Georgia will be receiving it’s second store selling growlers very soon, this one again in Athens, GA. 5 Points Bottle Shop has been a landmark for many years for beer and wine. Coming soon is 5 Points Growlers.
Mentioned in the Continue Reading →
This year, Redhook Brewing celebrates 30 years of brewing. In their 30th year, Redhook is deciding to unveil a new look.
What you need to know:
Redhook first starting brewing in 1981. It’s not just the labels that will be spruced up. Expected bottle caps, packing, even the bottles.
A quote from Robert Rentsch, brand manager of Redhook:
“There seems to be a movement within the craft beer community where a lot of breweries are trying to ‘out craft’ each other. Redhook isn’t about that. Of course we’re brewing great beer, but we’re just as interested in having a great time. We think our new look reflects our personality well.”
Read on for the full press release
Finally out of committee!!! From the Peach Pundit:
Sunday Sales advocates rejoice. The Senate Republican caucus has just voted and SB 10 will be allowed out of Rules and will be voted on as a stand alone bill, not as Continue Reading →
Kiuchi Brewing – best known for Hitachino line of beers suffered some damage in the recent Japan quake. Posted to their website since the quake –
A big earthquake happend around our brewery. It will take a long time todo our ordinary job including export to foreign countries.
We will do our best to reconstruct our brewery, so please wait for a while.
In leiu of brewing, Kiuchi Brewing is has suspended production of beer and is bottling water to help the victims of this terrible tragedy.
Posted to a BeerAdvocate forum today was a response from B. United, importers of Hitachino:
Creative Loafing’s “Fresh Loaf” is reporting that the Sunday Sales could see a floor vote today, but not as SB 10. Apparently there are enough senators demanding sunday sales see the light of day, so it has been attached to Continue Reading →
Dogfish Head Brewing just announced on their blog that they are going to pull out of 4 U.S. markets.
What You Need To Know:
Due to production issues, Dogfish Head Brewing is pulling out of 4 states – Wisconsin, Rhode Island, Tennessee, & Indiana. Also the United Kingdom, and Canada.
Read On for the full post
Senators John Kerry (D-Massachusetts)& Mike Crapo (R- Idaho) have officially introduced the BEER Act, that would lower the beer excise tax on small brewers in America. BEER stands for Brewer’s Employment & Excise Relief.
What You Need To Know:
The BEER Act aims to create close to 1,600 jobs in the small brewing industry. There are close to 100,000 jobs already in craft brewing. The senators have met with breweries in their respective states discussing finances, supply & demand, taxation etc. Introducing this beer will keep the industry thriving in rough economic times. Small brewers incur higher costs for production, raw materials, & packaging than the large breweries, and multi-national competitors. The BEER Act also stimulates barley, wheat, & hop growers.
Current Tax Structure:
– If the small brewery produces less than 2 million barrels, the excise tax is $7 a barrel on the first 60,000 barrels
– Over 60,000, excise tax is $18 a barrel.
Proposed Tax Structure:
– Reduces the excise tax from $7 to $3.50. The difference gives small breweries an estimated $19.9 Million for expansion & employment.
– Excise tax for barrel production from 60,000 barrels t0 2 million barrels would be lowered to $16 a barrel. An addition of $27.1 million for growth & development.
The current tax structure and legislation has not been updated since 1976. Read on for the full press release
Georgia will be receiving it’s second store selling growlers very soon, this one again in Athens, GA. 5 Points Bottle Shop has been a landmark for many years for beer and wine. Coming soon is 5 Points Growlers.
Mentioned in the Brewtopia Newsletter, 5 Points has received all the proper licensing for the venture. The grand opening is planned for just after April 1, 2011. 5 Points Growler will also sell home brewing supplies.
5 Points Growlers
3687 Atlanta Hwy.
Athens, GA
706-316-2369
This year, Redhook Brewing celebrates 30 years of brewing. In their 30th year, Redhook is deciding to unveil a new look.
What you need to know:
Redhook first starting brewing in 1981. It’s not just the labels that will be spruced up. Expected bottle caps, packing, even the bottles.
A quote from Robert Rentsch, brand manager of Redhook:
“There seems to be a movement within the craft beer community where a lot of breweries are trying to ‘out craft’ each other. Redhook isn’t about that. Of course we’re brewing great beer, but we’re just as interested in having a great time. We think our new look reflects our personality well.”
