New Beer Filings — Week of July 6, 2026

404 filings this week against an 8-week average of 346, and lager is the one dragging the number up: 410 filings over the last four weeks versus 344 the four before that. Not a blip. That's Peak Day's Helles with actual Hallertau Mittelfrüh listed, Rhaner's Dunkel quoting the Reinheitsgebot straight off the label, Gran Vía calling itself "100% beer, zero show off." Meanwhile Anchorage Brewing alone filed five beers this week, three of them Double IPAs stacked with Citra and Krush and Nectaron, and I can't tell if that's a distributor deadline or just how Anchorage operates now.

I'm telling you: the lager filings aren't nostalgia anymore, they're a category correction. IPA still wins on raw count, 133 to lager's 117, but the growth curve says lager is where breweries are actually placing new bets this month, not IPA.

• Necessary Evil — Anchorage Brewing · Double IPA · 10.6% — Citra, Strata, Riwaka, Krush. DDH. Collaboration with Brujos. →

• High Horse — Anchorage Brewing · Double IPA · 9% · Nectaron, Citra Incognito, Nelson Sauvin. Brujos collab. →

• Black Barrel and the Bad Men — Anchorage Brewing · Wild/Brett · 6% — Fermented in Missouri Oak Foeders for a year, finished on blackberries. A collaboration with a local band, not another brewery; the label's the story. →

• Nobosuma — Brujos Brewing · Double IPA · 12.2% — The label says "crafting liquid spells" and means it. Hazy imperial at the top of the ABV range. →

• Peak Day — Levante Brewing · Helles · 4.8% · Hallertau Mittelfrüh. →

• Bylina — Narrow Gauge Brewing · Smoked Beer · 3.4% — Czech Saaz in a smoked beer at under 3.5% ABV is not the move most breweries make. →

• 49 Lager — Scratch Brewing · Lager · 6.2% — Lagered version of their farmhouse beer, brewed with 49 leaves, roots, bark, fruit, and funghi. The specificity alone earns it. →

• Solar Crush Blood Orange Ale — Snoqualmie Falls Brewery · Fruit Beer · 5.9% — A collaboration with Sunergy Systems. The synergy marketing writes itself; the beer has to justify the copy. →

• Chill Rasputin — North Coast Brewing · Stout · 4.5% — A riff on Old Rasputin, dialed back to sessionable. The name choice reads like a dare. →

• Middle Child — Grey Sail Brewing · American Pale Ale · 6.6% — Brewed for their 15th anniversary as a blend of Captain's Daughter and Little Sister. The naming logic is sound. →

• Conchtoberfest — Carib Brewery USA · Märzen · 5.5% — German tradition via Caribbean tradition, canned. A seasonal that lands early. →

• Not Not Pizza — Twelve78 Brewing · Fruited Lager · 5% — A collaboration project with "not pizza." The label math is deliberately broken: "5.5 + 0.0 + 0." →

• 404 filings this week; 8-week average now 346.4/wk
• Lager climbed to 410 filings over the past month, up from 344 the month before — a 19% swing
• IPA still leads overall with 133 filings this week; Lager is 117
• Kegs outnumber cans by nearly 2:1 — 150 draft vs. 253 packaged (the inverse of shelf reality)
• 33 imported beers in the queue, mostly European

Stat of the week: Lager filings have risen 19% month-over-month. Either breweries are banking on a shift, or they've all watched the same data.

We're picking these ourselves until you tell us what lands on your radar. Four beers worth the hunt:

• Necessary Evil — Anchorage Brewing, 10.6% DIPA, Citra/Strata/Riwaka/Krush, DDH. Collaboration with Brujos. Five distinct hops in the charge; the dry-hop bill reads like a deliberate argument. →

• Peak Day — Levante Brewing, 4.8% Helles, Hallertau Mittelfrüh. A helles built on one hop is either a masterclass or a confession. →

• Jungle Juice Sour — 2 Row Brewing, 7.5% fruited sour: apples, cherries, grapes, pears, peaches, lemons. Six fruits. Either restraint died or they know something about layering. →

• Voisine — Vista Brewing, 6.5% Saison, named for their neighbors' grape farm. The story's printed on the label. →

See the filing →

Woodcut block print, full stop. Auval's Espinay commits to the two-color red-and-bone palette so hard it looks hand-pulled off a linocut, right down to the ragged double border that never quite closes its corners. That little swallow with the sprig, tucked between the ABV and the "OAK AGED STRONG ALE" line, is the kind of detail you only notice on a second look, which is exactly what a good label should earn. No credited artist in the fine print, but I'd bet money it's the same hand behind Auval's other releases.

Nine filings, one beer, twelve days, and a name that couldn't decide how to spell itself.

Start on June 28. Latin American Traders LLC, an importer, files four COLAs in a single day: 26179001000117, ...118, ...120, ...123. The brand on three of them reads "Galio." One reads "Cerveza Artesanal Bichola" filed the same week by a different importer entirely, which is its own story, but stay with Galio. The producer of record listed alongside it: Cerveceria Centroamericana.

July 7 (26188), the same importer files again. This time the brand is "Gallo" — one letter swapped, i changed to a — under filing 26188001000

Sitting on the lanai with a Howzit Brewing Local Legend, watching the sunset do the thing it does here, and thinking about how 404 filings is either a lot or nothing at all depending on whether you're the one reading them.