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G-Love To Collaborate With New Belgium

Philadelphia musician Garrett Dutton, better known as G-Love of G-Love and Special Sauce, has befriended New Belgium and will be brewing a beer with them this summer.  Tentatively they will be brewing a peach beer together this July for the Lips of Faith series.  It will potentially be named Front Porch Peach Lounger after G-Love’s song, Front Porch Lounger.  The beer will be brewed with NJ peaches, molasses, grits, and biscuit malt.  It will be bottled in 22oz bottles and will be 9.4% ABV.

Dutton has been a homebrewer since he was in 11th grade.  Yep, he was a young’n.  He … Read the rest

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Enter to Win Exclusive New Belgium Beer by Submitting Clips of Faith Video by Monday

Interested in winning an exclusive New Belgium beer made just for a select few? Enter their Clips of Faith film contest, and if you are one of the winning submissions you’ll get a “trophy-worthy beer made exclusively for the winning submissions. Only Clips of Faith filmmakers will receive these custom screen-printed bottles declaring your filmmaking [...] [...]

Out of the Northwest: CO: New Belgium announces sponsorship deal with USA Pro Cycling Challenge

Most of the time this writer will avoid throwing other recreations into the mix when it comes to craft beer. However I couldn’t resist mentioning this one when I got the notice. New Belgium has just signed on (for two years) to be the official bee… [...]

Lagunitas Chicago Expansion Continues Trend for Large Craft Breweries

If you don’t pay attention to national beer industry news it might have been easy to miss that New Belgium Brewing and Sierra Nevada Brewing have both announced their intentions to build new breweries in Asheville, NC. The newest expansion revelation comes from Lagunitas Brewing, who just announced that they will be almost doubling their brewing capacity by opening [...] [...]

New Belgium Chooses Asheville

To not great surprise, New Belgium Brewing announced last week that they would be building their East Coast Brewery in Asheville, North Carolina. Virginia was considered early on, but the choices were soon narrowed to Asheville and Philadelphia. C… [...]

New Belgium Dig Pale Ale review

Leave it to New Belgium to release a new Spring seasonal in the early part of Winter. No longer is it in style to wait until Spring to put out your seasonals during the actual season. But what ever the time of year, New Belgium usually puts out a quali… [...]

The Big Boys Are Coming to Asheville

Within four months of each other, craft beer behemoths Sierra Nevada and New Belgium announced they are bringing their game east and will build breweries in Asheville, NC. They are the second and third largest breweries in the country, respectively, … Continue reading [...]

Beer Review 108: New Belgium Belgo

Hello Beer Friends Nation! You know what makes this a Good Friday?  Another review from the Beer Friends! We return to our New Belgium Series with Belgo, a Belgian style IPA. This is part of the Explore Series which also features favorites like Ranger IPA and the new Shift (Pale Lager).  This week Greg Avola [...] [...]

Yay! New Belgium to open brewery two in Asheville

So, it all went down yesterday. As The Beer Guy, Tony Kiss, wrote, “It’s as if Asheville landed two major league baseball teams in the same season, as if the Yankees and Braves both relocated here.” Or to be more geographically appropriate, as if the Giants and the Rockies both relocated here. Yesterday, at around [...] [...]

Economies of Scale in Craft: New Belgium Expanding to Asheville

New Belgium’s Fort Collins, Colorado BreweryWhy economies of scale?  Well, when you are bigger you have the capacity to operate two separate breweries and thus locate closer to your customers which reduces transportation and storage costs and al… [...]

New Belgium Brewing Announces Asheville as Site for Second Brewery

Fort Collins, CO brewery will expand production capacity with east coast facility [...]

New Belgium to open a brewery in Asheville

Asheville, N.C., is certainly becoming the place for beer. New Belgium Brewing has announced that it will building a brewery in the city’s River Arts District. In January, Sierra Nevada announced that it would build its long-rumored eastern brewery jus… [...]

Press Release: New Belgium Brewing Announces Asheville as Site for Second Brewery

  Fort Collins, CO, April 05, 2012 – New Belgium Brewing announced today that Asheville, NC has been selected as the new location for a second brewery. The 400,000-barrel brewery and packaging facility will provide N… [...]

New Belgium Plans First East Coast Brewery in Asheville

Asheville, NC scores another major victory with the announcement yesterday that New Belgium, makers of the popular Fat Tire brew, will build their first east coast brewery there early next year. Coming quickly on the heels of an announcement by Sierra Nevada, yesterday’s announcement seems to solidify Asheville’s tenure as Beer City USA. New Belgium [...] [...]

Congratulations, Asheville

Awwww…crap.New Belgium Brewing Announces Asheville as Site for Second BreweryBrewer will expand production capacity with east coast facilityFort Collins, CO, April 5, 2012 – New Belgium Brewing announced today that Asheville, NC has been selected as … [...]

Asheville, North Carolina, lands New Belgium brewery

Asheville, North Carolina, with its gorgeous mountain backdrop, funky downtown and thriving craft beer scene officially scored a brewery coup – its second this year. During a ceremony presided over by North Carolina Gov. Bev … [...]

New Belgium Brewing announces Asheville as site for second brewery

It’s official. New Belgium Brewing is coming to Asheville. Here’s the press release and video announcement: Fort Collins, CO, April 5, 2012 – New Belgium Brewing announced today that Asheville, NC has been selected as the new location for a second brewery. The 400,000-barrel brewery and packaging facility will provide New Belgium with additional capacity [...] [...]

New Belgium Brewing Announces Asheville as Site for Second Brewery

[Press Release... finally. Long time coming on this one!] Fort Collins, CO, April 5, 2012 - New Belgium Brewing announced today that Asheville, NC has been selected as the new location for a second brewery. The 400,000-barrel brewery and packaging facility will provide New Belgium with additional capacity allowing the Colorado-based brewer to expand into new areas [...] [...]

Shift-y New Packaging for New Belgium

Kind of a disturbing new trend going on in the craft beer world recently with companies packaging beers in smaller quantities but charging the same as you’d pay for a six-pack. For instance, Green Flash used to sell their West Coast IPA in six-packs, b… [...]

New Belgium Brewing to open brewery in Asheville? Seems so.

While the writing hasn’t been formally released, it’s clearly on the wall. There will be an event of some sort tomorrow involving North Carolina Governor Beverly Perdue down in Asheville’s River Arts District, and while I can’t confirm that it is indeed the announcement that New Belgium Brewing will be building an East Coast Brewery [...] [...]