Trillium Brewing

The collision course between two of New England’s finest homegrown brands has been brewing for quite some time, and Trillium and Levitate have come together to celebrate their shared values as businesses and the mutual love of a good time through the release of their first ever collaborative beer offering.

Boston-based Trillium Brewing Company is consolidating its production in Massachusetts and offering its original Canton facility as a turnkey operation.

East meets West with Coexistent Creatures, the latest beer series from Trillium, which brings together the refreshing bitterness and classic brightness of a West Coast IPA, with the juicy, fruit-forward aromatics of a New England IPA. Trillium launched Raucous Raccoon this morning, the first in a series best described as hybrid IPAs.

Trillium Brewing’s taproom and restaurant in Boston’s Fort Point neighborhood was evacuated Saturday evening after a fire. Trillium co-founder Esther Tetreault told Brewbound that the location’s management team acted swiftly at the first sign of an issue and there were no injuries.

Brooklyn-headquartered Other Half Brewing will set up shop in the former Goose Island brewery and taproom in Philadelphia’s Fishtown neighborhood, the Philadelphia Inquirer reported earlier this week.

Just how big a part of the beer category could hard seltzer be by 2025? It depends on who you ask. During this month’s Beverage Forum, Anthony Von Mandl and Jim Koch, the leaders of the companies that produce the two largest hard seltzer brands, White Claw and Truly, respectively, offered differing projections, according to analysts’ reports.

Sierra Nevada has announced it will reopen its breweries in Chico, California, and Mills River, North Carolina, to the public in May after what will be a 14-month hiatus from on-site service, according to a report in the Chico Enterprise-Record. Philadelphia-headquartered, on-demand delivery platform goPuff announced the completion of a $1.15 billion fundraising round earlier this week.

San Francisco-based Fort Point Beer Company has ended its 6-year-old self-distribution operation and sold the rights to distribute its brands to Matagrano Inc. in the Bay Area. Offerings from Bell’s Brewery will be sold by Classic Beverage in Southern California, following the acquisition of Bell’s brand rights by the City of Industry-headquartered wholesaler, which purchased Craft Beer Guild from Sheehan Family Companies.

Two more popular craft breweries have announced that their taprooms will be hibernating this winter as colder weather makes outdoor service infeasible, and COVID-19 cases continue to rise nationwide. Chicago-headquartered Revolution Brewing and Canton, Massachusetts-based Trillium Brewing both said this week that they will be temporarily shuttering their locations for on-premise service through the winter.

New Belgium will wade into the increasingly crowded hard seltzer segment next year with Fruit Smash, Brewbound has confirmed. Massachusetts’ Trillium Brewing reopened its popular beer garden on Boston’s Rose Kennedy Greenway today for its fourth season.

Independent craft brewers, White Lion Brewing Company, of Springfield and Trillium Brewing Company, of Boston announced their participation in the nationwide Black is Beautiful initiative with the upcoming release of their collaborative imperial stout.

In California, where more than 1,000 breweries are in operation, the state Alcoholic Beverage Control (ABC) has offered temporary regulatory relief for license holders such as drive-thru windows for off-premise transactions, packaged goods sold to-go from on-premise retailers and delivery to consumers.

Trillium’s newly released Double Dry Hopped Double IPA ‘Leap Beer’ is brewed with an amped up amount of Galaxy and Simcoe hops, and clocks in at 8.6% ABV.