Night Shift Brewing is headed to Pennsylvania — just not with as big of a splash as the Everett, Massachusetts-headquartered craft brewery had once hoped.

The COVID-19 pandemic has undoubtedly hurt a lot of businesses in the craft brewing industry. But a theme starting to emerge from some brewers: August was their “best month ever.” Count Night Shift among them.

Massachusetts-headquartered Night Shift Distributing is moving into Connecticut in mid-October. Michael Oxton and Rob Burns, who co-founded the brewery in 2012 and the wholesaler in 2016 with Michael O’Mara, told Brewbound today that they plan to build the distribution business in the neighboring New England state from the ground up, similar to how they did in Massachusetts.

Seattle-based Fremont Brewing reopened its beer garden on Sunday after a temporary closure following an employee testing positive for COVID-19. Six weeks after calling off its Philadelphia expansion, Everett, Massachusetts-based Night Shift Brewing may add another taproom location in Natick, Massachusetts, in early 2021, according to the Natick Report.

Nearly nine months after announcing their plans for a new $12 million brewery and taproom in Philadelphia, the founders of Everett, Massachusetts-headquartered Night Shift Brewing today announced they have abandoned the plan and reached an agreement with their landlord to terminate the lease on the 130,000 sq. ft. facility.

A growing number of beer companies are now positioning themselves as beverage companies. Count Everett, Massachusetts-based Night Shift Brewing among those embracing the distinction.

Cape May Brewing Company and Night Shift Brewing of Everett, Massachusetts, are pleased to announce a collaboration beer: Brewberry, an Imperial Stout with coffee and blueberry, is brewed with coffee roasted by Night Shift in their recent expansion into coffee roasting.

Night Shift Brewing announces today a distribution partnership with Amoskeag Beverages LLC to fulfill the demand of craft beverage enthusiasts who have long awaited Night Shift’s entry into New Hampshire, many of whom are already Night Shift fans.

BOSTON — Night Shift Distributing proudly announces a partnership with Loverboy, a new line of naturally sweetened, gluten-free sparkling hard teas, introducing the brand in Massachusetts following its release to the New York market in July 2019. Loverboy, founded by entrepreneur and reality TV Star Kyle Cooke – best known for BRAVO TV’s Summer House –… Read more »

Charlotte, North Carolina-based Sycamore Brewing added distribution to Virginia this month, vice president of sales Archie Gleason told Brewbound. Night Shift Brewing will begin distribution to New Hampshire in 2020, according to a Facebook post from Amoskeag Beverages.

In the latest edition of Last Call: California’s Yurok Tribe to acquire Mad River Brewing; Boston Beer discontinues Marathon Brewing’s 26.2 Brew; Night Shift to launch a hard seltzer line; and more news.

Amherst Brewing and Night Shift Brewing have joined forces to brew another IPA using an ancient Norwegian yeast. Drop the Chain was brewed for The Great Mass Collab, a beer fest happening in Worcester on September 21st.

The nearly decade-long debate over Massachusetts’ controversial franchise laws resumed Monday, as the state’s craft brewers and beer wholesalers packed a meeting of the Joint Committee on Consumer Protection and Professional Licensure. Brewers and wholesalers remain divided on how to reform strict franchise laws, which brewers claim lock their businesses into nearly unbreakable relationships with wholesalers. Each side presented revised proposals, which they argued would benefit each other.