Mitch Steele, New Realm Brewing Co., has been named the new chair of the Brewers Association (BA) Supply Chain subcommittee, which is part of the Technical Committee structure.
Mitch is the Brewmaster, COO and Co-Founder of New Realm Brewing Company. He studied brewing science at the University of California Davis and started brewing professionally in 1988. Since then, Mitch has managed brewing operations and innovation with four different breweries, including 14 years with Anheuser-Busch and 10 years at Stone Brewing in San Diego, where he managed brewing operations as Stone grew from a 50,000 bbls operation to one of the top 10 largest craft brewers in the country. In 2012, Mitch authored the Brewers Publications book IPA: Brewing Techniques, Recipes and the Evolution of India Pale Ale. In 2014, the Brewers Association awarded Mitch with the prestigious Russell Scherer Award for Innovation in Craft Brewing.
The Brewers Association would like to thank previous Supply Chain chair Ken Grossman for his leadership, especially in providing guidance on the Research and Service Grants program and the new public hop breeding program. Ken’s service to the subcommittee, and the Technical Committee, has been a boon for the BA membership.
“I am excited to join the group of prestigious brewers on the Supply Chain subcommittee. This is an area I have passionately been involved with for many years,” says Steele.
Larry Horwitz, BA board member and current Technical Committee vice chair, helped with the search to replace Ken as chair. “We are honored to have Mitch Steel serve as chair of a committee of such importance to every brewer in America. Mitch’s extensive industry experience and vision will help the Supply Chain subcommittee proactively solve raw goods, packaging, and other materials issues for the association’s members.”
Boulder, Colorado—The Brewers Association (BA)—the not-for-profit trade group representing small and independent craft brewers—today released its second annual list of the 50 fastest growing small and independent1 craft brewing companies of 2018.
It was hard to imagine that we’d be able to top last year’s Record Store Day. Between our collaboration with The Flaming Lips and a limited edition vinyl featuring two original songs, it was one for the books. Then came 2019…
Now in our fifth year as the Official Beer of Record Store Day, we’re bringing together independent beer and independent record stores by reigniting our collaboration with longtime friends the Grateful Dead, as well as re-releasing the fan-favorite American Beauty pale ale. We’re also turning up the volume with the creation of Sage & Spirit, a limited edition 10-track vinyl album that will release on Record Store Day (Saturday, April 13).
Boulder, Colorado — The Brewers Association, a nonprofit organization supporting small and independent American craft brewers, has released its annual rankings of the top 50 craft brewing companies and overall U.S. breweries based on beer sales volume. Impressively, 40 of the top 50 overall beer producers were small and independent craft breweries.
Ursula. From sours to barrel-aged beers and everything in-between, Ursula Brewery has something for every taste bud. You can find their packaged beers all across the Colorado front range and in their tasting room! With a 10 barrel brew house and an additional 30 barrel fermenter, Head Brewer Dave Olson works around the clock to keep up with the demand of the tap room and in state distribution.
“Via Chicago” earned the brewery a silver medal at the Great American Beer Festival in 2015 in the American-Style Strong Pale Ale category, so rest-assured it and their “Ultimate Clarity” New England IPA is on the tap list year round. Currently, you can try three variants of their annual 108 Gram Barrel-Aged Russian Imperial Stout on tap as well – vanilla, praline, and cafe mocha.