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Canadian non-alcoholic beer maker Partake Brewing has raised $4 million in the company’s first institutional funding round, which was led by San Francisco-based CircleUp Growth Partners.

Another craft brewery is entering the growing craft non-alcoholic beer market. Boston Beer Company will launch a Samuel Adams branded non-alcoholic hazy IPA, Just the Haze, nationally in early 2021.

Anheuser-Busch InBev has begun the search process for replacing long-time CEO Carlos Brito, according to a report Monday in the Financial Times. The Financial Times, citing three sources with knowledge of the search, reported that A-B is “seriously considering” external candidates.

Inglewood, California-based Crowns & Hops Brewing and Scotland-headquartered BrewDog have teamed up for an international release of 8 Trill Pils pilsner within Crowns & Hops California footprint and at BrewDog locations in Ohio, the U.K. and Berlin, Germany.

Both Sierra Nevada and New Glarus will keep their taprooms and tour operations shuttered until the end of the year at the earliest.

A new generation of leaders is taking the reins at New Ulm, Minnesota-based Schell’s Brewery, as Ted Marti steps down from overseeing operations at the 160-year-old brewery and hands the reins to his sons, according to the Mankato Free Press.

New Jersey restaurants are permitted to resume indoor dining at 25% capacity beginning today, Gov. Phil Murphy announced earlier this week. Last week, Iowa Gov. Kim Reynolds issued a proclamation forcing the closure of drinking establishments for on-premise service in six counties as the state combats a spike in cases of COVID-19.

The fundamental changes in everyday life brought on by the COVID-19 pandemic have affected the beer industry’s supply chain in ways both expected and unexpected. With bars and restaurants closed for on-site service for months, the evaporating demand for draft beer forced brewers to package more beer than ever before, creating a shortage of cans.

Just ahead of the Labor Day holiday weekend, Anheuser-Busch today launched its next hard seltzer, Bud Light Platinum Seltzer, nationwide.

This week’s edition of Brewbound Frontlines brings together the owners of a pair of breweries that drinkers typically flock to from coast to coast, as well as a tourism company with a division that crafts trips to explore the beer, wine and food of various destinations. Tune into the discussion at 3 p.m. ET on Thursday, September 3.

Two days after a majority of its hospitality employees announced their intention to unionize, Minneapolis-based Surly Brewing Company announced it will close its beer hall indefinitely beginning November 2.

After 14 years, Phil Leinhart is no longer the brewmaster at Brewery Ommegang. Leinhart, who joined Duvel Moortgat USA-owned, Cooperstown, New York-based craft brewery in January 2007, confirmed his exit from the company.

If economic conditions in the United States worsen via recession or inflation, 39% of consumers said they wouldn’t cut back on purchases of beer or wine to save money, according to a survey conducted by Nielsen of 18,000 consumers from July 1-8.

Stone Brewing’s 2020 CEO search didn’t take a year to complete. In fact, it took less than a month. The Escondido, California-headquartered craft brewery announced today the hiring of former Lagunitas Brewing CEO Maria Stipp as its next CEO.