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Hawaii’s largest craft brewery, Maui Brewing, has transitioned production of some of its products to Denver, Colorado, following multiple supply chain constraints.

Frank the Tank, Mortimer Lovejoy Jr., Brock Lee and Bumpy Knuckles. These are just a few of the more than 65 characters from a universe created by Portland, Oregon’s Great Notion Brewing.

Albert Hammond Jr. — lead guitarist for The Strokes — launched Jetway, an ultra-premium wine seltzer, this month.

A Pennsylvania bill that would require beer sold at in-state taprooms that are owned by out-of-state companies to either be brewed onsite or sold through a Pennsylvania wholesaler is one step closer to becoming law.

Retail sales of Boston Beer Company’s Truly Hard Seltzer continued to increase in Q3, to an estimated +51% year-over-year, according to a recent “Beverage Bytes” retailer survey by Goldman Sachs analyst Bonnie Herzog.

The Reyes Beer Division will acquire “substantially all the assets” of Powers Distributing in Lake Orion, Michigan, the company announced today. The Powers deal will add about 5.7 million cases to Reyes’ business.

Westbrook, Maine-based Mast Landing Brewing will transition from Night Shift Distributing (NSD) to Homegrown Distribution (HGD) for its Massachusetts distribution, effective October 16.

As craft-focused wholesaler Night Shift Distributing (NSD) winds down operations in Massachusetts, non-alcoholic brewer Athletic Brewing will transition to the Sheehan Family Companies in the Bay State, effective October 18.

Neighbors of Tree House Brewing Company’s Cape Cod taproom and the company have reached an agreement about on-site operations, according to a report in the Cape Cod Times.

Reyes Beer Division CEO Tom Day challenged the notion that competition in California’s beer market has suffered due to his company’s expansion efforts in the Golden State, according to a letter from the leader of the United States’ largest beer wholesaler to the U.S. Department of the Treasury.

New National Beer Wholesalers Association (NBWA) chairman Peter Heimark laid out his vision for what beer (and beverage) wholesalers will be facing over the next year during his remarks at the NBWA’s annual conference Tuesday.

The nation’s beer wholesalers and beer industry executives will meet in Las Vegas this week for the National Beer Wholesalers Association’s (NBWA) annual convention, and the meeting’s arrival comes amid turbulence. Large wholesalers continue to consolidate within the middle tier, while at least one New England craft-focused wholesaler has thrown in the towel. The pace of consolidation chugs on even as President Joe Biden has tasked the Treasury with examining competition within the beer industry at large, and that’s led to comments from at least two trade groups calling into question these mergers’ effect on the competitive landscape.

Jack’s Abby Craft Lagers must continue to sell its products to Atlantic Importing and Distributing of Rhode Island as the lawsuit between the two moves to trial, a Rhode Island Superior Court judge ruled Thursday.