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  • 17 June 2014 - Best Beer HQ

    News: US craft beer sales climb 20%

    Craft beer sales in the United States of America have surged by 20% to an estimated $14.3 billion in 2013, according to the Brewers Association. Craft beer’s share of the total US beer market climbed to more than 14% last year, as craft brewers produced nearly 8% more beer than the year before. That is […]

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  • The annual National Homebrewers Conference – the largest gathering of homebrewers in the world – is set to kick off in Grand Rapids, Michigan, next month. More than 3,000 homebrewers and beer enthusiasts from all over the United States of America will descend on the DeVos Place Convention Center in Grand Rapids from 12-14 June […]

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  • Scotland’s largest independent brewer BrewDog has launched its first craft beer shop – dubbed “BottleDog” – in London. The BottleDog store at 69 Gray’s Inn Road, near the Chancery Lane Tube Station, is the first in a series of new craft beer shops that the brewer and pub operator plans to open in the United […]

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  • The Dunedin Craft Beer and Food Festival is currently taking applications of interest from breweries and food vendors for 2014. Featuring fine food as well as the best beer from around New Zealand, the craft beer and food festival is set to take place at Dunedin’s Forsyth Barr Stadium on 4 October 2014. More than […]

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  • New Zealand Prime Minister John Key has officially reopened the Speight’s Brewery in Dunedin following a $40m upgrade project. The country’s second largest brewery has been refurbished to cope with demand in the wake of the deadly Christchurch earthquakes of 2011 which, along with untold damage and loss of life, caused the city’s Canterbury Brewery […]

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