From its small original location to now, Scottish independent craft brewer, BrewDog, continues to surprise all. While once upon a time its boast to be the world’s largest beer brand seemed to be 1am, too-many-pints, talk, it now seems to be on track to get there. In both North America and in the UK, it…
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Chicago-based beverage company Phusion Projects has launched a new Four Loko series. Called Innovation, it’s a 12% ABV hard seltzer, sold in 23.5-ounce single-serve cans, Brewbound reports. This is more than twice the most common alcoholic seltzers with range between 4-5% ABV. Before Four-Loko, one of the others exceptions has been Pabst’s Strong Seltzer at 8%…
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Carlsberg Group is working on what it says is the world’s first “paper” beer bottle made from sustainably sourced wood fibres, reports Pulp & Paper Canada. Carlsberg has unveiled two new research prototypes of its 100 per cent bio-based and fully recyclable Green Fibre Bottle, which are the first “paper bottles” to contain beer. Carlsberg…
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Glasgow-based craft beer delivery and subscription Brewgooder wants to partner with 500 breweries across the world to raise at least £250,000 ($321k/ CA$426k) to provide clean water to 100,000-plus people. Breweries will agreed to brew small-batch beers that will be released simultaneously on the weekend of 20-22 March 2020. These dates coincide with World Water…
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While small craft breweries have been the ones driving the beer industry, with hard seltzers it’s been the big breweries creating the market. Now Bud Light has come onboard with its new Bud Light Seltzer, which will be released early next year. The 100-calorie, 5% ABV seltzer will come in four flavours: black cheery, lemon…
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Newfoundland’s Quidi Vidi’s Iceberg beer has been chosen to represent Canada at the first NATO Association Beer Festival, reports CBC. The St John’s company beat breweries in Nova Scotia and Ontario for the top spot in an online vote. Justin Fong, Quidi Vidi’s head of marketing, is hoping the publicity will help spread the brewery’s…
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A US North Dakota brewery is using the space on its can to ‘advertise’ dogs from the local animal shelter that are in desperate need of a ‘forever home’. Fargo Brewing Company has partnered with 4 Luv of Dog Rescue to put the dog’s pictures on the cans. The dogs feature have a hard time…
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If you want to know what drink is becoming a consumer favourite, look no further that the US state of Kentucky were there are 9.1 million barrels of bourbon and aging spirts, according to VinePair. This is in a state with around 4.5 million people. Last Wednesday, the Kentucky Distillers’ Association (KDA) tweeted : “Terrific news! Kentucky…
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While it’s hard to see this keeping anyone awake on 31 December 2019 in pure excitement, Infuse Your Life Health Products will be launching next year its Pantheon non-alcoholic cardiovascular and antioxidant beer. The company says, in a story which broke in Brewbound and Infuse’s Facebook page, its non-alcoholic beer will have organic barley and…
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One of BC’s most popular craft brewers as announced on its website that it’s bringing back its Winter Beeracle for the winter season. The brewery says that this year’s brew is a smooth winter ale with a rich malt base and flavours of dark chocolate and orange. Hops are Centennial and Willamete, with Malts being…
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