While Heineken’s recent 100% buyout of London’s Beavertown Brewery has brought despair from many quarters of the craft brewing scene, many commentators regarded it as inevitable. The Guardian’s Rob Davies said that, with Heineken owning a 49% stake since 2018, it “was always going to happen”, while beer writer Melissa Cole described it as “no big surprise”. Clearly they weren’t
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Small breweries have set up in almost every town in the US but getting bigger is not easySupported by Like most of the country’s nearly 9,000 breweries, the Wichita Brewing company would like more Americans to drink its beer. That’s been an unexpectedly difficult hurdle for the Kansas company. While craft beer drinkers in Kansas, Oklahoma, Missouri and Wyoming can
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The pandemic continues to cause all kinds of chaos for the beer industry, affecting everything from keg sales to shipping and receiving, but a few signs point to the economy moving toward normalization. Bobby Dykstra, director of national accounts for Boulevard Brewing Co. and vice president of sales for parent company Duvel Moortgat USA, just got the latest numbers on
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