Freetail Brewing Company

JW Marriott San Antonio Hill Country Resort & Spa and Freetail Brewing Company swarmed together to colonize a new “bee-r” the two establishments have partnered to create, called Hill Country Honey Blonde.

Silver Eagle Beverages today announced “Locals Helping Locals,” a charitable partnership withFreetail Brewing Co., benefitingCulinaria, the leading organization promoting San Antonio as a culinary destination and supporting the restaurant and hospitality community in times of need.

Freetail Brewing Co., San Antonio’s favorite brewery and tap room, has teamed up with Pickle Juice, the world’s first and only scientifically proven, anti-cramping solution, to create an original kettle soured pickle beer, available for locals beginning this month. Infused with Freetail’s fan-favorite brewing processes and the power of the pickle flavor, the result is a salty, pickle brew.

In this week’s Last Call: The TTB and Elgin Beverage agree to a $325,000 offer in compromise; Freetail Brewing co-founder Scott Metzger departs the company he helped launch in 2008; Cape May Brewing plans to open a distributorship in 2019; and Massachusetts will become the first state east of the Mississippi to conduct legal recreational cannabis sales next Tuesday.

Taprooms and direct-to-consumer sales were hot topics during this year’s Craft Brewers Convention in Nashville, Tennessee. Two seminars — “Building Your Brand Through the Tasting Room” and “Defense and Promotion of Tasting Rooms” — focused on the phenomenon that has agitated some retailers and wholesalers, but the topic bled into other conversations throughout the week.

PicoBrew, manufacturer of the world’s first line of automatic, craft beer brewing appliances, today announced new partnerships with local Seattle, WA craft beer breweries Fremont Brewing and Stoup Brewing, as well as Wicks Brewing of Riverside, CA, Freetail Brewing Co. in San Antonio, TX, and Still Hill Brewery from Rocky Hill, CT to create PicoPaks, adding to its more than 160 brewery partners from around the world.

Two San Antonio breweries have joined forces to release three special beers in celebration of San Antonio’s 300th anniversary. Ranger Creek Brewing & Distilling and Freetail Brewing Company, two breweries that have been leaders in San Antonio’s craft beer movement, will each release a beer this year leading up to the 2018 Tricentennial celebration. They will then come together to brew a special collaboration beer to be released during the Tricentennial.

After Silver Eagle Distributors increased its keg deposit price by 20 percent, a number of Houston-area retailers, alleging they were never warned of the new pricing structure, banded together to boycott the prominent Texas wholesaler.

San Francisco’s 21st Amendment Brewery has announced plans to expand distribution to Chicago this spring, sales director Ted Whitney told Brewbound. “We’ll be sitting down to plan the launch in the next few weeks and we expect this to be an epic beer landing,” he said. The company is currently in the process of finalizing its wholesaler partnerships, though it would not specify what distributors it’s teaming up with.

San Antonio, TX — With recent changes to the state’s alcoholic beverage code, Freetail Brewing Co. is able to sell its beer for wholesale distribution for the first time, and it has partnered with the nation’s second largest beer distributor to do so.

With a slate of craft beer-related bills awaiting approval from the Texas legislature, a group of in-state brewers have expressed mixed feelings about the proposed measures.

A Texas legislator is aiming to boost support for small craft brewers in his state, which is dominated by Spoetzl Brewery, makers of Shiner Bock, and beer giants Anheuser-Busch InBev and MillerCoors.