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February 7, 2024, 2:30 PM Central Standard Time SHAKOPEE– Rahr Corporation, a family-owned, global supplier of specialty and premium products in the food and beverage industry, announced plans to combine its Rahr Malting Co. and BSG business units, including all operations and commercial activity, creating a new business unit, RahrBSG. Effective today, this new business […]

Gambrinus Honey Malted Oats came about by combining the best of two great things: the flavor characteristics of Gambrinus Honey Malt and the ongoing popularity of New England-style and hazy IPAs. Using Rahr Malted Oats and Gambrinus Honey Malt as product controls, the team at the Rahr Technical Center worked to home in on the […]

The year is 1992, George H.W. Bush is the president, Brian Mulroney is Canada’s Prime Minister, and the Toronto Blue Jays are on the way to winning their first World Series. In the world of beer, the craft movement is just getting started: there are 359 breweries in the US (now approaching 10,000) and less […]

You may have noticed something different about BSG lately … Starting with the 2022 Craft Brewers Conference in May, and continuing through the year, we’re rolling out our new, refreshed brand. In fact, you might have already seen our new logo on our websites, in trade publications, or maybe even on hats at your local […]

The USDA’s hop breeding program made news again when its latest public hop variety was announced earlier this spring. Vista – the hop formerly known as USDA Experimental #074 – was bred in 2006 at the USDA’s Agricultural Research Station in Corvallis, OR. Its ancestry includes Perle, Northern Brewer, and Hallertauer, and it was selected […]

The Southern Hemisphere hop harvest is in full swing! BSG partners with NZ Hops Ltd. to bring the best of New Zealand hops to brewers. This cooperative of master growers, based in Nelson, New Zealand, is sharing the experience on social media – follow along at @nzhops for a virtual front row seat at #HarFest2022.   2022 Crop Outlook […]

BSG partners with New Zealand Hops Ltd. to bring the best of New Zealand hops to brewers. New Zealand Hops Ltd. Is a cooperative of growers who, through their work with New Zealand Plant and Food Research and the New Zealand Hop Research Committee, have brought the craft brewing world some of the most exciting varieties of the past few decades, including … 

Effective December 4, 2020, Rahr Corporation has purchased the outstanding 51% of Koda Energy from the Shakopee Mdewakanton Sioux Community (SMSC) and Koda is now a wholly owned subsidiary of Rahr. 

BSG is lending our support to the Black Is Beautiful Collaboration Beer Initiative. We are offering free Cascade hops (per the recipe) to breweries to be used for their Black Is Beautiful collaboration beers. While the hops are free of charge, breweries are only responsible to cover the cost of shipping. The quantity of Cascade hops is limited and is available on a first come, first served basis. BSG is only able to support breweries in the United States and Canada.  Please contact your sales mangers or customer service representative or email juno@bsgcraft.com for more information on how to participate.  To learn more about the Black Is Beautiful Collaboration Beer Initiative, including supporting documents and images, please visit: https://blackisbeautiful.beer/

All Together is a worldwide, open-ended beer collaboration created to raise support for the industry we love so much. 

“This level of certification puts BSG’s Wapato facility in very rare company in the hop industry,” says BSG Quality Assurance Manager Brandon Pierce. “Only a select few hop merchants or processors are FSSC certified. This represents a lot of hard work from a large cross-functional team.”

We’re excited to announce the opening of a new distribution centre in Airdrie, AB!  Located approximately 20 minutes north of Calgary, the Airdrie facility joins our existing Canadian distribution centres in Montreal, QC, Guelph, ON, and Delta, BC. The addition of this new facility will allow us to provide better service, expanded availability of ingredients and […]