Category: Business of Beer
Industry news related to the brewing industry and the business of beer
News New Horizons – Outer Range Brewing Set to Open New Location in French Alps
Feeling like the craft beer market is getting saturated here in the U.S? In what may be a new wave of out-of-the box expansions, Outer Range Brewing, of Frisco, Colorado has announced that they are opening a second location in the in the French Alp town of town of Sallanches, France
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News Will the Low and Non-Alcohol Beverage Trend Continue to Grow?
There has been plenty of ‘buzz’ lately about the low and non-alcohol beer category gaining in popularity among consumes of all age groups. Not only have the global brewers added new products to the category, but even craft brewers such as Brooklyn Brewery have jumped in with their Special Effects alcohol-free beer.
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News Green Flash Brewing Company’s San Diego Brewery Up For Sale
Loeb Equipment, in partnership with Heritage Global Partners and Blackbird Asset Services has announced that it will be conducting a sale of the Green Flash Brewing Company’s San Diego brewing facility, capable of 100,000 barrel production.
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News Monster Jumps into Alcohol Biz – Buys CANarchy
In another big move in the consolidating beverage industry, Monster Beverage Corporation, maker of Monster Energy drink announced today the acquisition of CANarchy Brewery Collective. CANarchy includes Denver’s Oskar Blues, Cigar City Brewing Co. in Florida, Dallas’ Deep Ellum Brewing Co., Perrin Brewing Co. in Michigan and Utah’s Squatters and Wasatch breweries
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News Russian River Postpones Pliny the Younger Release
The surge in omicron has many industry events reevaluating plans to cancel, postpone or go forward with events that are planned for the coming weeks and months. One well-known event, Russian River Brewing’s Pliny the Younger release has been postponed until late March. The annual event draws beer consumers from around the country who travel to the Santa Rosa, California brewery for a long wait in line to buy the popular double IPA.
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News Constellation Finds New Location to Build Brewery After Water Dispute Shuts Down Mexicali Location
Constellation Brands said this week it will now build a new brewery in Veracruz, Mexico after a dispute over water access prompted it to halt construction last year of its largely completed brewery in the arid, northern border city of Mexicali.
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News ABInBev Ends Foray into At-Home Cocktails with Closure of Drinkworks
The Drinks Business has reported that the joint project between Keurig Dr Pepper Inc. and Anheuser-Busch InBev, will stop selling its countertop at-home cocktail-making machines, and will refund customers who have already bought the appliance, the company said in a statement in December.
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News Another Casualty in ‘Big Beer Buys Craft Beer’ – Molson Coors to Shut Saint Archer
Molson Coors today announced that it will cease operations of the Saint Archer brewery and remove Saint Archer brands from the retail marketplace. The company plans to sell its San Diego brewery and taproom to Kings & Convicts Brewing Company.
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News Modern Times Names Jennifer Briggs as CEO
San Diego’s Modern Times Beer has named Jennifer Briggs as its new chief executive after the company’s former CEO Jacob McKean stepped down in May amid #MeToo-like social media posts about toxic work environments for women in the craft beer industry.
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News BA Sets Up Fundraiser for Adam Dulye Who Lost Home in Marshall Fire
On December 30, 2021, Brewers Association Executive Chef Adam Dulye, and his two dogs narrowly escaped the town of Superior before the flames from Colorado’s most destructive wildfire in history engulfed their house and destroyed more than 1,000 homes and structures in 24 hours.
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News Spirits Industry Goes After Beer Market Share in Effort to Lower Taxes on Canned Cocktails
The spirit’s industry has mounted an organized lobbying and marketing campaign to take market share from beer by expanding distribution rights and lowering taxes on canned cocktails, according to an article in the Washington Post.
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News SweetWater to Buy San Diego’s Green Flash Brewing
According to a story in San Diego Beer News, Atlanta-based SweetWater Brewery is in the process of buying the brand portfolio of the Green Flash Brewing of San Diego. The acquisition includes the Alpine Brewing brands, which Green Flash acquired in 2014.
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News Non-Alcohol Beer Continues to Grow but Not Easy to Make
Posted by Tom McCormick
Athletic Brewing Co., makers of exclusively non-alcoholic beer, were only two years old when they burst onto the brewing world stage by growing sales 500% in 2020 during the first year of the pandemic and adding a second manufacturing location with the purchase of the Ballast Point Brewing Company in San Diego. They are now distributed in 35 states and have just expanded the capacity of their San Diego facility from 50,000 to 200,000 bbls.
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