Hello Wonderful People, Tonight we announce the second beer in our Kwik Series collaboration with Kwik Trip – Hot Spot Hazy IPA! This. Beer. Is. Awesome! We had a lot of fun with the beer and developing the label for the cans. My personal favorite character is “The Hotdog” because it’s just so stupid hahaha […]

Hi Everyone, We announced with Kwik Trip last night that another batch of Glazer Bean is hitting the streets starting today.  Attached to this post is the delivery schedule and allocations for each store that is receiving more Glazer Bean.  We were blown away by the response to this beer and want to provide you […]

Hello to all of you frozen people!  “Winter is coming,” is an understatement this week.  Who else can’t wait for the next season of GoT?!  I miss Ned… Time for turkey – As I updated you all in the 1/9 blog post, the majority of defective glass was quarantined almost immediately.  Today, our network has been […]

Hello Everyone, I want to first thank all of you, our wonderful customers, for being so gracious in working through this glass recall.  The overwhelming majority of you have been incredibly supportive and have shown us great mercy.  Our hearts are warmed and our resolve is strengthened by every nice comment and the cooperative spirit you […]

Karben4 Announces Voluntary Recall Amid Glass Manufacturer Defect   Madison, WI (January 2, 2019) – Karben4 announced today that it was voluntarily recalling certain of its beer bottles after being notified by its bottle manufacturer of a potential flaw in certain bottles.  The recall involves all bottles that were filled  between November 8 and December […]

As some of you may have noticed, Fantasy Factory cans are here!  We filled the first 1,600 cases of cans on July 31st and they are making their way across the state as I type this post.  This is a very exciting step for Karben4 that will help get our beloved flagship beer into more […]

This past Fall, when I first started drafting this particular blog post we had just installed our 13th and final fermenting tank.  That tank was a 40bbl tank and we treat it like a 45bbl tank when we run our lower yield pale ales through it (i.e. mostly Fantasy Factory).  In this configuration the brewery […]

We are going to can Fantasy Factory in 2018! We project that we will have about 2-3k bbls of production capacity where we can brew Fantasy Factory and then have a contract packaging facility put our prized beer into cans for us.  As a point of emphasis, we will be making the beer in our […]

2018 is a very interesting year for craft beer all around the country.  In some instances, breweries are growing like crazy and local markets are just getting started.  Usually there was an antiquated state law that was preventing the craft beer market from thriving.  Local folks lobby to get the laws updated and bang – […]

When I was asked to share my feelings about the past five years, my initial tendency was to be generically nostalgic and fairly concise.  I have never really posted anything on social media or anywhere else online.  But I have been encouraged by my team to say much more; the story from behind the green […]