery in southeast Calgary, an area some refer to as the “Barley Belt”. The small craft brewery, founded in 2016, is known for…
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A record number of chickens have given up their wings to allow Americans to engage in their favourite pastime this Sunday – watching the Super Bowl and eating hot wings. To put that in perspective, if Kansas City Chiefs’ coach Andy Reid ate three wings per minute, it would take him about 900 years to…
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Tenth and Blake Beer Company, the U.S. craft division of Molson Coors has acquired Detroit-based Atwater Brewery. The brewery is highly regarded in the Michigan craft beer community for its traditional German-style lagers and unique ales. “The agreement with Tenth and Blake is both the culmination of our past and the catapult to our future,”…
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After teaming up with beer writer and historian Jordan St John, Toronto’s Muddy York Brewing Company is brewing a beer that first saw light of day 180-years-ago at Helliwell Brewery, one of Canada’s first. According to Muddy York, Jordan read the Helliwell brewing diaries and painstakingly analyzed them in the hopes of interpreting exactly how…
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Barefoot, the USA’s leading table wine brand owned by E&J Gallo, has announced it will enter the popular hard seltzer category with Barefoot Hard Seltzer, a hard seltzer made with wine. The brand will begin to roll out Barefoot Hard Seltzer nationwide in February 2020. Drawing off the success of Barefoot’s popular Barefoot Spritzer, award-winning winemaker…
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While the weather outside might be cold, freezing and snowing, the beer will still be pouring at this year’s Winter Craft Beer Festival in Toronto. According to the Daily Hive, the festival on 1 February, will highlight the craft brewers of Ontario. The festival will take place at Steam Whistle Brewing’s Roundhouse Park and will…
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Brewdog’s US chief revenue officer Adam Lambert tells Brewbound that there is room in the market for more nitrogenated craft beers. The Scottish-based company will come out in the first quarter a nitrogenated version of Jet Black Heart with espresso both on draft and in 16 oz cans. Other new products for 2020 include Brewdog’s…
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Nova Scotia’s first craft malt house and brewery has released a beer which should put a red glow in your winter’s day. Ridge Rosé, a farmhouse-inspired pale ale, has been sitting on Muscat grape skins for almost two months, giving the beer an amazing flavour and aroma, while souring the 5% ABV beer, says Horton…
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“2020 trends will be lower-calorie, lower-carb craft beers that still feature interesting features,” according to an interview in The Beer Connoisseur with Jim Koch of Boston Beer and Sam Calagione of Dogfish Head. The two major craft breweries merged last year, setting shock waves throughout the industry. “As a brewer and a beer drinker, I’ve…
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US beer giant Pabst Brewing, which is famed for its low-cost Pabst Blue Ribbon beer brand – known by fans as simply PBR – has launched a new craft beer brand, complete with a flagship beer ‘Seabird IPA’. Unlike most of the big brewers which do all they can to hide their ownership of a…
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