Full Press Release
Woodinville, Wash. — March 14, 2011. This month, Redhook Brewery, one of the nation’s founding domestic craft brewers, is celebrating its 30th birthday by unveiling a new look, including bottles, labels, bottle caps and packaging.
The new look is all part of Redhook’s effort to get back to its roots. “There seems to be a movement within the craft beer community where a lot of breweries are trying to ‘out craft’ each other,” said Robert Rentsch, brand manager of Redhook Brewery. “Redhook isn’t about that. Of course we’re brewing great beer, but we’re just as interested in having a great time. We think our new look reflects our personality well.”
The Beginning
Just like other pioneering brands such as Starbucks and Microsoft, Redhook was born out of the energy and spirit of the 80’s. In 1981, founders Paul Shipman and Gordon Bowker (who happened to be a co-founder of Starbucks) thought the people of Seattle deserved their own beer; one that offered more flavor than the lighter tasting domestics and imports that were available at the time.
Redhook started brewing beer out of a converted transmission shop in Seattle’s Ballard neighborhood. After achieving local success with Ballard Bitter (known today as Long Hammer IPA) and ESB, Redhook became the first nationally distributed craft beer brand. Then came the identity crisis. “We realized we weren’t celebrating the big personality that Redhook is in the way it deserved to be celebrated,” said Rentsch.
The Evolution
After some soul-searching over a few beers, Redhook decided it needed its exterior to match its personality. The new look includes:
Packaging/Labels: Easy-to-spot labels and packaging across all Redhook beers helps consumers quickly grab and go in the beer aisle. Every beer style is identified by a unique color scheme and Redhook’s simple beer-o-meter on the side helps pick between refreshing, smooth, bold, or dark.
Bottle/Bottle Caps: To go back to basics, Redhook created a no-frills bottle, while the bottle caps all depict iconic images and phrases of Redhook’s colorful 30–year history, so you can drink while you reminisce. Genius.
About Redhook
Redhook was born out of the energy and spirit of the early 80’s in the heart of Seattle. While the term didn’t exist at the time, Redhook became one of America’s first “craft” breweries. From a modest start in a former transmission shop in the Seattle neighborhood of Ballard, to the current breweries in Woodinville, Wash. and Portsmouth, N.H., Redhook has become one of America’s most recognized craft breweries. While Redhook has “grown up” over the past 30 years, one thing has never changed — it’s still brewing great beers like ESB, Long Hammer IPA, Copperhook, and seasonal brews. Most importantly, Redhook makes sure it has fun doing it. Redhook’s beers are available in both draught and bottles and are distributed nationally through a network of wholesale distributors. For more information, visit www.redhook.com
Finally out of committee!!! From the Peach Pundit:
Sunday Sales advocates rejoice. The Senate Republican caucus has just voted and SB 10 will be allowed out of Rules and will be voted on as a stand alone bill, not as an amendment to SB 150, on Wednesday.
There are some technical corrections that need to be made to SB 10, so expect amendments. I would envision the amendment process to get quite lively. If you enjoy good political theater, get down to the Capitol early Wednesday, and bring a Costco sized tub of popcorn.
Kiuchi Brewing – best known for Hitachino line of beers suffered some damage in the recent Japan quake. Posted to their website since the quake –
A big earthquake happend around our brewery. It will take a long time todo our ordinary job including export to foreign countries.
We will do our best to reconstruct our brewery, so please wait for a while.
In leiu of brewing, Kiuchi Brewing is has suspended production of beer and is bottling water to help the victims of this terrible tragedy.
Posted to a BeerAdvocate forum today was a response from B. United, importers of Hitachino:
Hi Polly:
Thank you so much for your very kind words & understanding. Indeed, New Orleanians can probably best relate to the incredible scope & scale of this disaster. I received the following email from Toshiyuki Kiuchi yesterday {see below}.
I am in touch with Toshiyuki to organize how best the proceeds of many fund raising events can be transferred directly to him /to the families in need without loss to bureaucracies and/or administration.
1. They are all ok . Kiuchi brewery, in particular the Sake part, was damaged & need fixing/rebuilding. He will keep you posted.
2. The most damage was caused to Sendai, about 180 miles northeast of Mito. Lots of damage, but more importantly, lots of people missing.
3. Kiuchi brewery is now using their full brewery capacity to bottle water for people who have lost their homes. As you might have read on the internet there is a severe shortage on food & water there. We are extremely proud of Kiuchi Brewery’s commitment
and fast action to help everyone in need.
