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“Category 6: Pumpkin/Squash Beer,” read Great American Beer Festival competition director Chris Swersey during the 2016 medal ceremony. “The Bronze: Butt-Ah Nut from BTU Brasserie in Portland, Oregon.”Swersey paused before continuing, then dropped the news: “No other medals were awarded in this category.”

Swersey paused before continuing, then dropped the news: “No other medals were awarded in this category.”

The crowd of brewers in the Bellco Theatre during the 2016 Great American Beer Festival groaned. Swersey, the calm, often-melodic emcee of the beer industry’s biggest prize glanced briefly from his awards announcement at the crowd. “The judges wanted to send a clear message about following the style guidelines,” he said, and then continued to announce the next category.

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No silver or gold awarded for the Pumpkin/Squash category — is that possible? Can they do that? Even Swersey, speaking to me a couple weeks after the competition said it seemed rare for judges to omit two of the three medals in a category.

EVERETT, MA – October 31, 2016 – Down The Road Beer Company is pleased to announce the Patchwork Kilt Scottish Ale, the newest addition to the company’s session beer lineup. This malt-forward beer is hauntingly complex with deep, rustic notes of dried fruit and fresh honey. Patchwork Kilt clocks in at 4.5% ABV, the perfect balance for taking the edge off without losing your wits. This Ale pours a dark copper with a creamy head. The nose is thick and almost bready with a faint hint of currants. On the palate, Kilt is smooth, almost silky, with a delicate, honeyed sweetness that gives way to roasty malt and a homely smokiness.

Each beer from Down The Road draws on a character from folklore often with an emphasis on the region from which the brew originates. The Patchwork Kilt is an homage to a ghost story, the Headless Drummer of Edinburgh Castle, perfect given its Halloween! .

The Patchwork Kilt was brewed under contract at Dorchester Brewing Company in Dorchester, MA. This is the first beer Down The Road has brewed at Dorchester Brewing Company, Boston’s first and only dedicated partnership brewing facility. In response to strong customer demand for its Fresh, Local and Inspired beer, Down The Road will be opening its own Taproom and Brewery in Everett, MA in early 2017 and is also expanding its contract brewing relationships. The company hopes to brew additional styles at Dorchester Brewing Company later this year while maintaining its existing brewing relationships. Down The Road will be the first Brewing Partner for Dorchester Brewing which opened in July 2016.

To celebrate this partnership and the release of Down the Road’s Patchwork Kilt Scottish Ale, the companies are hosting a release party at Dorchester Brewing Company at 1250 Massachusetts Avenue in Dorchester on Friday, November 4th from 6-11pm. The event will include complimentary traditional Scottish fare from The Haven in Boston, as well as Down the Road Beer merchandise specials. Partners from Down the Road will be on hand to serve up the Kilt. For more information about the event, visit www.downtheroadbrewery.com or www.dorchesterbrewing.com. Starting this week, the Patchwork Kilt will be sold at retail stores throughout eastern Massachusetts in 16oz cans and on tap at select establishments.

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PAST WEEK ARRIVALS:

Almanac Grand Cru Red
Almanac Grand Cru White
Brew Rebellion Blackberry Tart Sour Ale
Green Flash Ideal Belgique
Guinness Antwerpen Stout
Modern Times Haunted Stars Imperial Rye Porter
New Holland Dragon’s Milk Reserve Coconut Rum Barrel Stout
Ommegang Three Philosophers with Strawberry & Cranberry
Paradox Skully No. 43 Vanilla Peaches
Paradox Skully No. 44 Mangozacca
Paradox Skully No. 45 Salty Melons
Petrus Sour Quad
SKA Cru d’Etat Sour Ale
Stone 10th Anniversary IPA (Encore Series)
Stone 5th Anniversary IPA (Encore Series)
Stone Mint Coffee Milk Stout
Unibroue Megadeth A Tout Le Monde

After Voting, Chill at Election Day Safe Haven at Saint Arnold

HOUSTON, November 1, 2016 – Saint Arnold Brewing Co. (www.saintarnold.com) is encouraging everyone to vote and then head to the brewery, which will serve as a safe haven on Election Day. The oldest craft brewery in Texas will open its doors on Tuesday, November 8th, for Election Day Safe Haven at Saint Arnold, providing voters a sanctuary from politics. Not to be confused with the election night gatherings thrown by the political parties, Election Day Safe Haven at Saint Arnold will be a strictly unplugged affair.

