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.
Two of the largest beer manufacturers in the U.S. are linking up. Molson Coors Beverage Company and D.G. Yuengling & Son announced today a joint venture and long-term brewing partnership to expand distribution of the Pottsville, Pennsylvania-headquartered brewery’s beer beyond East Coast markets.
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.
A majority of Americans support extending federal excise tax cuts that were enacted as part of the Tax Cuts and Jobs Act in 2017, according to a survey commissioned by industry trade group the Beer Institute (BI).
Deschutes founder Gary Fish was up-front with wholesalers during the Bend, Oregon-headquartered craft brewery’s virtual distributor summit held earlier this week.
Some Florida bars and breweries that don’t serve food will be able to reopen for service at 50% capacity on Monday. Halsey Beshears, Florida’s secretary of the Department of Business and Professional Regulation, tweeted Thursday evening that Gov. Ron DeSantis had rescinded the executive order that forced them to close in June.
Several West Coast breweries are closing for outdoor service and some have been evacuated due to several wildfires and the impact on air quality in California, Oregon and Washington.
Employees at two different Minneapolis craft breweries have attempted to unionize in recent weeks, with varying degrees of success. Employees of Fair State Brewing Cooperative on Wednesday announced their decision to join Unite Here Local 17, a Twin Cities hospitality workers union, the same union that workers at Surly Brewing Company announced their intention to join last week.
Delivering on its promise to expand beyond alcoholic beverages into an “around the clock” beverage platform, Molson Coors Beverage Company announced this week the launch of four new non-alcoholic product lines across multiple categories that are set to begin rolling out in the coming months.
Fresh Squeezed IPA and Fresh Haze IPA, side-by-side on the shelf. Deschutes VP of sales and marketing Neal Stewart made the ask no fewer than 22 times on Wednesday during the Bend, Oregon-headquartered craft brewery’s distributor summit.
After successfully extending the Truly Hard Seltzer brand with Truly Lemonade Seltzer — which has quickly become Truly’s second-best selling SKU — Boston Beer will debut Truly Iced Tea Hard Seltzer nationwide early next year.
What does Boston Beer Company founder Jim Koch have in common with Oprah Winfrey, an heir to the Hyatt Hotel fortune, an heiress to Estée Lauder, the co-founder of Uber, and the owner of the NFL’s Washington Football Team?
Atlantic — a Holliston, Massachusetts-based craft beer, wine and spirits importer and wholesaler — announced today the acquisition of the operations of Bayside Distributors, which is also based in Holliston. The transaction will add 400,000 cases and $10 million in additional revenue to Atlantic’s business. Atlantic currently distributes 1.5 million cases of product.
For the first time since April, off-premise beer category dollar sales dipped below $1 billion, to $987 million, for the one-week ending August 29, according to market research firm Nielsen.
