BOB recently hit the road for an event he’d been working on with the North Carolina Craft Brewers Guild. The Sustainable Brewing & Packaging event was hosted at the Ardagh Group glass manufacturing facility in Wilson, N.C. Craft breweries from across the state of North Carolina, government agency officials from North Carolina and representatives from other supply chain businesses gathered...
Join Bell's Brewery, Mother Earth Brewing and Double Barley Brewing for a free event on brewery sustainability, in collaboration with the North Carolina Brewers Guild and Ardagh Group. Date: March 13, 2019 Location: Ardagh Group, 2201 Firestone Pkwy., Wilson, NC 27893 Time: Noon to 5:00 p.m. Noon - 1:00 p.m. Lunch Provided 1:00 - 2:00 p.m. Brewery Panel on Sustainability...
Join Bell's Brewery, Mother Earth Brewing and Double Barley Brewing for a session on brewery sustainability, in collaboration with the North Carolina Brewers Guild and Ardagh Group. More details will follow in an upcoming email. To RSVP, email Marketing.Glass.NA@ardaghgroup.com.
October 2018 Newsletter WELCOME Since we last spoke, BOB has enjoyed some great craft beer at the Virginia Craft Brewers Fest and the Great American Beer Festival. BOB has also been preparing for the upcoming North Carolina Craft Brewers Conference. If you are planning to be in the Winston-Salem area on Nov. 7, you can catch BOB pouring beer from...
BOB is excited to welcome a new beer bottle to his portfolio – the 500ml Celebration! The American-made 500ml Celebration bottle has the versatility of using either a crown/pry-off or a cork closure and is made of high-quality, amber glass that is 100 percent and endlessly recyclable. Alex Robertson, Chief Commercial Officer for Ardagh Group’s North American Glass division, says...
With so many types of craft beer to explore, BOB has noticed a lot of buzz recently about barrel-aged beer. In fact, almost every brewery in America now offers a barrel-aged beer. Many craft brewers have experimented with different woods, aging durations and additions to the barrel, such as fruit and spice. A barrel-aged beer is any lager, ale or...
BOB recently hit the road to exhibit at the 2018 Virginia Craft Brewers Fest in Charlottesville. The Fest was hosted by Charlottesville’s very own Three Notch’d Brewing Company. As the only sanctioned event of the Virginia Craft Brewers Guild, thousands of craft beer aficionados from Virginia and the surrounding states descended on Three Notch'd Brewery to help celebrate Virginia’s amazing...
There’s nothing more refreshing than fresh fruit beer during the summer. For many years, I held a grudge against fruit beer. Don’t make the same mistake I did and turn your nose up at this style. Our nation’s craft brewers are making amazing beer using fruit as an ingredient to amplify flavor, and they are totally rocking it. I wanted...