Craft beer industry news.
After filing for Chapter 11 bankruptcy protection last year, Somerville Brewing Company is permanently closing its doors, according to a social media post Monday. Portland, Oregon-based Base Camp Brewing announced last week it will close its doors on August 9.
In any other year, 10 consecutive weeks of billion dollar off-premise beer category sales would be eye-opening. Consider that in all of 2019, there was just one week — the week of the July 4 holiday — in which beer category off-premise dollar sales topped $1 billion. Now, it’s a footnote in weekly reports.
Two Roads Brewing Co. and Rhythm Brewing Co. are standing with over 1,000 breweries across 19 countries in an attempt to bring global awareness to the injustices many of people of color face by taking part in the growing Black Is Beautiful beer campaign.
After only five years, TUPPS Brewery has outgrown its current location and will expand from 17,000 square feet to over 40,000 square feet on a 4.3-acre campus in the Historic Mill District of Downtown McKinney.
Flying Embers, the better-for-you alcohol brand, announces the launch of its new hard seltzer line – Flying Embers Hard Seltzer, the world’s first probiotic-powered hard seltzer with antioxidants and all USDA organic ingredients.
Brewing education pillar Siebel Institute of Technology and filling equipment leader Wild Goose Filling have joined forces to advance quality beverage packaging.
Brewed in San Diego, California, More Bounce takes XTECA’s classic Mexican Lager recipe and hits the switch on the hops for a dank, hoppy brew that is still sessionable at an ABV of 5.4%.
To celebrate Kings Island’s newest roller coaster, Sonder Brewing has crafted a Kings Island Orion®-inspired Giga Coaster Lager.
The leading “better-for-you” alcohol company, Fermented Sciences, Inc. DBA Flying Embers (“Flying Embers”), announced that it has closed $10-million of new funding, bringing the Company’s Series B total raised to $35 million.
In a time when off-premise beer sales top $1 billion weekly, without the on-premise half of the trade, the beer industry still has “a hole to dig out of,” National Beer Wholesalers Association chief economist Lester Jones said during a webinar presented by invoice tech firm Fintech.
Kalamazoo, Michigan-headquartered Bell’s Brewery will enter its 42nd state later this year, with the addition of distribution to Oklahoma. Bell’s, the seventh largest Brewers-Association-defined craft brewery, will be partnering with Republic National Distribution Company of Oklahoma.
Porch Pounder Premium Canned Wine is popping into coolers across 11 new states as one of the first producers to bring award-winning, vinted wines from California’s appellation vineyards to convenient and sustainable packaging.
The National Beer Wholesalers Association (NBWA) and National Association of Attorneys General Human Trafficking Committee Co-Chair Sean Reyes (R-UT) and committee member Maura Healey (D-MA) announced a new initiative to help combat human trafficking in the United States.
Dogfish Head’s Rehoboth brewpub proudly joins the more than 1,000 breweries worldwide participating in the Black Is Beautiful Initiative and collaboration brew, a collective effort to raise awareness of systemic racial injustice.
