To work around global travel restrictions and help its customers earn revenue during the COVID-19 crisis, Cask Global Canning Solutions has just completed its first “virtual” canning system installations. To make these five installations happen, Cask hustled together a new team of three installers who delivered phone and video-chat help, and five more Cask staffers…
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With the goal to help beer lovers support independent craft breweries, Beer Finder was created to be the ultimate online directory to satisfy a thirst for Ontario craft beer. COVID-19 has brought significant challenges to the beer industry with the sudden, and unexpected closures of tap rooms, restaurants, and bars, but many breweries have quickly…
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Kyle Kohlmorgen had a brewery, lost a brewery, and is now brewing again – as the founder, not the owner. Brewing Industry Guide takes a look at Kohlmorgen’s St Louis brewery Wellspent in an interesting feature that gives some excellent advice for those thinking of starting their own brewery. In the exceptional position of having…
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Are you one of the courageous people working tirelessly on the front lines in the battle against COVID-19? If so, there is good news – Shawn & Ed Brewing Co wants to buy you a beer. According to www.inthehammer.com Shawn & Ed Brewing Co. of Dundas, Ontario is looking for nominations of local front-line workers who are…
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What to do when the world is falling apart due to a virus? Just add vitamin C to your hard seltzer. That’s what Molson Coors is doing with their new hard seltzer Vizzy. The drink was launched in December, now it has an antioxidant added. The question is, would this work in your craft beer…
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Ninety-three-year-old Olive Veronesi won over the web last week when a photo of her holding a Coors Light and a sign that read “I NEED MORE BEER!!” went viral, reports Alex Parker for Molson Coors. And, it resulted in her getting much more beer. On Monday, Veronesi’s dry-erase board had a new message: “GOT MORE BEER!” After a family…
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While you might be thinking the coronavirus is hitting hard the beer industry, the virus is strictly chump-change when compared to US Prohibition which lasted for 13 long, long years. A brewery could only churn out so many bottles of alcohol free beer – called near-beer in the States. Pabst had ‘Pablo’, Miller’s ‘Vivo’, and…
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Like its counterparts in the United States, Molson Coors Beverage Co.’s craft breweries in Canada are galvanizing behind efforts to help workers displaced and small businesses hobbled by the COVID-19 pandemic, writes Peter Frost for Molson Coors. They’re requisitioning their delivery trucks to help deliver groceries. They’re supporting the hospitality industry with donations and through…
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If history is our teacher, the Spanish Flu and the Roaring Twenties can tell us what could come after Covid-19. In an extremely interesting article in VinePair, written by Tim McKirdy and illustrated by Amanda Lanzone, the question being raised could the world be ripe for another cultural renaissance after the corona virus departs? “It…
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A pub landlord in England is delivering free pints for anyone who stays indoors, reports the Metro. The Watermead Inn’s Kelvin Wong said the pub’s team decided to thank locals for their support ‘over the last nine years’ by bringing them a drink at home. Anyone wishing to receive a free cold beer just needs…
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