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Welcome to the first Rumor Mill of the New Year…As we ready ourselves for all that’s soon to come in the new year, Rumor Mill remains on the case to keep you plugged into all the craft beer news that matters. Plus we’ve an all-important update on what we’ve been drinking in the first week of 2015 and you don’t want to miss that.
The Beer Name Game Tightens (Everywhere, USA) – It’s becoming increasingly difficult in 2015 to come up with a name for your new beer that hasn’t already been taken by somebody, somewhere… “Virtually every large city, notable landscape feature, creature, and weather pattern of North America — as well as a myriad of other words, concepts and images — has been snapped up and trademarked as the name of either a brewery or a beer” according to NPR, and, with more than 3,000 breweries currently online, “finding names for beers, or even themselves, is increasingly hard to do without risking a legal fight.”
Boston Magazine Dumps on Jim Koch (Boston, MA) – We’ve received a deluge of messages earlier this week all abuzz about a recent profile piece on Samuel Adams Founder & CEO Jim Koch in Boston Magazine. Wasted – How the craft-beer movement abandoned Jim Koch (and his beloved Sam Adams) paints a rare and somewhat uncomplimentary portrait of the self-made craft beer billionaire and is surprisingly snide towards an entrepreneur who has created so much opportunity in the city of Boston. Hey, nobody’s perfect (and we at ACB understand that better than most) – but the piece clearly had an agenda – and Jim Koch deserved better.
Ft. Collins Craft Beer Scene Booming (Fort Collins, CO) – For a city its size, Fort Collins is clearly a craft beer mecca – and it just keeps getting better. “With 16 different breweries in operation and more in the works, the city now has a brewery for every Fort Collins resident,” according to Collegian Central. Since 2010, nine new breweries have opened in the area, and five of those were in the last five months!
What We’ve Been Drinking Lately (Washington, DC) – We’d like to thank all of the American craft breweries who shipped us beer in 2014. It’s been great to sample the brews that we write about and it helps us have a better feel for what’s happening out there. We’ve been drinking nothing but winter seasonals lately and last night, we got into some trouble with something new from Elysian. Bifrost Winter Ale is a 7.6% ABV winter seasonal that’s refreshingly more like a Northwest Pale Ale than it is a Winter Warmer.
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