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More great news for craft beer. The Brewers Association announced today that dollar growth for craft beer is up 14% over the first half of this year. For the same period, volume was also up 12%. From the press release: “Generally, most craft brewers are continuing to see strong growth in production, sales, brewing capacity [...]

Yesterday, Firestone Walker Brewing announced that it’s selling Nectar Ales to Total Beverage Solution of South Carolina. Nectar Ales was originally a line of beers brewed by Humboldt Brewing Company. The brewery was founded by Mario Celotto in 1987 in Humboldt County, California. Celotto was a linebacker with the Oakland Raiders. Shortly after being part [...]

By now you’ve already seen the news that Anheuser-Busch InBev has taken another step closer to realizing their quest for world domination in the beer business. They’d already owned half of Mexican powerhouse brewer Grupo Modelo — makers of Corona, among other brands — but it was non-voting stock and they asserted very little control [...]

vs. Wow! Just wow. Anyone paying attention knows that the corporate world doesn’t like to play fair if they can get away with it, and they usually can. They bigger they are, the more resources they command, the easier it is to bully, cajole and generally get their way. It gives them an unfair advantage, [...]

This is my sixth annual annotated list of the Top 50 so you can see who moved up and down, who was new to the list and who dropped off. So here is this year’s list again annotated with how they changed compared to last year. Anheuser-Busch InBev; #1 last six years, no surprises MillerCoors; [...]

The Brewers Association has also just announced the top 50 breweries in the U.S. based on sales, by volume, for 2011. This includes all breweries, regardless of size or other parameters. Here is the new list: Anheuser-Busch InBev; St Louis MO MillerCoors; Chicago IL Pabst Brewing; Woodridge IL D. G. Yuengling and Son; Pottsville PA [...]

Regular Bulletin readers know how much I love infographics, a marriage of data and graphic illustration that shows information in a beautiful and understandable way. So I was thrilled when I got an e-mail this morning from a new Silicon Valley start-up, Visual.ly, whose mission is just that, to create and help others create cool [...]

Amid recent rumors, the Tenth and Blake Beer Company, the craft-and-import division MillerCoors created last year, announced today that they’re purchasing Crispin Cider, which includes both the Crispin and Fox Barrel hard cider brands. From the press release: Minneapolis-based Crispin sold its first cases on St. Crispin’s Day, October 25, 2008. The company grew approximately [...]