American Craft Beer Newswire

ACB covers craft beer news, entertainment and lifestyle 24/7, and we’d like to think we do a decent job. But there’s a lot of great craft beer journalism out there – and were constantly running into articles that we wished that we’d written.

So welcome to another ACB Newswire – recent articles that we’ve enjoyed – and thought you might as well.

Queen City Rules!

Fortune is one of the mainstream platforms that does a good job covering and they recently did a nice piece on piece on the growth of craft beer in Charlotte, North Carolina. In The Newest Hub for Craft Beer, Chris Morris is all over craft beer’s emergence in a great North Carolina city – and he hardly mentions Asheville at all.

Is Sam Adams Losing Its Craft Beer Cred? 

Another good article this week In Fortune over the weekend – this one about Boston Beer’s slowing growth. In Is Sam Adams too big to succeed in the craft world? John Knoll explores the downside of “doing well” in an increasingly competitive marketplace and the company’s strategy for staying relevant, as well as profitable, going forward….

And more Boston Beer considerations here.

Dogfish Head’s Sam Calagione Returns To The Spotlight

Noticeably missing in action the last few months, one of craft beer’s rock stars and Dogfish Head Founder, Sam Calagione, has been doing a lot of press lately. Noted beer scribe, Eric Gorski recently published an excellent Q & A with him for The Denver Post that created all kinds of industry buzz. You can learn about what he and a high school buddy are doing in Denver read what he thinks about craft beer growth and an overture from big beer.

And while we’re talking about Big Beer acquisitions there’s also this.

On The Fritz

Tom Rotunno covers the craft beer industry for CNBC and he always does a great job. But we found his recent article How Anchor Brewing changed the beer business particularly interesting – and we only wish we had thought to write it.

Brew Hub’s CEO Makes 3 Craft Beer Predictions

Tim Schoen, the CEO of Lakeland, Florida’s Brew Hub, a company that provides partnership brewing opportunities to existing breweries, has been in the beer business for over 34 years. And he recently sat with the Tampa Bay Business Journal and made 3 craft beer predictions.

And check out American Craft Beer’s Predictions For 2015  and More ACB Craft Beer Predictions while you’re at it.

There’s also this.