• Skip to primary navigation
  • Skip to main content
  • Skip to primary sidebar
  • Skip to footer
  • Advertise
  • About Craft Brewing Business

Craft Brewing Business

Professional Insight, Unfiltered

Craft Brewing Business Craft Brewing Business
  • News
  • Business & Marketing
  • Packaging & Distribution
  • Equipment & Systems
  • Ingredients & Supplies
  • Webinars & White Papers
  • News
  • Business & Marketing
  • Ingredients & Supplies
  • Packaging & Distribution
  • Equipment
  • Webinars & White Papers
  • COVID-19

It’s Craft Beer Week (CHEST BUMP), enjoy this cheeky video on the CBW national collaboration beer

May 16, 2016Keith Gribbins

What’s your favorite week of the year? The Christmas/New Year’s combo? The spring’s ultimate beer biz bash, the Craft Brewers Conference? Do you know what our favorite week is? Craft Beer Week. Saw that coming, huh?

Cue Tony Magee doing a bluesy guitar solo. Feel better?

All year round, beer weeks give craft beer fans and craft breweries across the United States more exposure, love and success. Beer weeks celebrate the culture and community of craft beer, and we think that’s pretty darn cool. It also gives breweries and beer businesses the opportunity to connect with the fans, which we think is even cooler. This year, American Craft Beer Week is May 16-22. What’s the highlight? Besides all the excellent tap takeovers, parties and community events celebrating craft beer? The national collaboration beer.

Cue Rhinegeist rap tune.

Small and independent craft brewers across the country have created a very special beer in honor of American Craft Beer Week. The “Biggest Small Beer Ever Made” was produced by participating brewers in all 50 states using the same ingredients and recipe. Watch the cheeky video above promoting it, and then check out Julia Herz’s quote from the press release. Then, go find that beer.

“There’s nothing more American than small and independent craft brewers and their amazing, full-flavored beer. American Craft Beer Week is a time to raise a glass and toast how they have forever changed our beer culture, economy, communities and country as a whole,” said Julia Herz, publisher of CraftBeer.com and craft beer program director at the Brewers Association. “Craft beer is a unique community where competitors work together to provide beers that represent authenticity, quality and innovation. The unity and collaboration behind the Biggest Small Beer Ever Made shows brewers believe that the success of other independent brewers is their own success.”

The beer, which can be sampled at over 100 breweries throughout the country, was inspired by one recipe. Each participating brewery was invited to brew the beer with the understanding that even with the same recipe, no beer could be exactly the same. This year also marks the return of the American Craft Beer Week Nationwide Toast. At 8 p.m. ET/5 p.m. PT on Thursday, May 19, small brewers and craft beer lovers nationwide will raise a glass of the Biggest Small Beer Ever Made or their favorite indie craft brewed beer to simultaneously toast. To find a toast location near you, visit the official American Craft Beer Week events page. The map contains all other local celebrations, events and promotions for 2016.

We’ll cheers you then.

safety
Download these two safety posters on carbon dioxide exposure and confined space dangers in craft breweries
Dang, the Foy Vance song behind MillerCoors’s new Saint Archer ad campaign is one hot jam
UC Davis beer school cbb crop
2020 applications are open for UC Davis’ Master Brewers Certificate Program
Watch: Founders Brewing shares tips for using a jockey box at beer events

Reader Interactions

Comments

  1. thatspiritsguy says

    May 19, 2016 at 7:04 am

    RT @BrewBizTracy: It’s Craft Beer Week (May 16-22), signature national collab beer https://t.co/vt9KBBrAft

    Log in to Reply
  2. BrewBizTracy says

    May 19, 2016 at 7:03 am

    It’s Craft Beer Week (May 16-22), signature national collab beer https://t.co/vt9KBBrAft

    Log in to Reply
  3. Hong Jinho says

    May 16, 2016 at 8:06 pm

    Hong Jinho liked this on Facebook.

    Log in to Reply
  4. Belgian-Style Ales says

    May 16, 2016 at 12:36 pm

    Belgian-Style Ales liked this on Facebook.

    Log in to Reply
  5. crsimp01 says

    May 16, 2016 at 11:16 am

    It’s Craft Beer Week (May 16-22), signature national collab beer https://t.co/C6VsPmyQHd via @craftbrewingbiz

    Log in to Reply
  6. Artifact_Bret says

    May 16, 2016 at 11:08 am

    RT @CraftBrewingBiz: It’s Craft Beer Week (fuck yeah!), enjoy this video on the national collaboration beer. #ACBW https://t.co/SUtOHGs0IM

    Log in to Reply

Leave a Reply Cancel reply

You must be logged in to post a comment.

Primary Sidebar

Latest News

  • NBWA releases January Beer Purchasers’ Index, craft demand sinks low
  • Watch a drone release insects over hop yards for sustainable pest control in this Yakima Chief Hops video series
  • BarTrack scales nationwide presence to over 40 states, announces big Series A investments
  • Distro update: Connecticut’s Two Roads Brewing goes to Colorado + news from Surreal, New Sarum and more

Sign up for our newsletter

unsubscribe from list

Most Popular Today

Recent Features

  • Watch a drone release insects over hop yards for sustainable pest control in this Yakima Chief Hops video series
    January 30, 2023
  • Distro update: Connecticut’s Two Roads Brewing goes to Colorado + news from Surreal, New Sarum and more
    January 30, 2023
  • Cadaverine: When your beer smells like dead human
    January 26, 2023
  • beer taps brain distribution cbb cropUnfiltered: There are weevils in my grain – what do I do?
    January 26, 2023
  • People news: Industry icon John Mallett steps down from Bell’s + moves from Craft ‘Ohana, BrewDog USA and more
    January 25, 2023
  • Premium beer products were one of the top growth markets of 2022, says IWSR 
    January 23, 2023

Footer

  • Email Newsletter Sign Up
  • About Craft Brewing Business
  • Contact Us
  • Advertise on Craft Brewing Business
  • Media Kit Download
  • Privacy and Terms

© 2023 · CBB Media LLC