shiner beer

Bay State fans of Shiner beer will no long need to cross state lines to pick of a case of the Texas brew.

Gambrinus, the fourth-largest craft brewery in the nation, will bring Shiner to Massachusetts later this month, Brewbound reports.

The flagship Shiner Bock will be the first bottles stocked on shelves, along with seasonal offerings.

“It’s one of the top five craft brewers in the country and we think it will resonate in Boston and cut through some of the clutter,” Scott Adams, Burke Distributing’s vice president of sales, told Brewbound. The Randolph-based Burke Distributing will be the Boston distributor. “We are extremely excited to partner with them.”

Spoetzle Brewery, which owned by Gambrinus, currently produces nine Shiner beers year-round and four seasonal brews annually. Of the 645,000 barrels of beer they produced last year, 73 percent was Bock.

“We are not launching this brand to just have a great 2014 or 2015,” Adams told Brewbound. “We are launching this brand so it can be strong in 2025 and 2035 and we are going to take the right steps to make sure the brand is around for another 100 years in Boston.”

In an effort to expand their national distribution, Shiner recently launched in Connecticut and Rhode Island. Gambrinus hopes to bring the beer to other New England states as well, working to appoint distributors in Maine, New Hampshire and Vermont.

As the company wrote on Facebook in May, "We're taking on New England, one Bock lover at a time."