Part I of II…digging around the web for articles of interest so that you don’t have to…

(Photo Credit: Phineas X. Jones)

Sierra Nevada Brewing: Founder, Ken Grossman, says that they’ll make a decision on their East HQ search within the next six weeks. A Virginia business development group is visiting the brewery in Chico this week as well.

Deschutes Brewery: Expanding distribution to Kansas soon (and Missouri but that’s old news).

Three Floyds / Struise: Shark Pants, the collaboration between these two breweries is now on tap at 3F. Not sure (or I forget) at this point whether it will be bottled. “A collaboration/dedication ale brewed with our friend Urbain from the Belgian brewery De Struise, this intense Belgian-style double IPA was fermented with Urbain’s special yeast and then an amazing amount of hops were added. This beer was brewed in loving memory of a former employee, Rich Sheppard, who recently passed away, a portion of the proceeds from this beer will go to his family. Try this beer and enjoy the Rich life. 100+ IBU, 8.7% ABV, $8 Snifter”

And then there is this recent tidbit on Facebook… “Ok gents, this is news, and hot from tzsé needle… Struise is going back to 3F’s in September, to brew a freaking out Black Albert! To be Blendified (lol) with a still secret Dark Lord version and Double Blackified (lol again) … that is about the most crazy project ever for Struise to collaborate too this year! Release date, don’t ask me, ask 3F’s :-)”

Pelican Pub and Brewery: More expansion. “Pacific City’s Pelican Pub & Brewery hopes to team up with the Port of Tillamook Bay to build a second, much larger facility on port property. The new operation would double the existing brewery’s production from 5,000 barrels per year to 10,000 barrels per year.” H/T to the New School Brew Blog.

Jester King Craft Brewery: Posted a big update last week, “On Friday, we brewed what we hope will be a very traditional rendition of a Berliner Weisse, a sour, very pale wheat beer, fermented with a combination of saccharomyces (standard beer yeast) and lactobacillus (souring bacteria). The word ‘Weisse’ means ‘white’ in German, but when talking about Bavarian-style Weissbier, it’s used more or less interchangeably with the similar sounding ‘Weizen,’ meaning ‘wheat.’ Berliner Weisse is something completely different, bearing, if anything, a slightly closer resemblance to Belgian-style white ales and sour ales than it does to southern German wheat beers.”

New Planet Beer: Per the blog, “As of the end of May, we were selling beer in 8 states: Arizona, Colorado, Idaho, Kansas, New Mexico, Oklahoma, Utah, and Wyoming. And… This June we’ll be selling beer in 4 more states: California, Florida, North Dakota, and Nebraska. We’ll continue this expansion with the plan to sell our beer in a total of 20 states by the end of the year. If we’re still not in your state by the end of the year, we’ll be working hard to distribute there in the near future!”

Oakshire Brewing: Bruine Van Brugge is the latest Single Batch series release.

Bonus I: The rising L.A. beer scene.

Bonus II: A terrific piece on The Bruery in OC Weekly.