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Carlsberg Britvic has proposed a Marston’s Brewery closure that would end brewing at its historic site in Burton upon Trent in summer 2027. On Thursday, Oct. 8, 2026, Carlsberg Britvic told colleagues and trade unions it plans to shut the brewery and the primary logistics operation on the site, subject to consultation. About 310 roles…
The Hardywood Starr Hill deal puts Virginia’s two biggest craft brewers under one roof: Richmond’s Hardywood Park Craft Brewery has acquired Crozet’s Starr Hill Brewery in an all-equity deal. The breweries announced it on Wednesday, Oct. 7, 2026, and said the transaction closed Oct. 1. Price? Not disclosed. Both brands, their breweries and their taprooms…
/// AUDIO-TO-HOPS CROSSOVER DETECTED ///Track two on Mastodon’s new album is called “Poisonous Weapons,” and in Memphis it’s also a beer. Poisonous Weapons Hazy IPA is a 7% collaboration between Crosstown Brewing Co. and Mastodon, named for that song and for the band’s current tour. It debuted on draft Sept. 4, 2026, so it isn’t…
Burning Beard Brewing’s new home is still grounded. As of Oct. 9, 2026, the El Cajon brewery has moved its equipment into a former airplane hangar at Gillespie Field, but it can’t open until the building is cleared for non-aviation use, a call that now appears to rest with the Federal Aviation Administration (FAA). No…
Did I Stutter?, the helles lager Twin Elephant Brewing made in collaboration with The Dillinger Escape Plan, returns Friday, Oct. 9, 2026, at the brewery’s Chatham, New Jersey, taproom, according to JollyPint. Earthlings, this is a re-release, not a new specimen. The lager debuted in June 2024 for Dillinger’s Brooklyn Paramount reunion shows, and it’s…
No BeerAlien journalist has sampled this specimen yet, so we’ll let the brewery speak. On its beer page, 56 Brewing calls it “a limited collaboration beer” and writes: “We teamed up with the band Nothingness to create a super fruity and tropical Hazy IPA for the release of their album ‘Godslaughter.’ The band blends multiple…
Oklahoma Suks has officially re-entered orbit as Independence Brewing, one of Austin’s favorite Texas craft breweries, brings back its seasonal tribute ahead of the annual University of Texas vs. University of Oklahoma rivalry game. The high-gravity favorite (in spirit, if not ABV) is landing on refrigerator shelves state-wide. If you’re preparing for game-day watch parties…
/// INCOMING INTERSTELLAR SIGNAL /// Attention human craft beverage consumers! We have intercepted a high-priority distress signal—or rather, a victory roar—echoing from Earth’s craft beer sector. A legendary monster originally unleashed in 2017 has broken containment. Greetings, Earthlings! Your resident BeerAlien journalists have been monitoring planetary craft movements, and our sensors just spiked hard in…
Tröegs Independent Brewing has officially announced the launch of “PALs with your Pal,” a new partnership with the Pennsylvania SPCA (PSPCA) designed to raise awareness for pet adoption and help rescue animals find loving homes. Running throughout the months of September and October, the independent, family-owned brewery will highlight a featured adoptable pet each week….
Greetings, Earthlings and fellow craft beer explorers. Over our solar years monitoring human zymurgy, few terrestrial monuments have impressed our reconnaissance teams like the megalithic Stone Brewing World Bistro & Gardens in Escondido. It stood not just as a production facility, but as a cathedral of humulone and lupulin—a planetary landmark where humans gathered to…
There is a quiet contradiction unfolding within human brewing culture, and it has reached a new stage of evolution. A liquid once defined by its intoxicating properties is now being reconstructed—carefully, deliberately—without them. At the center of this shift is Switchback Brewing Co., which has aligned itself with Sustainable Beverage Technologiesto advance a technology that…
The Las Vegas craft beer scene is officially leveling up. After more than a decade of defining Nevada’s brew culture, Motley Brews has announced the sale of its iconic festival portfolio to Brothers Molloy Events. This isn’t just a corporate handoff; it’s a strategic evolution. Led by veteran event producer Lucas Molloy, the transition marks…
Greetings, sentient beings of the Milky Way and beyond. As a senior correspondent for the Galactic Observer, I have been tasked with analyzing the latest human obsession: the Yuengling Phillies Lager 2026 limited-edition release. I’ve spent many solar cycles attempting to decipher the complex social hierarchies and nutritional rituals of the bipedal inhabitants of Earth….
There are certain liquids on Earth that humans treat with unusual reverence. Coffee.Beer.And in the southern region of the United States — sweet tea. During a recent scan of Tennessee’s grocery supply chains, I detected a rapidly spreading beverage signal labeled Nashville Sweet Tea Co. Unlike beer, this liquid is not fermented.It is simply tea……
Earth transmission intercepted from the mountainous craft-beer territory known as Colorado. The source of the signal: Ratio Beerworks, an independent Denver fermentation outpost preparing to send one of its liquid creations — No Shade Pilsner — across the entire state for the first time. The expansion arrives shortly after the brewery completed 11 revolutions around…
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