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Zoe Licata
Senior Reporter, Brewbound.com
Zoe Licata joined Brewbound in 2021 after several years of freelance reporting and documentary work. She’s a Massachusetts native, guinea pig for bev-alc innovation and savant in Gen Z culture.
Oskar Blues founder Dale Katechis will join Colorado-based cannabis company Veritas as a partner who “will play an active role in strategic growth initiatives for the brand,” a spokesperson told Brewbound. Katechis founded Oskar Blues in Lyons, Colorado, in 1997. The brewery grew to become the 14th-largest craft brewery by volume in the U.S. in 2015, when Fireman Capital Partners acquired a majority stake in it.
Ready-to-drink (RTD) canned cocktails’ share of Drizly sales is growing at 15 times the rate of hard seltzer, according to e-commerce alcohol marketplace Drizly’s 2021 Consumer Report.
Production workers for Ohio’s Great Lakes Brewing Company went public Sunday with an effort to form a union, with help from the United Steelworkers union.
YouTube stars the Nelk Boys are partnering with Atlantic Beverage Distributors to expand distribution of Happy Dad Hard Seltzer into Massachusetts and Rhode Island.
Consulting firm BW166 reported that label approvals for seltzer and seltzer-like products are accelerating, with approvals trending at 334 per month compared to the 228 per month in 2020. More than half (53%) of on-premise visitors went to a bar or restaurant during the July 4 weekend, according to CGA, an on-premise market research firm.
Brooklyn-headquartered Other Half Brewing will set up shop in the former Goose Island brewery and taproom in Philadelphia’s Fishtown neighborhood, the Philadelphia Inquirer reported earlier this week.
Hard seltzer accounted for 28% of beer category sales on Drizly over the July 4 weekend, up 2% from 2020, according to the on-demand, e-commerce alcohol delivery platform.
Searching for ways to honor her close family friend and others like him, Beer Kulture CEO Latiesha Cook tried to find programs that would help Black men further their careers. There were very few to be found.
Anheuser-Busch InBev CEO Carlos Brito officially passed the torch Thursday to Michel Doukeris after 15 years with the world’s largest beer manufacturer.
