Beer Buzz – US Beer Giant Buys Major UK Cider Brand, Family Business Beer Company Launches!

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The beer biz never sleeps at American Craft Beer. And here’s some more of what’s been happening in the beer world, while you were drinking your way through the weekend.

Molson Coors Acquires Top-Selling UK Cider Producer (Denver, CO) – We don’t normally track the cider industry that closely at ACB. But when the seventh largest brewing company in the world (Molson Coors) purchases Aspall, the United Kingdom’s top-selling premium cider producer, that’s big news by any standard in the drink’s biz!

Founded in Suffolk in 1728, Aspall (which grew 10% in 2016) is renowned for their ciders in England, the biggest market in the world for the drink, accounting for 45% of its sales. They also produce a top line of apple vinegars which Molson Coors also hopes to build upon.

Molson Coors, home to be beer brands like Carling and Miller, said it would invest in the Suffolk site, where Aspall  has carved out a growing presence in the premium cider market (they call them cyders), which Denver –based beer giant intends to expand both in England as well as abroad.

Financial terms of the Molson Coors/Aspall deal have not been disclosed, but industry-watchers put the value of the almost 300 year-old cider manufacturer at around £40m including debt. Molson Coors also owns five breweries in the UK  (Trent, Tadcaster, Burtonwood, Cornwall and Sharp’s brewery), and the Franciscan Well brewery in Cork, Ireland.

 

Words To Drink By (Redding CT) – “If you tell the truth, you don’t have to remember anything.” Mark Twain, American writer

 

beer, Beer Buzz – US Beer Giant Buys Major UK Cider Brand, Family Business Beer Company Launches!A Supernatural Family Business Beer Company (Dripping, Springs, TX) – Jensen Ackles is the co-star of WB’s popular television series Supernatural, that’s now in its 11th season making it the longest-running American live-action fantasy series in television history. And after that kind of run, the man needed a beer.

So the Supernatural actor, (who makes his home in Austin when he’s not hunting down demons, ghosts, and monsters) has decided to branch out a little.  And along with his family, Ackles is launching the latest addition to Austin’s vibrant craft beer scene Family Business Brewing Co., which officially opens this Wednesday (1/1) in Dripping Springs, Texas…So plan to drop by and have a beer with the family this week…We here the beer’s worth the drive.

Beer In Japan To Get More Expensive In 2018 (Tokyo) – According to Japan’s national public broadcasting organization NHK,  the country’s four leading beer brewers – Asahi, Kirin, Suntory and Sapporo – will raise beer prices in bottles and kegs in February. Citing higher distribution costs and a labor shortages, coupled with rising raw materials (rice and wheat), the wholesale prices of bottled beer are expected to rise by about 10% next month.

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