SweetWater – Canning Line Arrives & VA, DC, MD, MS, OH & TX Distribution

From SweetWater:

We got a care package from our German friends at Krones this week that brings us one step closer to beaches and pools everywhere – our can filler! This monster mamajammer is gonna be a bitch to install, but once she’s up and running we’ll be slingin our heady brews in aluminum. Goal is to have 420 and IPA rollin by mid-March, so fingers crossed!

Second Helping IPA

Our collaboration brew with The Giving Kitchen has been a huge hit, helping raise a ton of money for their awesome cause. Doesn’t hurt it’s mighty tasty too – a double IPA brewed with two helpings of juniper berries and a variety of 10 different malts and hops. It pairs well with most dishes, and chefs all over town are whippin’ up special servings featuring the beer.

17th Anniversary Ale

We’re doin’ things a little different for our anniversary ale this year by unleashing a big-ass 9% ABV Saison. If you’re not familiar with the style, Saisons are known as farmhouse ales because they were originally brewed in barns for farm hands. The nature of brewin’ outdoors means some funky yeast can fall in, so prepare for this one to be a little more complex than you’re used to. Of course we put our own SweetWater twist on the style and hopped the manure out of it. Look for more details on this sucker as we get a little closer to our birthday party.

From SweetWater’s Regional Fishing Guides

Last year was the first time in nearly half a decade that we began peddlin’ our goods into new states, casting our lines further north and west into in Kentucky and Louisiana last summer. That just wet our whistles…now rolling right on into 2014, we are prepping our production (and livers) to flow into about four more states by the year’s end.

First order of business is Virginia. We’ll be tapping into Virginia and the DC area the last week of January. Launch events and more details can be found on our Virginia Facebook page. We don’t have specifics ready just yet, but we’re eye-balling Mississippi, Ohio, Maryland, and Texas (in no particular order) after that. If all goes according to plan (and I think we all know the likelihood of that happening) we could be in a total of 13 states by 2015. 

Turns out we managed to sell some beer last year…in-between drinkin’ it. We ended up cranking out 144,000 barrels in 2013 (that’s more than 21 million pints, people). Our most popular seller is still (shocker) 420, but looks like folks love a little variety in your life too since Tackle Box went up a whoppin’ 215%. Our new Money Man says that’s a lot. Thanks for all of your hard work producing, packaging and peddling our brews. Keep doin’ what ya do!
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