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Hey it’s Wednesday and it’s Rumor Mill Time…Monday’s announcement that Green Flash Brewing had acquired an iconic boutique brewery sent ripples throughout the craft beer community. We’ve more details on that merger as well as other things breaking right now in the world of craft beer. Plus we’ve an all-important update on what we’ve been drinking lately.
We don’t sleep so you can….THIS WEEK’S RUMOR MILL IS ON!
Doomtree Gets Surly (Minneapolis, MN) – Surly’s a brewery not afraid to shred things up. Doomtree’s a Twin Cities hip-hop collective known for their music and mayhem. So why wouldn’t they work on a collaboration beer together? Surly Doomtree will make its debut at the band’s final Blowout Tour date in December, but Todd Haug, the Head of Brewing Operations at Surly, is not giving up the beer’s style.
Two Breweries…One Company (San Diego, CA) – As we posted yesterday, Green Flash Brewing acquired the popular boutique brewery Alpine Beer on Monday and will begin bottling their much-in-demand beers in 2015. Green Flash, which looks to produce 65,000 barrels of beer by the end of 2014, is almost 20 times larger and this union will allow Alpine to increase both their production and their reach.
Newport Boy Makes Good (Washington, DC) – The Beer Institute, a national trade association for the American brewing industry, has announced that Rogue Ale’s CEO, Brett Joyce, will be joining that organization’s board of directors.
What We’ve Been Drinking Lately (Washington, DC) – We’d like to thank all of the American craft breweries who ship us beer from time to time. It’s great to be able to sample the brews that we write about and it helps us have a better feel for what’s happening out there. Last night, the temperature in DC dropped like 20 degrees, so it was a perfect time to try the new winter seasonal we just received from Gordon Biersch. First brewed to sustain fasting monks in the eleventh century, Gordon Biersch WinterBock is a classic, dark 7.5% ABV Double Bock featuring four different types of malt. This is a big beer with a lot of body, and is available seasonally from November through January.
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