ProBrew News

Dragon fruit, prickly pear, soursop, elderberry – the weirder the fruit the better! Fruited kettle sours, Milkshake IPAs and other artistic varieties of craft beer are growing in popularity.Read more…

Early adopters of the Alchemator, ProBrew’s new inline alcohol separator, like what they’re seeing as they expand their taproom and retail offerings.Read more…

The name Round Trip Brewing came to founder Craig Mycoskie by a happy accident (he was on a road trip, delivering kegs to a new market at his old job), but the image of going out into the world and returning home has become a useful part of his story.Read more…

Founded in 2014, Land-Grant produced 9,000 bbl of beer in 2019 and expects to hit 12,500 bbl in 2020. That’s some fantastic growth for a brewery that still only distributes to the Columbus, Ohio area.Read more…

If Jake Tower had any way of knowing that he would go from one of Central Waters Brewing Company’s biggest fans to the lead engineer in designing their all-new custom brewhouse automation system, he probably wouldn’t have waited so long to join the ProBrew Team.Read more…

Andrea May, Packaging Line Manager at Jackalope Brewing Co., figures she spends 10–15 hours per week doing preventive maintenance on their ProFill 90S.Read more…

“It’s a common story; I don’t even like to tell it,” says Erle Mankin, co-owner of Jackrabbit Brewing. “Four guys were homebrewing together and decided to start a brewery.”Read more…

ProBrew has been so busy solving breweries’ production, cellaring, and packaging problems that they barely noticed a problem developing right at home: They were running out of space.Read more…

How do you build a brand in a market comprised largely of tourists? That’s the task Cayman Islands Brewing challenged themselves with, but it’s also the opportunity. Read more…

In 1991, when Rohrbach Brewing became one of the first craft breweries in Rochester, New York, they were part of that pioneer generation whose mission was to change the American beer industry. Read more…

In mid-2018 ProBrew and AB InBev’s ZX Ventures Group began preliminary discussions about designing and building a new Goose Island Brewery and Brew Pub in London, England.Read more…

Shane Passwaters, Director of Operations at Central Waters Brewing, estimates about 40% of their 16,000 annual barrels of beer goes into an oak barrel for aging. Those 6,000 or so barrels go into kegs, bombers, or four packs of 12-oz. bottles, and though Central Waters has a shiny new canning line, they will probably always bottle their barrel-aged beers.Read more…

Jackalope Brewing (Nashville, Tenn.) spent their first two years building their brand as a draft-only brewery. They knew they would need to package at some point, but they were waiting for the right time.Read more…

You can be forgiven for not knowing what an oenobeer is. The closest thing you may have heard of is the Italian grape ale, which is literally the last style listed in the BJCP style guides – and even there it is considered a “not yet established” local style.Read more…

At the young age of 21-years old, Hans Deubel left Düsseldorf, Germany in search of the “American Dream”. After a detour through Canada for a few years he ended up in St. Louis, MO working for The Barry Wehmiller Company selling bottlewashers and electronic bottle inspectors to the brewing and beverage industry. Read more…

After four years, and some successful partnering, Raised Grain Brewing has become Waukesha, WI most popular craft brewery with two fully-operating locations, and a second GABF medal under their belt. Expanding to a second location, Raised Grain upgraded their production and experimentation opportunities. Read more…

The new ProCarb Mini is a direct outgrowth of our habit of listening to our customers and learning from them. ProBrew has been very successful supplying many craft breweries, cideries and carbonated beverage producers with the ProCarb Mini system since its introduction about two years ago. Read more …

ProBrew and Alfa Laval have established an exclusive partnership to offer Alfa Laval’s BREW Series of centrifugal separators, including the very popular BREW 80 and BREW 250 with integrated ProCarb inline carbonation and/or nitrogenation technology. Read more …

Three decades ago, Jim Koch drew a lot of flack for contracting to brew his Boston Lager. Nowadays, it’s possible to start a contract-only production brewery and have more work than you can handle. Read more …

When you brew beer in Alaska – a state that relies on planes and ferries almost as much as cars – you learn to think a little differently. Read more …

With the launch of ProService, ProBrew now offers its craft beer customers the same world-class service their parent company, TechniBlend, has given to beverage giants like Anheuser-Busch, Miller-Coors, Sam Adams, Coca-Cola, and Pepsi to name a few. Read more …

ProBrew is pleased to announce they are now a Distributor for BioGill, an innovative biological water treatment technology used to reduce nutrient loads in brewery wastewater. Read more …