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Miami Herald
08-05-2025
- Business
- Miami Herald
Popular vodka and gin brand files for Chapter 11 bankruptcy
Business Popular vodka and gin brand files for Chapter 11 bankruptcy The spirits distilling industry has faced economic challenges that have led to business closings and, in some cases, bankruptcy filings this year. Spirits supplier sales in the U.S. declined 1.1% in 2024 to $37.2 billion, the Distilled Spirits Council of the United States reported in its Annual Economic Briefing in February 2025. Slower sales led to financial issues and sometimes bankruptcy for companies. Don't miss the move: Subscribe to TheStreet's free daily newsletter Financial problems forced a major global distillery affiliate to file for bankruptcy late last year, as Stoli USA, a subsidiary of vodka giant Stoli Group, filed for Chapter 11 protection on Nov. 27, 2024, after financial distress led to a default on $78 million in secured debt owed to Fifth Third Bank NA. Related: Popular whiskey brand files Chapter 11 bankruptcy Following Stoli's bankruptcy, slower sales carried over into 2025 and resulted in several smaller U.S. spirits distillers marching into bankruptcy court to file for Chapter 11. Craft spirits producer Boston Harbor Distillery, which makes whiskey, rum, gin, liqueurs, and distilled beer, on March 31, 2025, filed for Chapter 11 bankruptcy protection, seeking to reorganize its business. Samuel Adams brewer Boston Beer Company's co-founder Rhonda Kallman, a leader in the craft beverage industry, established the Dorchester, Mass.-based distiller in 2012. More whiskey distillers file for bankruptcy The maker of Westward Whiskey, House Spirits Distillery LLC, filed for Chapter 11 bankruptcy, suffering from financial distress after over-expanding just before the liquor market contracted. House Spirits filed its Subchapter V petition in the U.S. Bankruptcy Court for the District of Delaware on April 6, 2025, listing $1 million to $10 million in assets and debts. Devils River Distillery LLC and an affiliate filed for Chapter 11 bankruptcy protection on May 1 to reorganize their business and continue operating. The San Antonio-based distiller of Devil's River Whiskey, which opened for business in 2017, makes five different bourbon whiskeys and a rye whiskey. The company distributes its liquor to 36 states, five countries, and cruise lines, offering premium and craft bourbons. Image source:JJ Pfister Distilling files bankruptcy after closing down Finally, Sacramento-based spirits manufacturer JJ Pfister Distilling Co. has filed for Chapter 11 bankruptcy protection to reorganize about $1.6 million in debts six months after closing its business operations. Related: Popular liquor brand files for Chapter 11 bankruptcy The organic craft spirits distiller filed its petition in the U.S. Bankruptcy Court for the Eastern District of California, listing up to $50,000 in assets and $1 million to $10 million in debts. More bankruptcies: The debtor's largest creditors include Fite Bypass Trust, owed over $453,000; Bank of America, owed over $86,000; Overton Funding, owed over $76,000; and various tax authorities. The liquor distiller opened its business in April 2018 and manufactured several spirits, including vodka, gin, rum, rye whiskey, rye bourbon, drakas, apple brandy, and pear brandy. JJ Pfister's liquor was distributed in Arizona, California, and Nevada and sold at retailers, such as Total Wine, BevMo, Nugget Markets, Raley's stores, Young's Market, and Vin Sauvage stores. The company closed its distillery and tasting room in November 2024 and plans to market its assets for sale, the Sacramento Business Journal reported. Representatives of JJ Pfister could not be reached for comment as the distiller's phone number and website were not operational on May 7. Related: Another popular whiskey brand files for Chapter 11 bankruptcy The Arena Media Brands, LLC THESTREET is a registered trademark of TheStreet, Inc. This story was originally published May 7, 2025 at 7:48 PM.