Election Day Safe Haven at Saint Arnold will start at 11 a.m. at Saint Arnold Brewing Co., 2000 Lyons Avenue in Houston, and continue until after polls close on the West Coast. It will serve as a TV-free zone and feature beer specials and stickers for voters proclaiming, “I Survived Election Day 2016.” Voters over age 21 who show proof of voting can purchase their first pint for $1.

“We encourage everyone to vote, and after voting, the most important public service we can offer is a place for voters to shelter in place away from the stress, anxiety and talking heads,” said Lennie Ambrose, Saint Arnold Director of Marketing and Events. “Beer has a long history of bringing people together and fostering a sense of kinship, commonality and community, which is what Election Day Safe Haven at Saint Arnold is all about.”

Pollsters say feelings of stress and anxiety are shared by both political parties. A recent Pew Research Center survey of more than 4,500 adults found that nearly 60 percent of Americans on social media are stressed out by online political interactions. More than a third of social media users are “worn out” by the amount of political content they encounter. The sense of being worn out is not a partisan phenomenon – 38 percent of Democrats and 37 percent of Republicans describe themselves that way.

Santa Fe, New Mexico – Santa Fe Brewing Company (SFBC) is excited to announce that they have transitioned all of their everyday beers to cans, discontinuing all 12 oz. bottle packages effective immediately. This transition comes with other big news for the longest tenured brewery in New Mexico – the addition of a state-of-the-art canning line from manufacturer Catelli Food Technology (CFT).

Switching from bottles to cans was a decision to increase capacity, reliability, and quality, but SFBC couldn’t do it without an equipment upgrade. SFBC began canning back in 2010 with the release of their flagship Happy Camper IPA in 12-ounce cans, but their equipment and processes had limitations. Their new CFT Master Can Tronic RS 16 does many things the previous canning line and bottling lines could not, such as minimizing oxygen pickup to Mega Brewer levels. Reducing oxygen pick up increases shelf stability, resulting in beer that stays fresh longer.

Cans are superior to bottles in many other facets as well. The lighter weight of the cans means less expensive shipping and fewer shipments, reducing the brewery’s carbon footprint. They are also more portable and a better choice when recreating outdoors.

“The quality is much better with cans. You may not recognize the State Pen Porter, Pale Ale, or Nut Brown by their new package, but you will definitely remember your favorites by taste,” says SFBC owner Brian Lock.

Brewmaster Bert Boyce had this to say about the new line. “We can produce five times the number of cans per minute than we could previously. We can easily change over to a different style to meet more complicated needs. And the new line should be much more reliable from an uptime and quality perspective. Right now the canning line is purring along at about 140 cans per minute, but will able to fill much faster as the demand for our beers continues to grow.”

VICTOR, ID – Grand Teton Brewing Company, known throughout the West for their exceptional craft brews, is proud to announce the release of Coming Home 2016 Holiday Ale, the final release in their 2016 Cellar Reserve series.
Grand Teton Brewing’s intent for their annual Coming Home Holiday Ale series is to release a special beer in November for enjoyment with special friends on a special occasion during the holiday. This year’s version is an American-Style Rye Wine brewed with Southern Idaho 2-row pale malted barley combined with German rye and specialty malts. This produces a mahogany to dark ruby red color, generous malt body and peppery spiciness.

The spicy rye is complemented by about five pounds of bold American hops per barrel. Chinook and Galena hops developed and grown in Idaho, along with Idaho-grown Bravos give this strong ale a decidedly American flavor.

Piney floral hops are evident when Coming Home is enjoyed fresh. Cellaring will enable these flavors to mellow, allowing the malt to shine with additional notes of raisin and fig.

