TODAY'S TOP NEWS

• Craft Beer is Booming but Some Brewers Worry About the Future
• What creates consumers’ responses to beer?
• 10 Brews To Watch In The Anheuser-Busch InBev SABMiller deal
• When Alcohol Wholesaling Starts to Look Like “The Godfather”
• University of Kentucky threatens local distillery over logo use
• Is Austin’s craft beer market saturated?

• CO Craft breweries don't support beer-sales measure that backers say will help them
• Pa. bill allows wine, beer sales at grocery stores, keeps liquor stores open
• Unsafe Harbor
• Fight over where beer, wine can be sold heats up in Colorado
• Salt Lake City may get more beer

• Ziemann companies unify under single common name
• High-tech brew kit returns to Indiegogo for more beer money
• Marx Financial secures financing for new 25,000 square foot brewery for Baderbräu Brewing Company in Chicago's South Loop

LAUNCHPAD

• Funk Brewing to open brewpub next month in Elizabethtown
• New Brighton brewpub's founder opens Wisconsin brewery
• Octopi Brewing Co. opens doors in Waunakee

TASTE MATTERS

• Glenfiddich releases musical whisky experiment footage
• Middle-aged should drink less to avoid dementia

MARKETING

• How marketing can meet the millennial thirst for inspiration

• App-controlled Minibrew countertop appliance homebrews beer in 3.5 hours
• A craft brewery’s guide to gluing: Products you need and when you need them
• Jägermeister creates instant ice-cold shot machine

DISTRIBUTOR/SALES

• MGP Announces Major Warehouse Expansion
• Hydra Brewing quickly expanding operations
• Rebecca Creek Distillery tapping into new markets with expanded craft spirits lineup
• Sherwin-Williams, Balcones Distilling to get $4.3 million in local incentives

PACKAGING

• Growler stations offer expanded fresh-beer options
• Boise breweries start putting dates on cans

MANAGING

• 20 Tips for Building a Healthy Business

BEV TOURISM

• Wine boom in Ohio grows

SUSTAINABILITY

• Becoming a B Corp: only for the sustainable elite?

EDUCATION/ACADEMIA

• Cornell beer course brews up excitement, insights

PEOPLE

• Q&A With Head Cidermaker of America’s Best Selling Cider
• ‘Oyster dude’ enters Boston hard cider scene

• UW-Madison's Nick Smith boosts state's wine and cider industry
• There's a new cider tap room in Seattle
• Craft beer takes over Maryland: Interactive
• Seattle: Is Kenmore about to become the new Ballard?
• The last days of lager beer in St. Louis
• It’s like ‘Breaking Bad,’ but legal in Louisiana

INTERNATIONAL

• UK: Chapel Down gives beer business £1m boost
• South African brandy orders shot of state support to chase whisky
• Europe: MUP debate ‘driven wedge’ between groups
• Greetings from Budapest

BEER

• Does “Local” Matter When You’re Buying Beer?
• The story of pH1, craft beer’s most prolific sour beer barrel
• Glossary to decoding craft beer jargon
• You can brew just about anything into beer
• Brewing the Perfect Pumpkin Ale
• "Fear of missing out" Frenzy in Craft Beer
• Ben & Jerry’s and New Belgium Brewing Toast to the Next Pint in their Partnership

SPIRITS

• Ethical Concept: Craft Vodka
• Becoming a Master Rum Blender
• Why Batman Is Saving Your Glass of Tequila

WINE

• Mobile bottling lines help small wineries save space, aggravation
• What Does It Take to Be a Great Wine Reference Book Today?

CIDER

• Five facts about hard cider

KOMBUCHA

• Kombucha brewer Reid Emmerich back on the job

CRAFT COCKTAILS

• 'Spirited Republic' Seminars Bring Cocktails Out Of The Dark Ages
• The Cocktail at the End of the Universe