Ballast Point Brewing will bottle another batch of Sculpin IPA this week and there is speculation that the release will be this Saturday.

Mayflower Brewing out of Massachusetts will release its Bourbon Barrel-Aged Porter in growlers this Friday and Saturday at the brewery. According to the blog, the beer “was aged in a Buffalo Trace bourbon barrel for a month this fall.” More release details available on the Mayflower blog.

In news pertaining to two large craft breweries, Harpoon Brewery and Magic Hat both took large steps this week in increasing sales and production:

Per the Magic Hat blog, brewery operations are now running at the new facility in Burlington, VT: “On December 9, the first round of beer was brewed and, you guessed it, it was a 150-barrel batch of #9!”

And according to the Town Online’s Norman Miller, “Harpoon Brewery will install two 500 barrel unitank fermenters in front of their South Boston brewery [on Friday] […] are the largest tanks to be installed in the brewery’s history, twice the size of the largest tank at Harpoon currently […] will increase Harpoon’s brewing capacity by approximately 20%.” Side note: Harpoon Leviathan Quadrupel will be packaged the last week in February and released in March.

Last but not least, Saint Arnold Winter Stout should be shipping out through distributors right about now and will be available toward the end of the month.