Category: Business of Beer
Industry news related to the brewing industry and the business of beer
News Done Deal – CBMTRA Tax Reduction Become Permanent
After days of drama on Capitol Hill, the year-end legislative package that includes the Craft Beverage Modernization and Tax Reform Act (CBMTRA) was signed into law making the existing federal excise tax rates for small and independent breweries permanent.
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News On-Premise Shows Slight Decline Due to Latest Virus Surge
According to Nielsen CGA’s latest Impact Report, 50% of consumers have gone out to the on-premise to eat in the past 2 weeks, slightly down from 54% in the November survey. The report attributes the decline to tighter restrictions across a number of states.
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News Adherence to COVID-19 Protocol Drives Brewery To-Go Sales
In a survey conducted by Craft Brewing Business, craft beer consumers purchasing beer to-go from local breweries listed “adherence to COVID-19 protocols such as cleaning, sanitation and social distancing” as a key factor in determining which brewery they buy from.
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News Global Alcohol Expected to Decline by 8% in 2020
According to IWSR Drinks Market Analysis, alcohol beverage will be down by 8% versus 2019 across 19 global markets due to the worldwide pandemic. The U.S. and Canada are bright spots with each expected to show volume growth this year of over 2% total.
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News Oregon Governor Pulls Alcohol Tax Proposal
Over the summer, the Oregon Health Authority had proposed a tax increase on beer, wine and cider to help close a $718 budget gap. The proposal has since been pulled from the budget proposal by Oregon governor Kate Brown. The proposed alcohol tax would have been the first in the state in about 40 years.
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News Sacred Heart and New England Brewing Create Scholarship for Black Students
Sacred Heart University and New England Brewing Co. have established a scholarship for Black students as a means to diversify the brewing industry. And, to ensure the scholarship support continues in perpetuity, the Connecticut Brewers Guild has initiated an endowed fund with SHU—the Connecticut Brewers Guild African American Brewing Scholarship.
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News Oregon Brewers Volume Down by 28%
It’s hard to get a good number on exactly where beer sales are in this pandemic year. But in “reporting states” such as Oregon, a clearer picture is coming into view. Sales volumes reported to the Oregon Liquor Control Commission by breweries are down about 28% from last year, and the number of breweries reporting has dropped by 25, a nearly 10% decline.
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News Today is ‘Day of Action’ in D.C. to Extend CBMTRA
The Brewers Association, state brewers guilds, and other beverage alcohol trade associations are joining together today for a national Day of Action to urge Congress to pass the Craft Beverage Modernization and Tax Reform Act (CBMTRA) and make the current federal excise tax rates permanent.
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News October Domestic Beer Shipments Up 0.6%
The Beer Institute released their monthly “unofficial estimate” of domestic tax paid shipments by beer brewers for October 2020 which shows a total production of 13,250,000 barrels, an increase of 0.6% compared to October 2019 removals of 13,168,000 barrels.
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News TTB Offers Educational Videos on Tied House Laws
As part of TTB’s effort to provide on-demand educational information, the federal agency is offering a new video series for the alcohol beverage industry that explains the history leading up to the trade practice rules, defines the related terms, and walks through the four prohibited trade practices.
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News Are Pubs ‘Safer’ Than Supermarkets in the UK?
An article in the Drinks Business says that data released by Public Health England (PHE) last week, based on information from the NHS Test and Trace app, supermarkets, not pubs, are the most common places visited in the days before a positive coronavirus test.
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News Chain Store Resets Could Be a Shocker
The last full-scale reset at most off-premise chain stores was all the way back in fall of last year. The pandemic threw a wrench in the “normal life” of grocery store beer sets, with retailers not doing a spring reset and instead placing on the shelf anything that was available and not out-of-stock.
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News BA Provides Tips on How to Save Energy (and Money) in the Brewery
Based on 5 years of benchmarking data collected, the Brewers Association has found that electricity is the greatest utility cost per barrel packaged, no matter the size of the brewery. Although the price of electricity can’t be controlled, there are many small, low cost best practices that you can control to use less electricity – and save money.
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News Growth of Cans in Mainstream Beer Sales May Worsen Shortage
While the explosive growth of hard seltzer and craft beer in cans has had a significant impact on the shortage of cans to the beverage business, small changes in trends for mainstream beer can have an even bigger impact, according to a report on the can shortage by First Key Consulting.
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News Michael James Jackson Foundation is Up and Running
The Michael James Jackson Foundation for Brewing and Distilling (MJF) has formalized its board of directors and held their first meeting this month to begin tackling their core mission “to advance technical education and facilitate career opportunities for people of color within these industries in the US.”
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