Firestone Walker’s can line at its Paso Robles, California production brewery will be running “24 hours a day, seven days a week” in the next couple of months, CEO Nick Firestone shared during Beer Marketer’s Insights conference earlier this month.

Sam Calagione is in a creative groove. The Dogfish Head co-founder is on the verge of releasing a collaboration full-proof whiskey in collaboration with Rolling Stone magazine. He recently wrote a column for the magazine on the 1976 overlap of punk, hip-hop and craft beer. And his 31-year-old craft brewery finished Q1 up, still trucking behind its Grateful Dead collaboration beers and spirits-based canned cocktails.

Zipline Brewing Company, Nebraska’s largest craft brewery, has ceased brewing operations and closed its taproom and beer lounge in Lincoln, “effective immediately,” the company announced Thursday on Facebook.

Boston Beer Company claims it didn’t receive a “fair trial” due to “errors” throughout its breach of contract case with Ardagh Metal Group, which last month received a $175.5 million jury award, plus millions in pre-judgment interest.

JuneShine Brands isn’t stressing about November’s federal ban on hemp-derived THC products, which could wipe out its fast-growing Willie’s Remedy+ brand.

The Reyes Beverage Group’s 50th year is its biggest yet. The nation’s largest beer distributor completed the biggest acquisition in company history last week for 11 RNDC markets, making it the No. 3 wine and spirits distributor in the U.S. And the company’s dealmaking ambitions aren’t close to done – in and out of beer.

Ready-to-drink canned cocktail brand Carbliss is open to potential acquirers, co-founder Adam Kroener made clear Wednesday at Beer Marketer’s Insights spring meeting. “Everything’s for sale,” Kroener said during a panel conversation that included SpikedAde co-founder and CEO Jason Cohen and Happy Dad co-founder and CEO Sam Shahidi.

A U.S. District Court has entered a $175.5 million amended final judgment – plus $15.5 million in pre-judgment interest – against Boston Beer Company for allegedly failing to purchase contracted minimums of aluminum cans from Ardagh Metal Packaging USA between 2021 and 2025, according to a June 1 8K filed by Boston Beer.

Columbia Distributing and Hayden Beverage are officially linking up in the Pacific Northwest. Columbia is making a “strategic investment” in Hayden, signing a letter of intent to acquire a stake in the family-owned Idaho distribution company.

A pair of independent red network distributors struck a deal in Central New York. Sheehan Family Companies subsidiary T.J. Sheehan Distributing is set to acquire Eagle Beverage Company, adding around 3 million cases to its business.

The parent company of Press Premium Alcohol Seltzer has entered receivership in Milwaukee County Circuit Court, with nearly $7 million owed to Constellation Brands’ venture capital arm, the Milwaukee Business Journal reported.

The first major piece of RNDC’s territory fire sale is now complete. Reyes’ mega deal for 11 RNDC markets closed at the end of business on Friday, adding 38 million cases to its more than 360-million-case business.

BrewDog co-founder James Watt’s second act in beer is Second Best – and he’s offering a percentage of the new venture to his original craft brewery’s investors, who were shut out of proceeds following BrewDog’s sale to Tilray Brands earlier this year.

Kirin-owned New Belgium Brewing – including the Voodoo Ranger-powered New Belgium brand and Bell’s Brewery – now ranks as the largest non-Brewers Association craft beer family, overtaking Molson Coors’ craft brands, according to data released in the trade organization’s May/June edition of the New Brewer magazine.