Justin Kendall provides daily coverage of the beer industry on Brewbound.com, conducts live-streamed interviews during Brewbound’s events and co-produces the Brewbound podcast. Kendall is a nearly 20-year career journalist who led alt-weekly newspapers in Kansas City, Missouri, and Des Moines, Iowa.
Summit Brewing is working to find a path forward after its lender BMO Bank initiated a foreclosure action last week. The St. Paul, Minnesota-based craft brewery, on the verge of its 40th anniversary celebration next week, is pursuing “solutions that will allow us to obtain a new lender and fully activate our growth plan for the years to come,” CEO Brandon Bland shared with Brewbound.
While several brands are teaming up with slashers this Halloween, Tilray Brands is taking a sweeter route. The craft brewing conglomerate’s Shock Top brand is partnering with North America’s largest spooky season retailer, Spirit Halloween.
Once Minnesota’s largest craft brewery and one of the 25 largest in the country, St. Paul, Minnesota-based Summit Brewing Company is now facing bank foreclosure proceedings.
Constellation Brands’ portfolio of popular Mexican imports will soon have different representation in the Denver area. The bev-alc giant informed Denver, Colorado-based Coors Distributing Company (CDC), a wholly owned subsidiary of Molson Coors, that it would be terminating their relationship in the next 30 days.
Southern Glazer’s Wine & Spirits (SGWS) has entered into a non-prosecution agreement with the justice department and federal regulators to pay $12.5 million, resolving a probe into a years-long scheme to bribe alcohol buyers from California’s largest grocery chains.
The Middleby Corporation will shutter its Middleby Brewing & Distilling Solutions Group, which includes Deutsche Beverage + Process, Ss Brewtech and Wild Goose Filling, by the end of the year.
Athletic Brewing Company is adding two QB1s to its roster as “athlete-owners” as the NFL season kicks off tonight. New England Patriots quarterback Drake Maye and Dallas Cowboys quarterback Dak Prescott struck multi-year partnerships with the dedicated non-alcoholic beer maker and stakes in the business.
A fitness company appears to be the winner of last week’s auction for Rogue Ales & Spirits’ intellectual property, including the Rogue.com domain, the proprietary Pacman yeast strain and trademarks for Rogue and Dead Guy, among other assets.
Pabst Brewing CEO Greig DeBow has offered a $20,000 reward for 1,602 cases of the Pabst Blue Ribbon maker’s beer he alleges was stolen in California last month.
Martignetti Companies is expanding its New England footprint again. The beer, wine and spirits distributor has struck a definitive agreement to acquire Girardi Distributors, LLC, a Massachusetts-based, independent Anheuser-Busch InBev (A-B) distributor.
The spiked sports drink gold rush is on, but two players have already established themselves at the top of the burgeoning “vodka + ade” drink segment. Following the success of Surfside Iced Tea + Vodka, Stateside has another hit in its portfolio with the addition of Super Lyte, which launched earlier this year.