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Craft Brew News – 12/14/18
Itunes – Ranked # 12 in Food Category and #1 Craft Beer Podcast recently – THANK YOU!
Interviewed John Kimmich – Co-Founder of Alchemist – Stowe, VT
•Famous Heady Topper, an unfiltered double India pale ale (IPA) with an 8 percent ABV
•Men's Journal calls Heady Topper, “America's most coveted beer.”
•RateBeer.com names it one of the 100 best beers in the world.
•It regularly tops the charts at BeerAdvocate.com
Trying to get Sam Calagione Founder of DogfishHead and Jim Koch Founder of Boston Beer Co. on – connect us!
Drizly Lands $34.5 Million in Series C Funding
Drizly, a Boston-based on-demand alcohol delivery company, has secured another $34.5 million as part of a Series C fundraising round, according to a December 10 SEC filing.
Founded in 2012, Drizly has now raised about $70 million across multiple fundraising rounds from a variety of investors. Early-round investors also included First Beverage, Suffolk Equity, Gary Vaynerchuk (via the Vayner RSE fund – Wine Library) and the Wine & Spirits Wholesalers of America.
Six-year-old Drizly, which processed over 1 million transactions in 2017, currently bills itself as “the world’s largest alcohol marketplace.” Its mobile application enables consumers to shop for beer, wine and spirits and compare prices.
Drizly, which operates in more than 100 North American markets and recently expanded into Vancouver, Canada, has forged partnerships with more than 1,000 retailers. The company is aiming to add another 2,000 retail stores in 2019, according to source with knowledge of the company’s growth strategies.
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•Minnesota
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•North Carolina
•Ohio
•Oregon
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•Interstate Shipping Available In (8):
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DME Receivership Leaves Hundreds of Craft Brewers in Limbo
Nearly 26 months after the merger of Canadian brewing equipment manufacturers Diversified Metal Engineering (DME) and Newlands Systems, the combined company has fallen into receivership after defaulting on loan payments to the Royal Bank of Canada (RBC).
DME Group’s financial troubles have left hundreds of of North American craft brewery owners who had already shelled out millions of dollars in equipment deposits in limbo.
DME’s list of unsecured brewery creditors features a host of well-known producers, including 10 Barrel Brewing, Anchorage Brewing, Diageo, Foam Brewers, Labatt, Lord Hobo, Maine Beer Company, Monday Night Brewing, Moosehead Breweries, New Belgium Brewing, Night Shift Brewing, Notch Brewing, Tired Hands Brewing, and Wicked Weed, among many others.
DME’s financial woes follow issues for several other brewing equipment manufacturers, including the closure of Portland, Oregon-based Metal Craft in 2017 and Canton, Ohio-based SysTech Stainless Works earlier this year.
Thad Fisco, owner of Portland Kettle Works, likened the closings to small brewers stuck in the “hinterland between being regional and being local.”
“Same exact thing is happening in the manufacturing business,” he said. “Too much debt, the debt gets ahead of you, you can’t make the payments and the banks come in and foreclose.”
Still, the closure of a large manufacturer such as DME is an opportunity for companies such as Portland Kettle Works, Fisco said.
Anheuser-Busch Lays Off Dozens of Brewery Workers
Anheuser-Busch InBev has eliminated nearly 40 jobs across North America, Brewbound has learned.
In a statement issued...
Itunes – Ranked # 12 in Food Category and #1 Craft Beer Podcast recently – THANK YOU!
Interviewed John Kimmich – Co-Founder of Alchemist – Stowe, VT
•Famous Heady Topper, an unfiltered double India pale ale (IPA) with an 8 percent ABV
•Men's Journal calls Heady Topper, “America's most coveted beer.”
•RateBeer.com names it one of the 100 best beers in the world.
•It regularly tops the charts at BeerAdvocate.com
Trying to get Sam Calagione Founder of DogfishHead and Jim Koch Founder of Boston Beer Co. on – connect us!
Drizly Lands $34.5 Million in Series C Funding
Drizly, a Boston-based on-demand alcohol delivery company, has secured another $34.5 million as part of a Series C fundraising round, according to a December 10 SEC filing.
Founded in 2012, Drizly has now raised about $70 million across multiple fundraising rounds from a variety of investors. Early-round investors also included First Beverage, Suffolk Equity, Gary Vaynerchuk (via the Vayner RSE fund – Wine Library) and the Wine & Spirits Wholesalers of America.
Six-year-old Drizly, which processed over 1 million transactions in 2017, currently bills itself as “the world’s largest alcohol marketplace.” Its mobile application enables consumers to shop for beer, wine and spirits and compare prices.
Drizly, which operates in more than 100 North American markets and recently expanded into Vancouver, Canada, has forged partnerships with more than 1,000 retailers. The company is aiming to add another 2,000 retail stores in 2019, according to source with knowledge of the company’s growth strategies.
•Intrastate Shipping Available In (16):
•California
•Colorado
•Connecticut
•D.C.
•Florida
•Illinois
•Louisiana
•Massachusetts
•Minnesota
•Missouri
•New Jersey
•New York
•North Carolina
•Ohio
•Oregon
•Washington
•Interstate Shipping Available In (8):
•Virginia
•West Virginia
•Idaho
•North Dakota
•Nebraska
•New Mexico
•Nevada
•Oregon
DME Receivership Leaves Hundreds of Craft Brewers in Limbo
Nearly 26 months after the merger of Canadian brewing equipment manufacturers Diversified Metal Engineering (DME) and Newlands Systems, the combined company has fallen into receivership after defaulting on loan payments to the Royal Bank of Canada (RBC).
DME Group’s financial troubles have left hundreds of of North American craft brewery owners who had already shelled out millions of dollars in equipment deposits in limbo.
DME’s list of unsecured brewery creditors features a host of well-known producers, including 10 Barrel Brewing, Anchorage Brewing, Diageo, Foam Brewers, Labatt, Lord Hobo, Maine Beer Company, Monday Night Brewing, Moosehead Breweries, New Belgium Brewing, Night Shift Brewing, Notch Brewing, Tired Hands Brewing, and Wicked Weed, among many others.
DME’s financial woes follow issues for several other brewing equipment manufacturers, including the closure of Portland, Oregon-based Metal Craft in 2017 and Canton, Ohio-based SysTech Stainless Works earlier this year.
Thad Fisco, owner of Portland Kettle Works, likened the closings to small brewers stuck in the “hinterland between being regional and being local.”
“Same exact thing is happening in the manufacturing business,” he said. “Too much debt, the debt gets ahead of you, you can’t make the payments and the banks come in and foreclose.”
Still, the closure of a large manufacturer such as DME is an opportunity for companies such as Portland Kettle Works, Fisco said.
Anheuser-Busch Lays Off Dozens of Brewery Workers
Anheuser-Busch InBev has eliminated nearly 40 jobs across North America, Brewbound has learned.
In a statement issued...