Alcohol by Volume: 10.0% • Original Gravity (Plato): 21˚ P
International Bitterness Units: 75 • Color (Lovibond): 25˚

Coming Home 2016 Holiday Ale will be available November 1, 2016 in bottle-conditioned 12/750 mL cases1/6 and 1/2 bbl kegs.
Grand Teton Brewing was founded in 1988 as the first modern “micro” brewery in Wyoming. Their premium microbrews include the 15x Gold Medal Winning Bitch Creek ESB; 2014 Great American Beer Festival Silver Medal Winner 208 Session Ale; 2009 Great American Beer Festival Gold Medal Winner Sweetgrass APA; and, favorites of the Yellowstone and Grand Teton National Parks Old Faithful Ale, Howling Wolf Weisse Bier and Amber Ale. From their production facility in Victor, Idaho, Grand Teton Brewing beers are handcrafted from only the finest ingredients, including locally grown grains, Idaho grown hops and pure Teton Mountain spring water. Discriminating beer drinkers can find their favorite Grand Teton Brewing brews on tap and in bottles throughout California, Colorado, Idaho, northern Illinois, Kansas, Minnesota, Missouri, Montana, Nevada, North Dakota, North Carolina, South Carolina, South Dakota, Washington, Wisconsin and Wyoming.
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(Milton, DE) – Dogfish Head is delivering double the delight this holiday season with the release of two dark and delicious, winter seasonal stouts. Beer for Breakfast, a tricked out full-bodied stout, and World Wide Stout, a roasty, ageable port-like brew, will be available for hearty enjoyment in limited supply beginning November 7th.

Beer for Breakfast serves up a smorgasbord of thoughtfully sourced ingredients for the blue plate aficionado, all of which are to be savored in this flavorfully robust, cozy stout. Coffee, brown sugar, maple syrup, and a myriad of additional yummy ingredients provide a good mornin’ foundation for this breakfast themed, feast of a brew. The iconic star of the Beer for Breakfast stout is Rapa Scrapple – a classic Mid-Atlantic staple to the most important meal of the day. Scrapple is affectionately described as an ‘everything but the kitchen sink’ type of meat as it’s a patty made from pork scraps, cornmeal and spices. “The recipe for our original breakfast beer Chicory Stout, just turned 21 this year. Legal drinking age. To mark this momentous occasion we have taken a couple decades experience brewing with culinary goodness and combined our favorite pure, all-natural breakfast ingredients into a beer that we will think you will agree is the most important meal of the day,” said Sam Calagione, Dogfish Head founder and president. Clocking in at 7.4% ABV and 30 IBU’s, dark beer aficionados will enjoy the aromatic notes of coffee and smoke, subtle maple and spice.

Rich, roasty and complex, World Wide Stout is arriving for an encore just in time for winter coziness this holiday season. Brewed with a bulk-ton of barley, this ageable ale clocks in at 15-20% ABV and has a depth more in line with a fine port or a rich madeira. World Wide debuted in the winter of 1999, and the staying power of this brew is indisputable. “Like Fort and 120 Minute IPA, World Wide Stout only gets better in its golden years. Allow it to mature in your beer cellar and you’ll find the heat of the booze fades into the background and the port notes and roastiness take over and merge harmoniously into a timeless aged ale”, said Calagione.

Beer for Breakfast and World Wide Stout will be available on taps and retail shelves in D.C. and the 30 states that currently provide delicious DFH beers. Savor these stouts with someone you love. For more information, visit dogfish.com.

Nashville, TN – Black Belle Imperial Stout, a limited-edition collaboration between Blackstone Brewing Company and Nelson’s Green Brier® Distillery, returns for the 2016 Holiday season. Infused with cacao nibs and aged for eight months in bourbon barrels, the beer is smooth and sweet, with notes of bourbon, oak, and dark chocolate.

The 2016 limited run, 22-oz. bottles will be available in select liquor stores beginning November 25. Black Belle will be offered on draft at select locations in Tennessee. This is the third year the collaboration beer has been created using Green Brier Distillery’s Belle Meade Bourbon® barrels.

“We are excited to offer Back Belle Imperial Stout for the third year,” said Kent Taylor, owner of Blackstone Brewing Company. “We put a crazy amount of effort into making this beer and it shows. With the help from our friends at Nelson’s Green Brier Distillery and their amazing Belle Meade Bourbon, this is hands down the best beer that we make!”

In July, Blackstone Brewing Company opened The Taphouse, a new taproom located inside the brewery at 2312 Clifton Avenue in Nashville. Sixteen draft selections are available Monday through Friday 4pm to 8pm, Saturday, 12pm to 8:00pm and Sunday, 12pm to 6:00pm. A limited menu of pub fare is also available.

