The fallout from Ball Corporation’s updates to craft brewers and other small customers about increased minimum order quantities continues to reverberate. In addition to Ball raising minimum order quantities for printed cans from one truckload (204,000 cans) to five (1,020,000 cans), the price of 12 oz. cans will increase nearly 28%, from $93.23 to $119.11 per 1,000 cans, according to an updated pricing sheet obtained by Brewbound.
The Professional Bowlers Association (PBA) announced a multi-year partnership that makes Pabst Blue Ribbon, America’s lager, the Official Beer Partner of the PBA.
Ball, the world’s largest manufacturer of aluminum beverage cans, has informed customers without contracts that minimum quantities for orders of printed cans are increasing to five truckloads per SKU and that the company will no longer provide warehouse services for its customers, according to a post shared by the Brewers Association.
Telluride Brewing Co announces their first ever Winter Jam 2021, featuring the release of five unique and badass brews, ranging from fan favorites to never before seen releases.
The Colorado Liquid Arts, a collective that includes the Colorado Association for Viticulture & Enology (CAVE), the Colorado Brewers Guild (CBG), the Colorado Cider Guild and the Colorado Distillers Guild, is proud to announce the addition of a new statewide passport.
Just in time for Thanksgiving, NÜTRL Vodka Seltzer announces a limited-release cranberry variety pack featuring four flavors: Classic Cranberry, Cranberry Orange, Cranberry Grapefruit and Cranberry Apple.
Escondido, California-based Stone Distributing has added San Diego-based Ashland Hard Seltzer and El Segundo Brewing to its Southern California portfolio.
Beer industry leaders gathered in Manhattan earlier this week for Beer Marketer’s Insights’ first in-person seminar since 2019. The day — which included an agenda packed with interviews of the CEOs of the U.S. operations of some of the world’s largest beer manufacturers and leaders of two of the largest craft beer companies in the country — left some financial analysts feeling “more optimistic on the industry,” Goldman Sachs equity research analyst Bonnie Herzog wrote in a report following the event.
The biggest, the smallest, most award-winning, and still the only Jewish beer company in America, Shmaltz Brewing Company announces its farewell season after 25 years in the beer business with the first and final release of Bittersweet Lenny’s RIPA in 16oz cans, vintage gems from the Shmaltz beer vault, and a fitting tribute, Exodus 2021 Barleywine Ale (8.8% ABV) brewed with Date, Fig, Pomegranate, and Grape.
