Jessica Infante joined Brewbound in 2019 after nearly a decade in a variety of marketing roles in the craft beer industry. Prior to that, she was a daily newspaper reporter at the Jersey Shore. Jess holds a bachelor’s degree in magazine journalism from the S.I. Newhouse School of Public Communications at Syracuse University and a master’s degree in integrated marketing communication from Emerson College. She is a certified Cicerone and lives in Salem, Massachusetts.
Shea Hearsum Cusick Named New Maine Brewers Guild Executive Director The Maine Brewers Guild has tapped Shea Hearsum Cusick as its new executive director, effective May 1. Cusick joined the guild from Scarborough, Maine-based Nonesuch River Brewing, where she served as sales manager for nearly four years. In addition to her role at Nonesuch, Cusick… Read more »
On the same day Founders Brewing announced it had permanently closed its Detroit location, a former employee filed a lawsuit against the company claiming the taproom’s work environment was “so objectively racially hostile that she had no choice but to resign.”
Spirits-based, ready-to-drink (RTD) canned cocktail brand Fishers Island Lemonade has agreed to be acquired by Spirit of Gallo, the spirits division of E. & J. Gallo, the companies announced today in a press release.
Following two months of positive trends, total beer category ordering by distributors ticked downward in this month’s Beer Purchasers’ Index (BPI), the National Beer Wholesalers Association (NBWA) reported.
Tilray-owned Montauk Brewing will open two new branded spaces at Citi Field, the home of the New York Mets in time for the 2023 MLB season. The Lost Abbey has entered an alternating proprietorship with Vista, California-based Mother Earth Brew Co. The Bruery is shuttering its Washington, D.C., location after six years in operation.
A federal judge has dismissed a proposed class action lawsuit alleging that Topo Chico Margarita Hard Seltzer is deceptively labeled because it is fermented and lacks tequila.
The Florida Department of Business and Professional Regulation (DBPR) has filed two complaints against Blue Cloud Distributing, alleging the PepsiCo subsidiary violated statute in nine license applications for its locations across the state.
Two of Anheuser-Busch InBev’s top marketing executives are on leave amid conservatives’ call to boycott the Bud Light brand for a marketing activation with social media influencer and transwoman Dylan Mulvaney during March Madness.
New Jersey’s largest craft brewery has struck a deal to acquire one of the state’s oldest. Cape May Brewing announced today it will acquire Flying Fish Brewing Company in Somerdale, New Jersey. Financial terms of the deal, which is set to close next month, were not disclosed.
Scottish-headquartered craft brewer BrewDog has shuttered its pub in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, marking its second U.S. pub closure in less than a year.
Allagash Brewing will move to the Reyes Beverage Group in some parts of California, a spokesperson for the Portland, Maine-headquartered craft brewery told Brewbound.
BarrelHouse Brewing Co. has purchased Sherwood Field Hangar, a historic airplane hangar in Paso Robles, California, and the surrounding property, which will house the brewery’s new production facility.