4. We are putting together a shipment of special kegs & cases [at our cost] to be shipped to Kiuchi Brewery as soon as possible/appropriate. We want to organize a special event at Kiuchi brewery to raise money for all these many people who have lost their homes and loved ones.
I will keep you posted.
PS Over the next months we will not be able to perfectly serve all our markets with Hitachino Nestbeer. We do apologize for any inconvenience this may cause you and your /our Hitachino customers. But we DO believe that you and all your /our Hitachino customers will understand & embrace Kiuchi Brewery’s societal responsibility and commitment.
Creative Loafing’s “Fresh Loaf” is reporting that the Sunday Sales could see a floor vote today, but not as SB 10. Apparently there are enough senators demanding sunday sales see the light of day, so it has been attached to SB 150. If it passes, it would be up to local governments to allow or disallow the sales of beer/wine/liquor on Sunday.
From the Fresh Loaf Article:
While the bill came through the Regulated Industries Committee and Rules Committee ”clean”, the amendment to attach Sunday Sales is expected on the Senate floor. I’m told there is a heated battle among Senate heavyweights to demand the bill be “engrossed”, which would prohibit amendments. This generally from Senators who find a recorded vote on Sunday Sales a lose-lose for them, or who can profit from a non-vote as a win-win. The engrossment of a bill is usally only done on a finance or ethics bill, so a vote for engrossment on this bill can be viewed as a proxy for those who do not want a Sunday Sales vote.
Researching this situation. More to follow…
Full Article Link —> http://clatl.com/freshloaf/archives/2011/03/14/sunday-sales-legislation-to-gulp-rise-from-the-grave-today
AJC Link —> http://bit.ly/e6dGrp
Dogfish Head Brewing just announced on their blog that they are going to pull out of 4 U.S. markets.
What You Need To Know:
Due to production issues, Dogfish Head Brewing is pulling out of 4 states – Wisconsin, Rhode Island, Tennessee, & Indiana. Also the United Kingdom, and Canada.
Full Blog Post:
Hello and happy almost Spring fellow off-centered beer enthusiasts. As we look back on last year from atop our uni-tanks here in Milton, Delaware we have much to be proud of and much to be thankful for.
We recently learned that, over the last five years, demand for Dogfish Head brands has made us the fastest growing brewery in America. We are proud of this growth and the opportunity weve had to turn so many more people on to our off-centered ales. The most important thing for us (and we hope for you as well) is that we produced and sold a greater variety of super-high-quality, super-unique off-centered ales than any other year in our 16 year existence. In 2010, we did more R&D batches and more one-off-freak-flag-waving brews than ever on our 5-barrel system from our Rehoboth pub. On the production side, we brewed several new and different bottled and draft beers. Our success has also pushed our production capacity to the absolute limit.
We are sorry that some of you have experienced frustrations when youve recently asked for your favorite Dogfish beer at your favorite craft beer joint. While Ive described our philosophy on balancing growth vs. the health of our company in a previous blog post, please know that I do recognize our choice to grow strong and smart instead of just growing fast, our choice to keep experimenting and pushing the envelope instead of allowing ourselves to be mutated into the 60 Minute brewing company, comes with its own challenges. We are up to the challenge and hope that you are too.
Recently, the most taxing component of this challenge is that having demand so far in front of our supply has gotten a point where we need to makes some changes, as we are not even close to meet the requests from our fantastic distributors. This is frustrating to them… and to our retailers and to you, the Dogfish drinker.
We know the message you want more Dogfish! Our InBox, our Facebook page, our Twitter feed and our website Forum posts are all littered with Please send more Dogfish to whatever-town or Please start selling Dogfish in my state. In order to get our supply closer to your demand, wed need to get a big, big pile of money and grow, grow, grow. We are not excited by that. We get excited by having fun, brewing a bunch of great beers and growing at a slower, steadier pace.
In the past few months, weve alerted our wholesale partners in both the U.K. and Canada that we do not expect to be able to support any export in 2011. We need all the beer were brewing right now for the U.S. market. But realistically, we werent sending much there anyway, so we need to make even more changes. It is tough to hear from retailers across the country that they arent getting all the Dogfish they think they could sell, but without drastically changing our company and the way we operate, we cannot satisfy that demand.
