This Halloween season, Shmaltz Brewing is offering a new, limited-edition release: Death Black IPA. 

New York-based Charmer Sunbelt Group and Wirtz Beverage Group, Chicago, two family-run distributors of wine, spirits and beer, announced on Oct. 20 that the companies signed an agreement to substantially combine all of their beverage alcohol operations.

White Plains, N.Y.-based Heineken USA released the third of its five 2015 #Heineken100 product collaborations. The custom jersey knit 

When summer was winding down, my family and I headed up north for a friend’s wedding in Door County, Wis. Aside from my sister getting a kick out of the goats grazing on the roof of Al Johnson’s Swedish Restaurant & Butik, we also got a chance to try Island Orchard Cider, a French-style hard cider that is produced in Ellison Bay, Wis.

The Boards of Anheuser Busch InBev (AB InBev), Leuven, Belgium, and SABMiller plc, London, announced that they have reached agreement in principle on the key terms of a possible recommended offer to be made by AB InBev for the entire issued and to be issued share capital of SABMiller.

Following recent press speculation, Leuven, Belgium-based Anheuser-Busch InBev (AB InBev) has submitted a new proposal to the Board of SABMiller plc, London, to combine the two beer companies.

Woodchuck Hard Cider added Hot Cha Cha Cha to its out on a limb series. 

The Boston Beer Co. introduced Angry Orchard Stone Dry to the line of Angry Orchard hard ciders. 

Jim Koch, founder of The Boston Beer Co., Boston, brewer of Samuel Adams beers is writing a book titled “Quench Your Own Thirst: Business Lessons Learned Over a Beer or Two.” Based on more than 30 years of experience as a business owner and brewer, Koch offers insights into the ride from scrappy start-up to thriving public company, according to New York-based Macmillan Publishers. His business model and recollections offer counterintuitive lessons that entrepreneurs and drinkers can apply to business and to life, it adds.

On Sept. 17, America’s beer distributors joined citizens throughout the country in commemorating Constitution Day, which celebrates the formation and signing of the U.S. Constitution on Sept. 17, 1787.