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. (more…)

While the state’s unemployment rate stood around 12 percent entering this year, breweries, microbreweries and brew pubs from West Michigan to Detroit to Bellaire and Bay City are adding jobs, increasing production and investing in expansions and renovations totaling more than $70 million. (more…)

Australian craft brewers Little World Beverages have posted a 35.4 percent rise in half-year profit, and predicted full-year net profit before significant or non-recurring items would be as much as A$8.8 million (US$8.88 million). (more…)

Chicago’s biggest craft beer producer, Goose Island, is outgrowing its britches on the Near West Side. Fighting to keep up with growing demand as the craft beer market in the United States explodes, while still innovating and brewing new beverages, the company has reached a deal to outsource two of its beers to a brewery in New Hampshire. (more…)

A few weeks ago, I came across the Craft Brewers Alliance (Nasdaq: HOOK) as I was doing research on beer stocks. Though I’d never seen the company’s name before, I immediately recognized its flagship brands: Red Hook, Long Hammer, Goose Island, and Kona. That’s probably because I’m a devotee of the craft brew section of my local grocery store. (more…)

Boston Beer Company (BBC) known primarily through its flagship brand, Samuel Adams, is a simple to understand, highly profitable, and value-creating business with a trustworthy and capable management team. They are the largest and most successful of the small craft brewers, have a growing moat, generate plenty of free cash flow, and have no debt. (more…)

Fraserburgh beer company BrewDog yesterday revealed record sales on the back of the increasingly unquenchable global thirst for artisan beers, and revealed plans for four new BrewDog bars. (more…)

The expansion of the craft beer industry will mean not only more beer but more breweries. (more…)

O’Fallon Brewery is looking for investors to buy a stake in the business. (more…)

If you think launching your own microbrewery would be easy, consider Fort Worth’s Rahr & Sons. (more…)