Epoch Times
04-05-2025
- Politics
- Epoch Times
How the Capture of Fort Ticonderoga Ended the Siege of Boston
A grand dinner was coordinated for Aug. 14, 1769, in Dorchester, a suburb of Boston, to commemorate the fourth anniversary of the Stamp Act Riots. The dinner, held under a massive tent near the 'Liberty-Tree-Tavern' (Robinson's Tavern), hosted 300 Sons of Liberty. The cause of liberty, as well as the sound of music and cannon shots, filled the air. The Sons of Liberty made 45 toasts that early evening (this after 14 toasts earlier in the day), celebrating 'All true Patriots throughout the World' and cheering the 'Speedy Removal of all Task Masters.' In spite of so many toasts, John Adams, a member of the Sons of Liberty and an attendee of the dinner, A Host of Tea Parties Angry American colonists dressed up as Mohawk Indians while they destroyed hundreds of pounds of British tea, in an event known as the Boston Tea Party. Public Domain Four years later in December 1773 and seven months after the British Parliament passed another act that infuriated the American colonists, the Sons of Liberty eyed a different beverage: tea. The first of the five tea parties during that December took place in Charleston, South Carolina. The most famous, though, was the Boston Tea Party on Dec. 16. The last Tea Party took place a year later on Dec. 22, 1774, in Greenwich, New Jersey. During the course of the 17 Tea Parties, British Parliament and American colonists continued to butt heads. In retaliation of the Tea Parties, specifically the Boston Tea Party, Parliament passed the Coercive Acts (the colonists called them the Intolerable Acts) on March 31, 1774. The Intolerable Acts included the Boston Port Act, which established a blockade of the Boston Harbor; the Massachusetts Government Act, which allowed the king to appoint the Massachusetts Council; the Administration of Justice Act, which removed the colonists' freedom of trial by a jury of one's peers; and the Quartering Act, empowering military officials to demand better accommodations at the expense of colonists. Additionally, the Quebec Act was passed, which extended the province of Quebec to the Ohio River, allowed the free exercise of Catholicism, and permitted French civil law. The First Continental Congress The legislative acts only inflamed the revolutionary fervor. In response, a congress was convened. Twelve of the 13 colonies (sans Georgia) sent 56 delegates to Philadelphia. Among the delegates from Massachusetts was John Adams, along with his firebrand cousin, Samuel Adams. The First Continental Congress began on Sept. 5, 1774, with delegates discussing and debating how to resolve the issues of taxation without representation, standing armies, the stranglehold on Boston, and the Canada problem. By Oct. 20, the delegates established its Related Stories 10/8/2024 3/30/2023 The First Continental Congress, 1848, by Henry Samuel Sadd. Public Domain On the final day of the congress, the delegates issued a petition to King George III that addressed their grievances, while being certain not to assign blame to the Crown. The delegates did Shortly after the delegates met in Philadelphia and well before Franklin presented the petition, King George III believed the crisis with the American colonies had already reached a point of no return. He Many in the colonies felt the same way, including the colonial governor of Massachusetts, Gen. Thomas Gage. He On Oct. 7, 1774, in The members of the First Continental Congress agreed to reassemble the following year, but by that time, war would have already broken out between the colonists and Great Britain, and the minutemen of Massachusetts would play the most significant role. Minutemen, Ethan Allen, and Benedict Arnold During the late night and early morning hours of April 18 and 19, 1775, three members of the Sons of Liberty would make one of the most significant contributions to the revolutionary cause. Paul Revere, William Dawes, and Dr. Samuel Prescott rode through the night alarming local villages and towns the British were coming. The 'Midnight Rides' of these three patriots enabled the militias around Boston to take up arms. On April 19 at 5 a.m. and 8 a.m., respectively, the opening battles of the Revolutionary War began at Lexington and Concord. When about 400 Minutemen faced approximately 220 British soldiers at the North Bridge in Concord, a return volley by the militia, which left three British soldiers dead and nine wounded, became known as the 'shot heard round the world.' The British began a long and bloody retreat back to Boston where they endured constant and heavy fire from local militia members. The British finally arrived in Boston, protected by the guns of the Royal Navy, but 73 had been killed and many more wounded. Thus began the 11-month Siege of Boston, where thousands of militia surrounded the city. Shortly after the battles of Lexington and Concord and the start of the siege, Ethan Allen and his Green Mountain Boys, from what is now Vermont, were commissioned by New England colonial leaders to capture Fort Ticonderoga. The fort held a strategic position between Albany and Montreal on Lake Champlain. With a garrison of only 50 British soldiers, it seemed ripe for the taking. Allen, along with his brothers Levi and Ira, and cousins Ebenezer Allen, Seth Warner, and Remember Baker, began their march to Fort Ticonderoga. At about this same time, Col. Benedict Arnold, a member of the Sons of Liberty, presented his idea to take Fort Ticonderoga to the Massachusetts Provincial Congress's Committee of Safety. The committee commissioned Arnold to lead the capture of the strategic fort. Taking the Ticonderoga and Crown Point When Allen and Arnold finally met, the latter claimed his official orders gave him the right to lead the expedition. The Green Mountain Boys, however, were adamant they would follow orders from no one but Allen. Arnold and Allen compromised on a dual command with Arnold leading his Massachusetts and Connecticut militia members and Allen leading his men. The combined force accounted for approximately 250 soldiers—more than enough to take the fort. But on the morning of the attack, a lack of boats enabled them to only take a