After teaming up with beer writer and historian Jordan St John, Toronto’s Muddy York Brewing Company is brewing a beer that first saw light of day 180-years-ago at Helliwell Brewery, one of Canada’s first. According to Muddy York, Jordan read the Helliwell brewing diaries and painstakingly analyzed them in the hopes of interpreting exactly how…
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Barefoot, the USA’s leading table wine brand owned by E&J Gallo, has announced it will enter the popular hard seltzer category with Barefoot Hard Seltzer, a hard seltzer made with wine. The brand will begin to roll out Barefoot Hard Seltzer nationwide in February 2020. Drawing off the success of Barefoot’s popular Barefoot Spritzer, award-winning winemaker…
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While the weather outside might be cold, freezing and snowing, the beer will still be pouring at this year’s Winter Craft Beer Festival in Toronto. According to the Daily Hive, the festival on 1 February, will highlight the craft brewers of Ontario. The festival will take place at Steam Whistle Brewing’s Roundhouse Park and will…
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Brewdog’s US chief revenue officer Adam Lambert tells Brewbound that there is room in the market for more nitrogenated craft beers. The Scottish-based company will come out in the first quarter a nitrogenated version of Jet Black Heart with espresso both on draft and in 16 oz cans. Other new products for 2020 include Brewdog’s…
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Nova Scotia’s first craft malt house and brewery has released a beer which should put a red glow in your winter’s day. Ridge Rosé, a farmhouse-inspired pale ale, has been sitting on Muscat grape skins for almost two months, giving the beer an amazing flavour and aroma, while souring the 5% ABV beer, says Horton…
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“2020 trends will be lower-calorie, lower-carb craft beers that still feature interesting features,” according to an interview in The Beer Connoisseur with Jim Koch of Boston Beer and Sam Calagione of Dogfish Head. The two major craft breweries merged last year, setting shock waves throughout the industry. “As a brewer and a beer drinker, I’ve…
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US beer giant Pabst Brewing, which is famed for its low-cost Pabst Blue Ribbon beer brand – known by fans as simply PBR – has launched a new craft beer brand, complete with a flagship beer ‘Seabird IPA’. Unlike most of the big brewers which do all they can to hide their ownership of a…
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Sounding more like the tree-character Groot in The Guardians of the Galaxy, gruit beer was made up of a combination of roots, flowers and herbs back in Europe’s Medieval period. Now, brewers on both sides of the Atlantic and Israel are either seeking to duplicate gruit, or to take the best of the style and…
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For all of you who still think there is nothing to this hard seltzer craze, think again. Brewbound reports that Mark Anthony Brands has selected Glendale, Arizona, as the location of its $250 million West Coast production facility. This in on top of $135 million being dropped on a new plant in New Jersey making…
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A Royal Navy pilot on a beer rescue mission in Australia found that locals in a town cut-off by bush fires were “extremely pleased” with the 20 kegs and four pallets of beer he delivered during a seven-hour mission. “The Australians like a beer, it turns out,” reported The Independent. According to PlymouthLive, Lieutenant Commander Nick…
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