About Blackstone Brewing Company:
Blackstone Brewing Company™, established in 1994, is Nashville’s oldest craft brewery. Craft beers HopJack®, Session Player™, Chaser Pale®, Nut Brown Ale, APA, Black Forest™, Adam Bomb®, St. Charles Porter®, and Barista Brew® are brewed in the state-of-the-art brewing and bottling facility located at 2312 Clifton Ave Nashville TN. St. Charles Porter® is the most award-winning Brown Porter at the Great American Beer Festival with an amazing eight wins. Chaser Pale® and Nut Brown Ale have also been awarded medals at both the Great American Beer Festival and The World Beer Cup. Visit www.blackstonebeer.com for additional information.

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(Stratford, CT) – Two Roads Brewing Company of Stratford, CT today announced the expansion of their brewing campus with the planned addition of a 25,000 square foot sour and barrel-aging brewery. Situated on 2.5 acres of newly acquired land adjoining the existing brewery, this $12 million facility will feature a 50 barrel ROLEC brewhouse, foudres, a coolship, and storage for 2000 wood barrels. It will also have a tasting room that can accommodate 120 visitors overlooking a wetlands preserve.

Two Roads CEO Brad Hittle said, “with our sour beer program growing and gaining accolades, including the recent gold medal for our Hexotic brand in the Belgian Style Lambic or Sour category at the Great American Beer Festival, and with our existing brands growing rapidly, we felt this was the right time to expand into a new facility. This will increase our overall capability to produce unique, rare and delicious beers while protecting our main brewery from any wild yeast cross-contamination.”

Partner Phil Markowski also highlighted that his new role as Master Brewer will remove him from the day-to-day brewing operations at Two Roads and will free up his time to fully concentrate on new product development as well as quality and brewing innovations at both brewing facilities. “I couldn’t be more proud about our beers and my team of brewers, and am extremely excited about this new horizon for Two Roads and for me personally. Having a first-class barrel aging and souring brewery at my hands is a dream come true,” Markowski commented.

[BeerPulse Note: Our e-retail partner, CraftShack, currently offers Two Roads / Evil Twin Geyser Gose through its online web shop.]

Traverse City, MI, October 28, 2016 – As the weather gets colder and some craft beer drinkers gravitate towards darker beers, Right Brain Brewery is happy to greet them with Naughty Girl Mint Stout six-packs. Naughty Girl Stout, previously available only in 22 oz bottles and on draft, takes inspiration from a well-known mint chocolate cookie, delivering complex chocolate notes with a cooling minty finish.

“Right Brain Brewery adheres to a strict ‘no extracts’ brewing policy, and Naughty Girl Stout is no exception. Six malt varieties, including Roast Barley and Chocolate Malts, provide the chocolaty notes. Biodynamic Peppermint grown by Light of Day Organics provides an authentic mint flavor,” says owner Russell Springsteen. Right Brain Sales and Marketing teams are very excited about this release, both in terms of increased shelf space presence, and the fun creative design of packaging. “Our designer created four different labels for Naughty Girl Stout, each with a different girl scout riding on a motorcycle. Consumers can expect to get multiple versions in our new six pack offering,” says Marketing Coordinator Jeff Houser.

The Biodynamic Peppermint used in Naughty Girl Stout is not the only product Right Brain has used from Light of Day Organics Farm. The brewery also sources certified Biodynamic Lavender for use in their light lavender ale, Blue Magic. Angela Macke, a Registered Nurse and Founder of Light of Day, says, “We have been fans of Right Brain and their talented team for many years, so to partner on these projects has been very satisfying and a whole lot of fun for our farm family! The botanicals we grow here are exceptionally high in essential oils, making them a treasured compliment to their already high quality beer.” Demeter Biodynamic is considered the highest standard for commercially grown food throughout the world, and Light of Day Organics, located in Leelanau County, is currently the only certified Demeter Biodynamic Farm in the state of Michigan.

Naughty Girl Stout is available now throughout the state of Michigan in 12 oz six-pack bottles, 22 oz bottles and on draft.

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San Diego Beer Week is almost here, and Coronado Brewing Company is ready to go with a full calendar of events. The company has dozens of beer happenings planned throughout San Diego County, including beer dinners, tap takeovers, pint nights, and two hosted events at its main brewery in Bay Park. “We look forward to San Diego Beer Week each year and we’ve brewed a ton of specialty beers to showcase at key events,” says Ryan Brooks, Brewmaster, Coronado Brewing Company. “I’m especially excited for people to try our new Guava Islander IPA, North Island IPA, and some of the small-batch brews from our pub on Coronado.”

