A blog devoted to adventures, news, reviews and comments on wine, beer, spirits and more by former Newsday drinks writer Alan J. Wax. News and adventures in the drinks world.
Operating as usual
Brothers in beer in short supply
https://www.wsj.com/articles/trappist-beer-needs-trappist-monks-to-brew-it-but-the-vocation-is-dwindling-11615392562?mod=itp_wsj&mod=djemITP_h
Abbeys have fewer brothers these days, worrying those devoted to the high-end beers.
Mine is Slater's Golden Rabbit Nibbler. Would you drink it? What's your real ale name?
He put Long Island wines on the map.
Taco Bell's newest offering: wine.
https://www.cnn.com/2020/09/14/business/taco-bell-wine-canada/index.html
There's tons of cheese on Taco Bell's menu, so a wine to pair with it is a natural next step.
A good read on wine you probably never heard of: https://www.jpost.com/food-recipes/wine-talk-tears-of-bacchus-631903
Making wine is basically an investment in tomorrow. Planting a vineyard in lands of strife is a statement of hope.
On the blog.
I found a pleasant surprise recently rummaging through my wine cellar: a forgotten relic from my early days of covering the Long Island wine industry for Newsday.
Untappd’s Parent Company Acquires Beer Advocate | Brewbound
Two of the largest remaining beer rating platforms are joining forces. Next Glass, the parent company of popular beer rating app Untappd, has reached an agreement to acquire Beer Advocate. Financial terms of the transaction were not disclosed.
Another craft brewer acquired by Big Beer.
Detroit-based Atwater Brewery announced Wednesday a deal to be acquired by Molson Coors Beverage Co., the largest U.S. brewer. Terms of the deal were not disclosed Under the agreement, Atwater...
New owner for Anderson Valley Brewing.
Constellation Brands — the third-largest U.S. beer company — said Illinois-based Kings & Convicts Brewing would purchase the Ballast Point brands, along with its breweries and brewpubs throughout the country. Ballast Point’s $48 million brewing facility in Virginia was not included in the deal...
Japan's Kirin buys Fat Tire maker New Belgium!
https://www.denverpost.com/2019/11/19/new-belgium-brewing-sale-kirin/?fbclid=IwAR0_RtuTddYoBd7wwPIau092AAKisaa5tldySpldn6P2feSs7UE2eXcEW2I
More than 300 of New Belgium’s employee-owners will receive more than $100,000 in retirement money through the deal, with some receiving “significantly greater amounts,” according…
News out of Denver.
Craft brewing industry contributed $79.1 billion to the U.S. economy, responsible for 559,545 jobs (via the Brewers Association)
Founders Brewing goes Spanish
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Food, agricultural and agribusiness news for Grand Rapids, Kalamazoo, Battle Creek and the Lake Michigan shoreline.
On the shelf in Carrefour Express, Krakow, Poland.
Watching
Between this and Instagram testing hiding likes, there're a lot of people losing their sh*t right now. And it'll be interesting to see how this impacts Facebook beer trading groups. The new policy...
From baseball to brewing.
Kevin Youkilis is a legend in Boston for his time with the Red Sox, but you wouldn't know it by visiting his award-winning brewery in California
New on the blog.
I realized that recently while sampling the delightful wares of producer Lucien Albrecht with the producer’s winemaker, Jérôme Keller, in a New York City restaurant.
Sam Adams and Dogfish Head to merge
The cash and stock transaction, valued at approximately $300 million, combines two award-winning craft beer pioneers with unrivaled brewing expertise and portfolios of leading beer and “beyond beer” brands.
The Whiskey Advocate rates Big Box store private label Scotch and Bourbon
Yikes!
New president Chris Lampe, son of a cofounder, is bullish on the beermaker's new path.
Got a spare $18 million for an LI winery?
An upscale Long Island vineyard that was owned and operated by late Hollywood mogul Michael Lynne has been put up for sale with an asking price of $17.9 million, The Post has learned. Bedell Cellar…
https://libn.com/2019/03/21/bring-on-the-mead-ny-state-now-licensing-farm-meaderies/
New York State is offering new licenses to operate farms for the production of mead, an alcoholic beverage made by fermenting honey with water.
A new post in time for Chinese New Year.
Have you ever tasted baijiu (prounced bye-jyo)? Nevermind. Have you ever heard of it? Probably not. Neither had I, until recently.
Sierra Nevada Makes First-Ever Acquisition, Buys Fast-Growing Sufferfest Beer | Brewbound.com
Sierra Nevada Brewing Company, ranked by industry trade group the Brewers Association as the third largest U.S. craft brewery, today announced the purchase of San Francisco-based Sufferfest Beer Company. Financial terms of the deal were not disclosed, and the transaction is expected to close in earl...
Hoist a toast of whisky today to Scottish poet Robert Burns.
Japan's Asahi buys UK's Fuller's
Asahi Group Holdings Ltd. agreed to buy Fuller, Smith & Turner Plc’s brewing business for $330 million, showing that despite business angst about Brexit, there’s still international demand for those most British of products -- ale and cider.
Black Sheep aged beer fest
A wild ale, a maibock and a stout-barleywine blend walk into a bar... Well, they won't so much walk into a bar as roll in, inside the casks in which they were aged. And on the evening of Thursday, Jan
Do your buy your wine out of state?
The justices will hear oral arguments in a contentious case involving whether consumers can order from out-of-state wine shops.
Six Point Brewery sold
After four years of discussions with Sixpoint Brewery founder Shane Welch, Artisanal Brewing Ventures (ABV) finally completed a deal to purchase 100 percent of his Brooklyn-based craft brewery this week. Even though ABV had been courting Sixpoint for several years, it wasn’t until this summer when negotiations really began to heat up, John Coleman, CEO of ABV, told Brewbound.
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northforker
It's a lot of hard work, but Pat Alfred is having fun as the head brewer at Greenport Harbor Brewing co. The proof is in the beer.
AB InBev-SABMiller deal finalized
Man, remember when Anheuser-Busch InBev announced it was buying SABMiller for $100 billion back in 2016? Well the acquisition finally got approved like a week ago. United States District Court Judge Emmet Sullivan approved the merger by signing what’s called a Modified Final Judgment. Basically, the Department of Justice and ABI negotiated some modifications to the consent decree to try in theory to wrangle in the ever-expanding girth of ABI.
R.I.P. Beer the Magazine
All About Beer magazine was founded in 1979 and documented the entire history of craft brewing in America. Sadly, it looks like it will never reach its 40th anniversary.
AB affiliated Craft Brewers Alliance buys 3 brewers: Cisco, Wynwood, Appalachian.
Craft Brew Alliance’s nearly four-year-long strategy of partnering with smaller brands has officially culminated with three separate purchase agreements that, combined, will cost the company less than $45 million. CBA, a publicly traded craft brewery group headquartered in Portland, Ore., today an...
Former Long Island winemaker shows Texans how it's done. https://www.texasmonthly.com/food/southolds-regan-meador-takes-texas-wine-new-direction/
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