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Anchor Brewing to Expand in SF Bay

Anchor Brewing has announced plans for a new facility on the San Francisco waterfront. In conjunction with the San Francisco Giants, Anchor will add a second location in the $1.6 billion Mission Rock development area. The 212,000 sq ft facilities will Continue Reading →

Win Rare Beer, Support A Good Cause

In case you missed it last week, a good friend of Beer Street Journal @BurgerandBrew is hosting a raffle to benefit his triathlon to fight fight Leukemia and Lymphoma with Team in Training. Winners of the raffle will have the beer personally Continue Reading →

Sam Adams To Officially Begin Canning

Boston Beer Company, makers of Samuel Adams, will begin canning soon.  Boston Lager and Summer Ale are among the first cans to roll off the line. Rumors of the cans started circulating last year, but no set date was announced. Continue Reading →

Posted in Anchor Brewing, Beer News, Brewery Expansions

Anchor Brewing to Expand in SF Bay

Anchor Brewing has announced plans for a new facility on the San Francisco waterfront. In conjunction with the San Francisco Giants, Anchor will add a second location in the $1.6 billion Mission Rock development area. The 212,000 sq ft facilities will house production and distribution facilities as well as a restaurant, museum, and other public attractions.

The expansion will quadruple the brewery’s yearly output. Construction is scheduled to begin in late 2014 with hopes of completion in 2016. Anchor is expected to create at least 200 jobs with this expansion.

by Reid Ramsay
Posted in Avery Brewing, Beer News

Avery Brewing Victim of Beer Theft

According to local news sources, Avery Brewing Co. lost 570 bottles worth of rare beers over the course of the past 8 months with a value of approximately $15,000 due to theft. Avery employee Adam Dickinson is accused of stealing said beers, selling them on eBay, and even giving some to his new boss as a gift.

The majority of the bottles were rare releases and limited edition brews. “It blew us all away mostly because it is a very tight knit community. Around here we call each other family. We haven’t seen anything like that before,”Avery assistant Tap Room manager Matty Lambuth says. The suspect is currently being held on $5000 bail.

by Reid Ramsay
Posted in Beer News

Win Rare Beer, Support A Good Cause

In case you missed it last week, a good friend of Beer Street Journal @BurgerandBrew is hosting a raffle to benefit his triathlon to fight fight Leukemia and Lymphoma with Team in Training. Winners of the raffle will have the beer personally shipped to you. Very much a feel good situation. Donate or join the raffle now. Beers up for grabs include:

Barrel Aged North Carolina:
2012 set of 1 each of Olde Rabbit’s Foot, BA Sexual Chocolate, Silent Night and Event Horizon

Westy 12 Brick Set:
1 Westvleteren 12 brick containing 6 bottles and 2 glasses

Goose Island Set:
1 Bourbon County Stout, 1 Juliet and 1 Lolita

THE RULES:

Raffle Begins: January 21 at 10am
Raffle Ends: February 18 at 10pm

  • $10 minimum donation per entry – Make Donation Here
    No limits on entries. $50 gets you 6 entries, $100 get you 14.
  • You can more than once. Enter away!
  • Only people who enter during the raffle period and mark their donation are eligible to win. See image below.
  • Winners will be chosen by random selection by drawing from a hat on video.
  • The winners will be announced here, on twitter (by @brewdega and @burgerandbrew), on ratebeer and facebook, and contacted via Twitter DM or email within 24 hours of contest completion.
  • Boxes will be shipped out within one week of contest completion. Will ship anywhere in lower 48 states.

When entering/donating, MAKE SURE to display your name on the donation list by using your BA handle — BA (Ex. burgerandbrew — BA) or RateBeer handle — (Ex. burgerandbrew — RB) or Twitter handle — T (Ex. burgerandbrew — T) or Name/BeerRaffle (Ashley — BR) for everything else.

by Reid Ramsay
Posted in Beer News, Sam Adams

Sam Adams To Officially Begin Canning

Boston Beer Company, makers of Samuel Adams, will begin canning soon.  Boston Lager and Summer Ale are among the first cans to roll off the line. Rumors of the cans started circulating last year, but no set date was announced. Jim Koch, has been on a quest to find the right can for the job. According to Boston.com, the can design has been tweaked as many as 6 times before arriving at the final design being used. Considerations for the right cans included lid design, lid opening, can linings, and more.

The equipment is on order, expect these cans by beach season.

by Reid Ramsay
Posted in Beer News, Full Sail Brewing

Full Sail Adds to Brewer’s Share Lineup

Did you know that February is Stout Month? Full Sail will be celebrating with the addition of Mathias’s Main Ingredient Oatmeal Stout, the newest addition to their Brewer’s Share experimental lineup. The beer, created by head chef Mathias Engblom, “has a smoothly rich, complex palate with notes of chocolate, toffee, and espresso.” In conjunction with this series, Full Sail donates a portion of these beer’s sales to a local charity of choice, with Mathias’s Main Ingredient sales going to VFW Post 4273 of Sandy, Oregon.

Style: Oatmeal Stout
Availability: on tap only
Arrival: coming soon

5.5% ABV 

by Reid Ramsay
Posted in Beer News, Big Boss Brewing, Cool Stuff, Videos

The Last Barfighter is the Best Video Game Ever [VIDEO]

Take all of your childhood memories of playing Street Fighter at the mall arcade and make them better the only way possible – by adding beer.

Meet The Beercade featuring The Last Barfighter, a 2 button and joystick video game that awards the winner a full pour of beer. A cold refreshing beer is way better than tickets, and definitely more awesome than your name on the high score list. The Beercade is now part of a marketing campaign for North Carolina’s Big Boss Brewing.

The entire machine was hand made from the arcade cabinet to the game itself. Expect to see it at special events in the near future.

by Reid Ramsay
Posted in Beer News, Mother Earth Brewing

Good Enviro Karma: Mother Earth Snags LEED Gold Certification

It comes as no surprise that brewery called Mother Earth would grab this designation. Mother Earth Brewing (Kinston, NC) is officially the first brewery in the United States to be awarded LEED® Gold certification status from the United States Green Building Council. It took three years of renovations to reduce the carbon footprint to do this.

There are three levels of certifications:  (Platinum, Gold and Silver). The entire program is voluntary. Building renovations since 2008 include:

installation of solar panels, recyclable carpet, eco-friendly tile, and insulation made of blue jeans.  Eco-flush toilets save hundreds of gallons of water each year, and run on rain water collected in a cistern.  The brewery also recycles everything from spent grain (feed for cattle) and the bags the grain comes in (converted to stylish shopping bags by local artisans) to the old wooden bourbon barrels the brewery uses for aging (converted to building materials and art pieces displayed throughout the facility).

Congratulations to brewery founders E. Trent Mooring and Stephen Hill!

[Press Release]

by Reid Ramsay