Jack’s Abby Craft Lagers and sister brand Springdale Beer Company have signed with Sheehan Family Companies to distribute its offerings statewide in Massachusetts, the company announced today. Sheehan subsidiaries Craft Massachusetts (Boston, central and western Massachusetts), L. Knife & Son (southeastern Massachusetts), and Seaboard Products (northeastern Massachusetts) will begin distributing Jack’s Abby products starting today.
Molson Coors Beverage Company announced today plans to upgrade its Burton-upon-Trent brewery in the United Kingdom. The £25 million investment (about $34.6 million) will add a canning line dedicated to hard seltzer for the company’s Three Fold Hard Seltzer brand and upgrade packaging facilities for beer and cider.
The first collaboration between SweetWater Brewing Company and its now parent company Tilray (which merged in May with Aphria) became clearer today with the announced launch of BC Lager, a collaboration beer between the Atlanta craft brewery and the Canadian cannabis firm’s Broken Coast brand.
Canadian cannabis company HEXO Corp. has established its U.S. presence with the acquisition of a production facility in Fort Collins, Colorado. “This will be the first expansion into the U.S. market,” HEXO general manager of U.S. operations Charles Bowman told Brewbound. “There’s more forthcoming, but this is the bedrock. This is our foundation.”
Six new alcohol laws will go into effect in Virginia starting July 1 — and a seventh on January 1, 2022. The state Alcoholic Beverage Control Authority (ABC) recently explained those laws, from the extension of cocktails to-go sales, to “low-alcohol beverages” sales in ABC stores, with the state of emergency, which was brought on by the COVID-19 pandemic, is set to expire on June 30.
Great Lakes Brewing, the 35-year-old Ohio craft brewery, recently underwent a self-reflection: “How do we continue to attract new consumers, when many of today’s drinkers were in diapers at our brewery’s founding?”
New York Gov. Andrew Cuomo ended the state’s state of emergency on Thursday, which meant the expiration of delivery and to-go privileges granted to breweries, bars and restaurants during the pandemic. The New Jersey bill (S.B. 3452) that would have brought the state excise tax rate on spirits-based, ready-to-drink canned cocktails in line with beer has been pulled from consideration for now, sources confirmed with Brewbound.
BevNET is proud to announce its inaugural Cocktail Showdown, a pitch competition that will showcase the most innovative and disruptive brands in the rapidly emerging category of spirit-based ready-to-drink and ready-to-pour cocktails. Taking place on August 12, 2021, the competition will be presented as a virtual platform for the hottest new pre-mixed cocktail brands in America.
Following the July 4 holiday weekend, the Brew Talks panel will discuss summer selling season trends, examine the growth of beyond beer offerings such as hard seltzers and ready-to-drink canned cocktails, zero in on the style trends that are working, and peer ahead to fall resets.
Saucey, the e-commerce on-demand delivery service available in 400 cities across the U.S., saw its business grow 300% last year as consumers shifted their purchasing away from the on-premise channel to off-premise retailers and e-commerce services.
Boulder, Colorado-based POS software provider Arryved has announced a $20 million funding round, which the company plans to invest in brand marketing and expansion.
U.S. brewers shipped an estimated 15 million barrels of beer in May 2021, an +8.9% increase (more than 1.2 million barrels) compared to May 2020, according to the Beer Institute (BI), citing unofficial estimates of domestic tax paid shipments from the Alcohol and Tobacco Tax and Trade Bureau (TTB).
