Start Your Engines: Racing Towards CBC 2025 in Indianapolis, Indiana
Date / Time: Friday, May 29th, 2020 at 12:00 am PDT (add to calendar) Event type: Event held online Price: Free Register / View: Brewbound: Braxton Brewing’s Co-Founder on the Kentucky Craft Brewery’s Big 2019 & Fast Pivots Amid a Pandemic
The neon lights of Vegas and the 2024 Craft Brewers Conference are in the rearview mirror and brewers and industry professionals will soon set their sights on Indianapolis, home of next year’s conference.
“We are planning, and the events team will be heading out there for a site visit in July,” said Ann Obenchain, the Brewers Association Vice President of Marketing and Communications, just prior to the Las Vegas conference. (more...)
“There’s no doubt that COVID is having a massive effect on where the business is headed and frankly what we’re doing now,” co-founder and CEO Jake Rouse told Brewbound. “Overall, sales are down roughly 68%. We’re fortunate enough that we can still sell product, but I joke a lot internally that if this would have happened just four weeks after, and all of the store resets would have happened in the spring, it would have been a really different story for us. But timing is everything in life.”
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