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USA | The cancellation of its 2020 events means the Brewers Association (BA) will lose 70 percent of its annual revenue. It has had to resort to staff lay-offs and Julia Herz is among the 24 already made redundant.
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USA | To get the green light from the antitrust watchdogs for its purchase of Portland’s Craft Brew Alliance (Widmer, Redhook, Kona, etc), AB-InBev said in June 2020 that it will sell off Kona’s Hawaii brewery and two brewpubs including the rights to the brand on the islands.
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USA | Because of the lockdown and the closure of bars, US domestic beer shipments in May 2020 declined 6.6 percent to 14.2 million barrels (16.6 million hl), from 15.2 million barrels a year ago, The Beer Institute reports.
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USA | Since the death of George Floyd, who was killed by a white police officer in Minneapolis, craft brewers have come together to launch a new beer in support of equality for people of colour.
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USA | Beer imports in April, the first full month of lockdown, were 3.2 million hl. That is 23 percent or 946,000 hl below the same month last year, the Beer Institute, a trade body, reported on 4 June 2020.
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USA | PicoBrew was considered the future of beer. But the world’s first automatic all-grain homebrewing appliance, which was as big as a microwave and could sit on a cupboard, is currently winding down.
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Mexico | Because of the covid-19 pandemic, the Mexican government has extended brewery closures from the original date 1 May to 1 June 2020. This applies to all “non-essential” industries. Brewing and beer distribution are not considered essential.
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USA | As consumers have hunkered down in their homes, reduced their shopping trips and stocked up on large packs of 12-ounce cans of trusted beer brands, demand for cans has shot through the roof.
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USA | If only Molson Coors had heeded the old adage: A lawsuit is a machine which you go into as a pig and come out of as a sausage. Because on 1 May 2020 a federal appeals court struck down a ruling by a lower court, which had been in its favour.
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Canada | The hype over Cannabis beverages seems to have fizzled. Brewers AB-InBev, Molson Coors and Constellation Brands had big plans to sell THC- or CBD-infused beverages by the end of last year. But only two have hit shelves yet.
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