If you read the end of the year reports for any major beer producer, the song remains the same: 2009 was a challenging and complicated year in the beer industry, stemming from a depressed economic environment, tightening credit markets, and continuing cost pressures. Overall, beer sales in the United States were down 2.2 percent, a [...]
With news that agents of the Pennsylvania State Police have visited/raided a local Philly distributor, Origlio (named 2009 Craft Beer Distributor of the Year by the Brewers Association, by the way), I finally looked at the governing laws for this growing fiasco. For starters, if you are a distributor or a brewer who works in [...]
I don’t usually do much linking here, but my buddy Harry Schuhmacher over at the painfully expensive but excellent Beer Business Daily has put up a public post briefly pontificating on the amount of money it will take craft brewers to build the capacity necessary to achieve certain goals they have discussed in the past. [...]
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