Round 1 of today’s beer notes update.

Flying Dog Brewery: Per the Seattle Times, “The pullback leaves Flying Dog in 33 states, but probably not for long. In a July interview at the brewing plant in an industrial park, Caruso said he aims to shrink distribution further, with a goal of selling 70 percent of Flying Dog’s output in Maryland, the District of Columbia and Northern Virginia within three years. The region accounts for about 50 percent of the 1 million cases Flying Dog sells annually.”

New Glarus Brewing: From the same article, annual production is exceeding 100,000 barrels and sales are running 20 percent above last year.

Four Peaks Brewing: Sales are up 27% from last year and the brewery is looking for a location in Mesa (AZ).

Half Acre Beer Co.: “We’ve brewed a variant of Double Daisy Cutter we’re calling Galactic Double Daisy Cutter. This version highlights Galaxy hops, a bruiser grown in Australia specifically to make pallets numb. We’re giving this one some time to relax in the tank, but it’s looking like it will land in our brewery store on August 12th. Should that change in any way, then we’ll let you know. We will be selling bombers and growlers. We’re even going to throw some wax on this one…” Limit and pricing info.

Short’s Brewing: From Facebook, “We’re getting a TON of inquiries about the bottle release of Key Lime Pie. It will be available in stores in mid to late August.” Also a special note on this weekend’s Short’s Fest, “We have extremely limited edition 6-packs for sale at this event: Cornholio (the Dogfish Head collaboration beer) and Captain Fantasy (this year’s collaboration with Half Acre). However, we are not able to fill growlers at this event.”

Flossmoor Station: A bunch of new beers…

Pretty Things Beer and Ale Project: Per the brewery website, “Magnifico is a project we’ve been thinking about for quite some time: a highly drinkable, full flavoured low gravity beer. For this we weren’t talking about close-to-5% either, but much smaller. On brew day we set our sights on 8 degrees Plato (i.e. a VERY low amount of sugars to start with) to make a 2.5% beer, but we hit 8.3. The beer fermented down a tad more than we thought it would, which is how we ended up at 3.4%.” This beer is only available on draught in Massachusetts.

Sixpoint: Brews headed to D.C. through Legends says the Washington City Paper.

SweetWater Brewery: Per the newsletter, Crank Tank Rye’d Ale returns on August 23rd.

Bonus I: Another brewery in the works in Jacksonville…

Bonus II: Bomb style beer packaging (not real, just a concept)