Beer News

Hop City To Sell Growlers

Hop City Craft Beer & Wine in downtown Atlanta has announced that they will be selling growlers starting April 14th, 2011.  These will be the first growlers sold in Atlanta.

Late 2010, the Georgia Department of Revenue “revised” their view on Continue Reading →

Iron City Brewing Purchased

More beer business.  Uni-World Capital, L.P. an equity firm has acquired Iron City Brewing Company.  From the looks of it, it’s an ownership change.  Nothing else.

PITTSBURGH, PA (April 6, 2011) – Uni-World Capital, L.P., a private equity firm, has acquired the brands and assets related to the beer business of the Iron City Brewing Company. The brewery’s headquarters will remain in Pittsburgh and beer production will continue in Latrobe, Penn. The purchase is entirely funded by equity capital from Uni-World and its affiliates. Edwin R. Lozano, 43, will serve as the new president and chief executive officer of Iron City Brewing Co. Tim Hickman, president since 2007, will be retained as a consultant during the transition period

Mother Earth Shows Us Her Cans

Mother Earth Brewing is a 40 barrel brewery in Kinston, North Carolina.  The canning line is being added to the space in the brewery that is currently under renovation.  Completion of the line installation should be completed this spring, cans Continue Reading →

Boston Beer Loan Program

Boston Beer Company’s founder Jim Koch announced on a visit to the Wall Street Journal on Monday, a special loan program targeting upstart breweries.  This new loan program is an extension of Boston Beer’s “Brewing The American Dream” program, founded Continue Reading →