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.
Another craft brewery is exploring a potential sale of the company. Melvin Brewing announced today it is seeking “a strategic partner” to “support and assist with current growth initiatives,” a process that could lead to the sale of the Alpine, Wyoming-based craft brewery.
Halfway through 2022, the beverage-alcohol industry is facing an unending wave of headwinds. Scott Scanlon, EVP of market research firm IRI’s beverage-alcohol vertical, shares the firm’s mid-year report card for the bev-alc industry. Scanlon strikes an optimistic tone for the beer category for the rest of 2022.
In the wake of Breakthru Beverage’s acquisition of J.J. Taylor’s beer business in Minnesota, Summit Brewing Company’s portfolio has moved to A-B house Capitol Beverage Sales in the Minneapolis-St. Paul area, with pieces of territory doled out to College City (A-B) and Dahlheimer Beverage, a Molson Coors house.
A judge in Orange County Superior Court has approved the sale of San Diego-based Modern Times Drinks to BX MT BAMF LLC – a limited liability company connected with Anaheim, California-based Brewery X – for $20 million.
Following the news that Stone Brewing Company is in the process of being sold to Japan’s Sapporo Holdings for $165 million, Stone CEO Maria Stipp and director of public relations and communications Lizzie Younkin spoke with Brewbound Friday morning about the proposed deal.
Stone Brewing Company is being sold to Sapporo Holdings, the two companies announced today.
A federal judge told Stone Brewing and Molson Coors to work out a post-trial injunction over the use of the word “stone” or end up on the wrong end of a court order that both companies may not like, according to Courthouse News Service.
Wicked Weed built its name in the craft brewing industry with sour beers, but in recent years under the ownership of Anheuser-Busch InBev, the Asheville, North Carolina-based brewery has found commercial success in craft beer’s most popular style space, IPAs.
The auction for San Diego’s Modern Times Beer Co. concluded Friday with an affiliate of Anaheim’s Brewery X, BX MT BAMF LLC, casting the “winning bid” at $20 million, according to Modern Times.
The Beer Institute (BI) has called the RTD regulatory changes signed into law last week in Vermont a “massive handout” for the spirits industry, and warned legislators of the impact it will have on taxpayers, in a blog post Thursday.
Two pioneering New England craft breweries are joining forces: Harpoon parent company Mass. Bay Brewing in Boston has struck a deal to acquire Long Trail Brewing Company in Bridgewater Corners, Vermont.
Non-alcoholic beer maker Athletic Brewing Company’s third production facility — a 150,000 sq. ft. brewery in Milford, Connecticut — officially opened today.
Like most tourist destinations during the pandemic, the last couple of years have been full of ups and downs for the Trapp Family Lodge and its brewery operation in Stowe, Vermont. Over the last two years, the resort experienced its “slowest tourism levels ever,” followed by its “highest tourism levels ever”, Sam von Trapp, executive vice president of Trapp Family Lodge and von Trapp Brewing, told Brewbound.
Since a jury awarded Stone Brewing a $56 million verdict on March 25 in its trademark infringement lawsuit against Molson Coors over a 2017 Keystone Light rebrand that separated “Key” and “Stone” on cans and packaging, the two companies have buried one another in post-trial filings and motions.
