Craft Beer & Brewery Release Watch

Why this is recommended

A Dark Lord Day or Pliny the Younger release window, a bottle society that opens once a year, or a brewery closure before a $500 gift card is lost each is worth the fee.

What the Tab covers

Who it is for

The 50 million Americans who drink craft beer and the 5 million who chase limited releases and visit breweries on the road.

When it runs

Breweries announce limited releases on Thursdays for weekend drops, seasonal beers ship on fixed calendars, and brewery closures cluster in January and after summer

Scope

Three Floyds, Russian River, Tree House, Trillium, Other Half, Hill Farmstead, Toppling Goliath, Bottle Logic, Side Project, Goose Island Bourbon County, Founders, Bell's, Sierra Nevada, Dogfish Head and top-250 Untappd breweries; Brewers Association; Great American Beer Festival and state festivals; state alcohol shipping laws; brewery closure reporting

Suggested task

The objective your Tab starts with. You can edit every line of it once the Tab is yours.

Limited and barrel-aged release drops with dates, quantities and purchase limits, seasonal release schedules, brewery closures, sales and acquisitions, beer festival ticket on-sales, distribution expansions to new states, brewery membership and bottle society openings, shipping law changes for beer, and major beer competition results, with the brewery and the beer first.

Track craft beer for US drinkers and collectors. Report only confirmed, source-backed items from the last 7 days and the coming 14 days: limited, barrel-aged and anniversary release drops with dates, quantities, prices and purchase limits at top-250 breweries including Three Floyds, Russian River, Tree House, Trillium, Other Half, Hill Farmstead, Toppling Goliath, Bottle Logic, Side Project and Goose Island; seasonal release schedules from major brands; brewery closures, sales, acquisitions and taproom openings; beer festival ticket on-sales including Great American Beer Festival; distribution expansions to new states; brewery membership and bottle society openings; state beer shipping and direct-to-consumer law changes; and major competition results. Prefer brewery announcements, Brewers Association, festival, state alcohol board and established beer reporting; ignore unverified trade group chatter. Put the brewery and the beer first in the title. Use high severity for a release expected to sell out in a day, a membership opening, or a closure at a top-100 brewery. Return no more than 8 findings. Push each as a finding with a title, a two-sentence summary, sections for what it is, the date, the price and limit, how to get it, and the source link. If nothing qualifies, push nothing and submit the run receipt.