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For Massachusetts breweries, Gov. Charlie Baker’s reopening timeline won’t help much Updated Mar 02, 2021; By Jessica Bartlett | Boston Business Journal Businesses throughout the state may be able to bring in more customers as of Monday, and later this month up to 100 people may be allowed at private events, but for local breweries and taprooms, profits will continue to be hard to come by. Massachusetts brewery owners say the latest slackening of economic restrictions is incremental at best, and the rules that remain in place put so much pressure on profitability, some aren’t planning...

The 2020 class of Rising Stars — six emerging breweries to watch in the coming years — includes: Athletic Brewing, Stratford, Connecticut Green Bench Brewing, St. Petersburg, Florida Jack’s Abby Craft Lagers, Framingham, Massachusetts Other Half Brewing, Brooklyn, New York Urban Roots Brewery & Smokehouse, Sacramento, California. The Brewbound team will interview leaders from the 2020 class of Rising Stars as part of the awards show about the business pivots they made last year and their leadership strategies. Tune in to hear from: Athletic founders Bill Shufelt and John Walker; Bow & A...

For craft beer brewers struggling through the hardest season in their history, the law Baker signed on Tuesday couldn’t have come too soon.

For 50 years in Massachusetts, craft breweries have lacked the power to easily jump from one wholesaler to the next because of a law, written when their industry did not exist, binding them to lifetime contracts. Distributors have held sway, empowered to a level where they can buy and sell craft beer brands without say from the brewers. No longer. At 3:26 a.m. Jan. 6, hours before the end of the 2020 legislative session, the House passed a bill that allows brewers producing fewer than 250,000 barrels a year — 99% of the breweries in the state — to end their relationship with a distributor...

Craft breweries score a long-awaited victory at the State House Legislators agreed to a compromise that would help brewers expand By Jon Chesto Globe Staff,Updated January 8, 2021, 11:49 a.m. Email to a Friend Finally, a compromise has been reached between brewers and distributors in Massachusetts.JackÕs Abby Craft Lagers Craft brewers in Massachusetts can pour a cold one now and celebrate the last-minute approval of compromise legislation on Beacon Hill to help them break free of relationships with their distributors that may be hindering their growth. The measure, enacted in the early mo...