Colonial Hipster is heading to Systembolaget, our collaboration with Six Degrees North is out soon and Craft Beer in Berlin has really taken off – Weekly Brewery Update

Last week I went across to Berlin, Germany for a bit of a getaway, as well as to say hi to ”Crafted in Sweden”, our Berlin distributor. At one of the pubs, down the road from our hotel, I was surprised to see so much of our beer. As always I had to buy some, it’s always great to drink your own beer in another country.

In the fridge, however, there was more than just our beer. Our Gothenburg friends Stigbergets Bryggeri, Poppels, Klackebacken was also there. All thanks to our Swedish, German importer Crafted in Sweden. If you’re in Germany and want to get hold of our beer to sell or to buy, then get in touch with them and they’ll sort you out.

We’ll also be at Stone Brewing on the 15th of October for a can event, so we’re looking forward to getting back to Berlin and meeting up. More on that later.

Craft beer label designs: the concepts and process.

In the growing craft beer market, breweries are making their bottles and cans stand out through colorful packaging and distinct graphic designs that draw a customer’s eye.

Brewery owners, along with their graphic designers, look for every label to embody the style of beer, as well as the name and mission of the brewery.

Labels have become a staple in the local craft beer scene, defining each brand and bringing life to beers and the stories behind them through visuals.

“People seem to be really into our designs. In the craft beer industry people can really draw into the visuals that the beer has,” said Tradition Brewing Company’s graphic designer Alaina Meadows. The brewery is in Newport News.

”We’ve had a lot of requests for posters and copies of them. I just had a request for Hull 488 as a poster.”…

Craft beer labels create a more colorful world with exhibit at Hickory Museum of Art.

Whether it’s the image of a chimpanzee in space, Abraham Lincoln breaking free from Mt. Rushmore or the elegant type from a Walt Whitman poem, craft beer labels are as unique as their ingredients.

As the industry has grown in recent years, those labels have become iconic venues for 21st century storytelling.

Local graphic design artist, Matt Everley has always been a fan of both craft beers and their labels, and for the last few years, he’s joined the growing ranks of accomplished artists who’ve combined both beer and visual art to help tell the stories of local breweries and their communities.

“I’ve always thought the Holy Grail for designers is beer labels and album covers,” Everley said…

Directly after the Edinburgh Craft Beer Festival this year, Richard met up with the guys from Six Degrees North to brew a collaboration. They brewed three beers with three different breweries for what they coined Foraged and Found.

The beer we brewed together is called Heather, and is a Honey Heather Saison. Personally I haven’t tried it yet, but Six Degrees North is well known for their Belgian Style Ales.

It will officially be released on the 24th of August, and we’ll see about bringing some across to sell at our Tap Room.

The Beerbliotek Tap Room is again open this weekend, and we know for sure that we will have some very fresh Colonial Hipster and Hip Hops available, that was packaged this week. It tasted great during packaging 🙂 The other beers available will be released during the week. Doors open on Friday 5pm and Saturday on 2pm.

During the autumn we will also be attending some festivals outside of Sweden in England, Belgium, Portugal, Norway and Germany for now. More on that later.

That’s it from us for this week, until next week.

Cheers

Internationally

Have a look at the beers from our Standard Assortment, or the new beers from our Special Assortment.

If you’d like to get hold of our beers from the distributors, then get in touch, and we’ll link them up with you. If you’re keen to distribute our beer in your country, then get in touch, and we can discuss possibilities with you.