Top Tier Beer Group previously announced its’ 2017 participating restaurants for The Great Grilled Cheese Challenge. This year’s competition is titled The Great Grilled Cheese Challenge with a $1,000 prize to the people’s choice winner. In addition to beer, Hops on the Mon will also feature a yearly food competition and sampling based on a theme and provided by the area’s best local restaurants. Top Tier Beer Group previously announced the final brewery list for Hops on the Mon craft beer and food festival. To purchase tickets, or for additional information about Hops on the Mon, visit. Tickets for the event are $60 for VIP with early entry, $45 general admission, and include a souvenir tasting glass. To be able to enjoy this kind of offering in a luxurious venue like the Morgantown Event Center is unprecedented.” “Not only will it be the largest selection of craft beer offered under one roof in the history of West Virginia, but it includes many high-end seasonal and small batch releases that are hard to find. “For fans of craft beer, or anyone else interested in learning and experiencing what the craft beer movement is all about, this is the event to attend,” said Jay Redmond, spokesperson for event producer Top Tier Beer Group. The lineup represents the largest offering ever for craft beer enthusiasts in the Mountain State. Sixty-four breweries from fifteen states and five foreign countries-including fifteen West Virginia breweries-will offer festival goers a chance to sample from more than 170 brews selected especially for the event. This piece has been updated to reflect this.MORGANTOWN, WV-After a year of planning and preparation aimed at creating the most exclusive beer gathering ever held in West Virginia, the inaugural Hops on the Mon craft beer and food festival is set for Saturday at the Morgantown Event Center in the Morgantown Marriott at Waterfront Place. In fact, it produces more than 60,000 barrels. The Brewers Association defines American craft breweries as "small, independent and traditional." "Small" is defined as an "annual production of 6 million barrels of beer or less" "independent" is defined as at least 75 percent owned or controlled by a craft brewer and "traditional" is defined as brewing in which at least 50 percent of the beer's volume consists of "traditional or innovative" ingredients.”īy this definition, Devils Backbone - now stripped of its "independent" qualifications - no longer falls into the craft beer category.Ĭorrection: This story previously stated that Devils Backbone produces more than 60,000 gallons of beer annually. (In fact, according to the National Beer Wholesalers Association, most of the country’s beer distribution, craft or not, flows through companies with agreements to either sell AB InBev or MillerCoors.) And Devils Backbone's flagship, Vienna Lager - which comprises roughly 60 percent of the brewery's sales - stands to be a viable competitor to both Sam Adams Boston Lager and Yuengling, a foothold AB InBev has tried to gain multiple times and failed. Devils Backbone was already nearly 100 percent dispersed through AB InBev distribution houses, which should make this transition easy. The acquisition looks to be smart one for AB InBev. ![]() Steve Crandall, owner and founder of Devils Backbone, says in a statement that Devils Backbone will keep its autonomy and will continue with its own authentic DNA within AB InBev’s The High End framework. This is in addition to its $107 billion merger with the London-based brewery and beverage company SABMIller. and Patchogue, New York's Blue Point Brewery, now all pieces in the company's ever-expanding “craft focused” division, The High End. This isn’t new territory for the beer behemoth, the company behind Budweiser, Busch, Michelob, Corona and others. In December of 2015, it acquired Colorado's Breckenridge Brewery, and before that purchase, it scooped up Seattle's Elysian Brewing Co., Chicago-based Goose Island Beer Co. (Photo by: Stephanie Breijo)Įvery few months, the beer nation gets saddled with the same issue: Big Beer buys Little Beer, and tears ensue from those involved, from those who have nothing to do with beer, from those who didn’t even know which company owned said brewery to begin with. But just how bad is it, and what does it mean? The latest in the acquisition stream is Devils Backbone Brewing Co., the largest craft brewery in Virginia, which produces more than 60,000 barrels annually. The Roseland-based brewery, which opened in 2008, announced today that it will be acquired by Belgian-headquartered Anheuser-Busch InBev. What happens when craft beer sells out? Virginia's largest craft brewery is about to find out.
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