The company is debuting two new events at its main brewery; the first event is Milled, Chilled & Jelly Filled—a beer, donut, and coffee pairing event on Saturday, November 5. Coronado partnered with Nomad Donuts to create a custom flight of mini donuts paired with special releases, including Early Bird Mocha Stout—a milk stout made with cold-brew from neighboring Bird Rock Roasters. $20 gets you five mini donuts and five, 5oz beer pairings; no tickets required.

The second hosted event is BYOBib—a seafood boil and beer event on Friday, November 11. Local food truck favorite, Big Front Door, will be onsite preparing an authentic seafood boil to be paired with custom beer flights and pints. Bibs will be provided and guests are encouraged to roll up their sleeves and dive into pots of seafood spread out on butcher-paper lined communal tables. No tickets are required; beer and seafood boil available for purchase from 5pm-closing.

Coronado Brewing is also participating in several events throughout the county, including San Diego Brewers Guild two capstone events: San Diego Brewers Guild Festival and The Beer Garden at the Lodge at Torrey Pines. The company will also host a keep-the-glass pint night at its Coronado Pub starting this Friday. For more information about Coronado Brewing’s complete list of San Diego Beer Week events, visit www.coronadobrewing.com/sdbw. Stay coastal. Cheers.

Rogue Farms in Independence, Oregon, is a little like Santa’s workshop for hop lovers. You can walk through hop fields, watch the harvest during the late summer months and bask in that beautiful nose tingling, palate watering hop aroma — and it’s all about 75 miles from Rogue’s brewery in Newport.

Rogue President Brett Joyce says the 2008 global hop crisis was the impetus that got them thinking long term about being more self-reliant in terms of ingredients.

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“If you believe necessity is the mother of invention, then this is a case study in that,” he says. “It was really at that point that we wanted to make sure we didn’t have to tell our brewmaster, whose nickname is ‘More Hops,’ that we didn’t have more hops, or the hops he wanted, to put into our beer.”

Rogue Farms was born and they began farming the land in 2008.

Highly recognized craft brewery to benefit from track and trace capabilities of best-of-breed warehousing solution

MINNEAPOLIS (Oct. 26, 2016) — HighJump, a global provider of supply chain network solutions, announced today that Founders Brewing Co. has selected the HighJump™ Brewer’s Edge warehouse management solution (WMS). Founders Brewing Co., based in Grand Rapids, Mich., is a top-rated craft brewery that prides itself on making complex, flavorful ales.

Sustainable growth spanning over the past 10 years led the company to seek a WMS to replace its paper-based processes and streamline operations in its 190,000 square-foot distribution center. After evaluating several WMS solution providers, Founders Brewing Co. selected to partner with HighJump because of its dedicated focus on the craft brewing industry and its seamless integration with Orchestrated Beer built on SAP Business One.

HighJump Brewer’s Edge WMS is a specialized configuration of the HighJump AccellosOne WMS, specifically designed to provide a template-based implementation for craft breweries.

Implementing the HighJump Brewer’s Edge WMS will provide Founders Brewing Co. an extra layer of track and trace capabilities for non-batch inventory items, such as glass. In addition to achieving real-time inventory control and increased efficiency, the craft brewery is also looking forward to utilizing the solution’s keg tracking abilities to gain control of its currently unmanaged keg operations.

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On Friday, November 11, Iron Hill Brewery & Restaurant founders Kevin Finn, Mark Edelson and Kevin Davies will celebrate their 20th year in business with a festive company-wide toast at all 12 locations in Pennsylvania, Delaware and New Jersey. At 5 p.m., guests will enjoy a complimentary 8-oz. pour of Ferrous: Fe20 Anniversary Ale, a Brett Saison brewed exclusively for the celebration. In Newark, DE, their first location, all three owners will be on hand and will be joined by elected officials and state dignitaries. Ferrous: Fe20 Anniversary Ale was brewed exclusively for the 20th anniversary by Director of Brewery Operations Mark Edelson on site at the original Newark brewpub.

Starting at 4 p.m., all 12 Iron Hill locations, including Iron Hill Newark, will offer a very special tap takeover featuring eight of their most award-winning beers – all eight medal-winners on draft at one location, for the first time ever. The tap takeover will highlight Iron Hill’s first 20 years in business, while celebrating their future growth and expansion up and down the East Coast as the largest and fastest-growing collection of brewpubs in the Mid-Atlantic region.

