Heavy Seas Brewing (Baltimore, MD) tweeted today they they are going to unveil something that no other brewery has, or has every done, tomorrow at 12pm. Obviously that raises an eyebrow. I guess we’ll find out tomorrow…
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Savor 2011 Tickets go on sale at noon!! Love food? Love Beer? No nothing about Savor? Read This:
2011 SAVOR Media Advisory
June 3-4, 2011: SAVOR: An American Craft Beer & Food Experience
Brewers Association Adds Second Night to Popular Washington, D.C. Event
WHAT:
Now in its fourth year, SAVOR: An American Craft Beer & Food Experience returns to Washington, D.C. and expands from one to two nights. Presented by the Brewers Association (organizers of the Great American Beer Festival®), SAVOR, the benchmark of beer and food events, is a must-attend happening for beer lovers and foodies alike.
AJC reported a little update on Sunday Sales today. Bills in the house and senate are still stuck AND there are a lot of piece of important legislation. Perhaps by the end of the session.
The Brewers Association’s Erin Glass has a tough job of keep roll of all the breweries in America. Seems like almost daily a brewery opens, closes, or is planned. It was announced over the weekend that breweries in the United States has surpassed 1,700. That’s a lot of beer. If each one of those breweries releases just 5 beers, you are already a beer beer behind. So get drinking. From Brewersassociation.org
The Brewers Association’s Membership Coordinator and Brewery Detective Erin Glass keeps an eye on brewery openings, closings, transitions and breweries in planning. With so much interest in craft brewing today, there is a lot more detective work and a large number of calls and emails to breweries in planning, those on the cusp and those recently opened.
Many startups join the Brewers Association during the planning phase to access our resources and the expertise of the network and remain members after becoming operational. U.S. operational brewery membership is now at 1,218. Total brewery membership, when international breweries, contract brewing companies and breweries in planning are added, is 1,619.
New Belgium Brewing is expanding their distribution to Virgina, Maryland, & Washington D.C. With this expansion, that brewings New Belgium’s territory to 29 states. One of the largest, if not THE largest by a craft brewer in America.
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This is the blogging form of a retraction. Chip Rogers actually supports Sunday sales – and even co authored the bill. The response I received on Sunday Sales supporters mentioned Senator Rogers as an opponent. I spoke with his Continue Reading →
Today at 12 noon, supporters of S.B. 10 aka Sunday sales bill will rally at the capitol building in downtown Atlanta. Last week, the bill was not brought to a vote due to “lack of support”. Special interest groups have Continue Reading →