So it is bittersweet for us to announce that we are pulling out of, or limiting some of our core beers from, a number of states. Yes this sucks. The glass-half-full view is that we (and a handful of other U.S. craft breweries making similar moves) have to do this because your numbers the number of U.S. drinkers buying and enjoying craft beer – are growing so quickly! We sincerely apologize for any frustrations this may cause distributors, retailers, and beer lovers who are affected by our decision. This decision will allow us to still get many different, exotic, Dogfish specialty and seasonal beers into our slightly smaller footprint. It will also ensure that more cases and kegs of our core, year-round beers will be available closer to home. The distributors in the states we are pulling distribution from (Tennessee, Indiana, Wisconsin and Rhode Island) have already been notified of our decision. If your favorite pubs and beer outlets are no longer able to obtain Dogfish products, we are sorry that we are no longer able to supply them. Thanks for understanding and we are hopeful for your ongoing support.
Cheers.
Senators John Kerry (D-Massachusetts)& Mike Crapo (R- Idaho) have officially introduced the BEER Act, that would lower the beer excise tax on small brewers in America. BEER stands for Brewer’s Employment & Excise Relief.
What You Need To Know:
The BEER Act aims to create close to 1,600 jobs in the small brewing industry. There are close to 100,000 jobs already in craft brewing. The senators have met with breweries in their respective states discussing finances, supply & demand, taxation etc. Introducing this beer will keep the industry thriving in rough economic times. Small brewers incur higher costs for production, raw materials, & packaging than the large breweries, and multi-national competitors. The BEER Act also stimulates barley, wheat, & hop growers.
Current Tax Structure:
– If the small brewery produces less than 2 million barrels, the excise tax is $7 a barrel on the first 60,000 barrels
– Over 60,000, excise tax is $18 a barrel.
Proposed Tax Structure:
– Reduces the excise tax from $7 to $3.50. The difference gives small breweries an estimated $19.9 Million for expansion & employment.
– Excise tax for barrel production from 60,000 barrels t0 2 million barrels would be lowered to $16 a barrel. An addition of $27.1 million for growth & development.
The current tax structure and legislation has not been updated since 1976.
Full Press Release:
(Washington, D.C.) — Senators Mike Crapo (R-Idaho) and John Kerry (D-Massachusetts) today introduced legislation to reduce the beer excise tax for America’s small brewers. The Brewer’s Employment and Excise Relief (BEER) Act will help create jobs at more than 1,600 small breweries nationwide, which collectively employ nearly 100,000 people. Idaho and Massachusetts are home to dozens of small breweries.
“Like any private business, craft brewing is all about supply and demand,” said Crapo. “In touring Idaho last year, I met with many craft brewers who are seeking to expand their business because they are seeing increased demand for their product. In addition, this legislation will expand the ready markets for our barley, wheat and hops producers in Idaho. I remain optimistic this bill will pass this year to create new jobs and new markets.”
“The craft beer revolution started right here in Massachusetts and they’ve been going toe to toe with multi-national beer companies ever since,” said Kerry. “This bill will help ensure that these small businesses keep people on the payroll and create jobs even during tight economic times.”
Because of differences in economies of scale, small brewers have higher costs for production, raw materials, packaging and market entry than larger, well-established multi-national competitors. The BEER Act also helps states that produce barley, hops and other ingredients used by these small brewers. In addition to Senators Crapo and Kerry, the legislation is co-sponsored by a bipartisan coalition of 16 additional Senators.
Currently, a small brewer that produces less than two million barrels of beer per year is eligible to pay $7.00 per barrel on the first 60,000 barrels produced each year. This legislation will reduce this rate to $3.50 per barrel, giving our nation’s smallest brewers approximately $19.9 million per year to expand and generate jobs. This change helps approximately 1,525 breweries nationwide.
Currently, once production exceeds 60,000 barrels, a small brewer must pay the same $18 per barrel excise tax rate that the largest brewer pays while producing more than 100 million barrels. This legislation will lower the tax rate to $16 per barrel on beer production above 60,000 barrels, up to two million barrels, providing small brewers with an additional $27.1 million per year that can be used to support significant long-term investments and create jobs by growing their businesses on a regional or national scale.
The small brewer tax rate was established in 1976 and has never been updated. This legislation would update the ceiling defining small breweries by increasing it from two million barrels to six million barrels. Raising the ceiling to six million barrels more accurately reflects the intent of the original differentiation between large and small brewers in the U.S.