The eight award-winning beers are all medal-winners from either the Great American Beer Festival (GABF) or World Beer Cup (WBC). These special and prized beers will be featured for a limited time across Iron Hill’s collection of breweries and restaurants and will include:

Russian Imperial Stout, a full-bodied stout that starts with a complex, malt-y sweet, high-roasted character, balanced with the use of citrus-y American hops
2003 GABF gold; 2006 GABF gold; 2006 WBC bronze; 2010 GABF gold; 2010 WBC gold; 2011 GABF silver; 2012 WBC gold; 2012 GABF bronze; 2013 GABF silver; 2014 WBC gold; 2015 GABF silver; 2016 WBC silver

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(Stratford, CT) – Two Roads Brewing of Stratford, CT will release their newest beer in the “Road Less Traveled” series in early November. Named Bog Wild, the beer is a tart cranberry sour made with fresh cranberry juice and spices.

Brewed using a mixed fermentation process including Lactic and Belgian yeast strains with two varietals of cranberries sourced from a local juicery–Bog Wild is an excellent addition to any holiday table. The two cranberry varietals, Howe and Early Black, come from nearby juice maker RIPE and were chosen for their exceptional flavor and deep color. When combined with a blend of spices including caraway and coriander, this mixture brings out the fresh tartness of the cranberries and creates a beautiful balance.

“RIPE helped us source the cranberries and processed them exactly the way we wanted. The cranberries are 100% traceable in origin, having come directly from the growers in Massachusetts,” said Two Roads Master Brewer Phil Markowski. “At our request they retained the seeds and skins of the cranberries after being pressed in order to contribute additional complexity to the brew. The seeds and skins provide soft tannins that add nuance and structure similar to winemaking methods.”

Bog Wild is 6.5% ABV and will be available in early November in 750mL bottles and limited draft.

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(Dallas, TX) – Join us this Saturday, November 5 for the SECOND BrainDead Brewing Festicle. One Saturday each year, we take over our parking lot to release our coveted 2016 red wine barrel-aged Bent de Garde (our biere de garde) and bourbon barrel-aged Hammer of the Gods (our Imperial Wheat Porter) in 750mL bottles.

Festicle is a celebration of barrel-aged and wild beers. We’ll be pouring 60+ rare beers from 35 of our favorite breweries!

Grab your bottles from 11am-4pm (before or during the event). Bottle Hoarders may enter at 12:30pm, Bottle VIP at 1pm, and General Admission at 2pm. You can also expect delicious food from our upcoming restaurant, Bowls & Tacos and Chef David will offer smoked meats from his smoker toy, Jolly.

Members from the Brain Injury Network of Dallas (BIND) will be onsite pouring beers, and a portion of the proceeds will directly benefit this local 501(c)3 charity. Drink beer, and do some good at the same time!

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(Sarasota, FL) – In the near future, JDub’s beers will be available in Georgia. JDub’s is currently interviewing distributors in the Peach State and we hope to be on shelves in stores and on draft lines soon. Recent IRI data gives us optimism for the expansion, which shows that over the past month, JDub’s is the #1 selling Florida craft brewery amongst all beers sold in Florida liquor stores. (IRI sales data snippet available upon request) Moreover, we have already built a solid relationship with Kroger that will be a focus of ours moving into the new territory.

“Kroger is a giant account, for any brewer in America. We’ve been eager to get our beers in the Kroger stores for a long time and are thrilled to roll up our sleeves and being working with them. They truly ‘get’ craft beer.” Jeremy “JDub” Joerger

Bell Cow Milk Chocolate Porter. JDub’s is thrilled to announce that due to a high-demand for our Nitro version of Bell Cow Milk Chocolate Porter, we have decided to discontinue production of the CO2 version in draft form and from this point forward, will only produce Nitro Bell Cow on draft. For the foreseeable future, canned Bell Cow will still be in CO2 form. Feedback similar to the comments below gives us confidence this will be a good move for the brewery:

“Reserving a nitro line for J Dubs’ Bell Cow was a great decision for our locations,” said Legends’ owner Jim Burdo. “It has quickly become a staple of our draft lineup. Guest feedback has been overwhelmingly positive. Bell Cow has out performed our 2nd nitro line 3 to 1.” – Pat Murphy & Jim Burdo, Legends Pub and Tap 72, Sarasota, FL