fraction. It was during this week in history, during the early morning hours of May 10, 1775, and with only two scow boats capable of carrying about 40 men each, that Allen and Arnold piled 83 men on the boats and sailed across Lake Champlain. Arriving about half a mile from the fort, the attacking force captured Fort Ticonderoga with only a single shot being fired by a British sentry, which missed high. An 1875 engraving depicting the capture of Fort Ticonderoga by Ethan Allen on May 10, 1775. Public Domain When British Lt. Jocelyn Feltham demanded to know by whose authority were they conducting this attack, Allen is said to have leveled his sword at Feltham's throat and Two days later on May 12, Warner, Allen's cousin, led the Green Mountain Boys who were not involved in the capture of Fort Ticonderoga on an attack to capture the nearby Crown Point fortification. The capture of these two locations was immensely important, not so much because of their strategic locations, but because of the large cache of artillery. The militia surrounding Boston were in great need of gunpowder and artillery, and the actions of the Allen and Arnold-led force would prove absolutely necessary. Washington and the Knox Expedition On the same day as the capture of Fort Ticonderoga, the delegates from the colonies reassembled in Philadelphia to begin the Second Continental Congress. A month later, on June 14, Congress established the Continental Army (three days before the costly British victory at Bunker Hill). John Adams nominated George Washington to lead the force. Washington took command on July 3 after arriving in Cambridge. As the months wore on in Boston, Washington was addressed by the young, newly commissioned colonel, Henry Knox, who had been a witness to the Boston Massacre and, as a member of the Sons of Liberty, was on guard duty during the Boston Tea Party. Knox suggested using the captured artillery from Fort Ticonderoga and Crown Point against the British Army and Navy. Washington agreed and ordered Knox to lead the expedition. In 1776, Col. Henry Knox, Washington's chief of artillery brought guns and mortars from Fort Ticonderoga to Boston. Engraving by Van Ingen. MPI/Getty Images Knox and his men left Cambridge on Nov. 16 and arrived at Fort Ticonderoga on Dec. 5, gathered the 58 pieces of artillery, weighing at least 120,000 pounds, and covered 300 miles across the snow-covered Berkshire Mountains back to Boston. A number of guns were placed along the siege line at Roxbury, Cobble Hill, and Lechmere Point. A council of war was held on Feb. 16 with Washington calling for an attack on Boston. The council of officers rejected the idea, but the idea of 'drawing out the enemy' to a particular spot, as had been done at Bunker Hill was accepted. The spot would be at a familiar location: Dorchester Heights. The Guns of Dorchester Washington decided to utilize nighttime bombardments from the guns at Roxbury, Cobble Hill, and Lechmere Point, while soldiers, under the guidance of engineer Col. Richard Gridley, built up breastworks to eventually place upon Dorchester Heights. Three thousand soldiers worked to fortify the Heights, while thousands more prepared for an amphibious assault once the British made their move. Once completed, the prebuilt fortifications were scheduled to be maneuvered to the Heights on the night of March 4 and completed by early morning March 5—the anniversary of the Boston Massacre. The objective was completed with the use of more than 1,200 soldiers and volunteers, as well as 360 oxcarts. On the morning of March 5, a vast assortment of mortars and cannons loomed over the Boston Harbor pointing at the British Army and Navy. The commander of the British Army, Gen. William Howe, peered up at the guns and earthworks at Dorchester Heights and exclaimed, 'My God, these fellows have done more work in one night than I could make my army do in three months.' There would be no attack by the British on Dorchester Heights. The British evacuated Boston on March 17, thus ending the siege and claiming a momentous victory for the new Continental Army. Never miss a This Week in History story! Sign up for the American History newsletter What arts and culture topics would you like us to cover? Please email ideas or feedback to
Epoch Times
02-05-2025
- General
- Epoch Times
Centenarians for Liberty
Commentary On the morning of April 19, 1775, British troops marched into Lexington, Massachusetts, on their way to confiscate weapons in the nearby town of Concord and to apprehend the colonial firebrands Samuel Adams and John Hancock. When a shot was fired—no one knows by whom—a skirmish erupted. As the smoke cleared, eight American patriots were dead. The American Revolution had begun. It was 250 years ago today. Eighty-nine years later, as another war was nearing its end, only seven veterans of the Revolution were still alive. Ranging in age from 101 to 106, they had been teenagers when they took up arms against Britain. Suppose you had been alive in 1864 when those seven veterans still lived. Wouldn't it be a thrill to visit each of them, take a photo or two, and pry loose their memories of those momentous days so long before?! Reverend E. B. Hillard set out to meet all of the men in the summer of that last full year of the Civil War. He reached six of them at their homes in New York, Maine, and Ohio. The seventh, in Missouri, was beyond his reach. He interviewed five of the six (one was too ill to speak), took a photo of each man and his house, and then wrote a remarkable book titled 'The Last Men of the Revolution.' I recently bought a 2013 facsimile reproduction of it—bound in genuine goat leather, no less—but for a few bucks less you can get Hillard fully understood the historical significance of his project, as his Introduction reveals: Related Stories 4/17/2025 3/23/2025 'The present is the last generation that will be connected by living link with the great period in which our national independence was achieved. Our own are the last eyes that will look on men who looked on Washington; our ears the last that will hear the living voices of those who heard his words. Henceforth the American Revolution will be known among men by the silent record of history alone.' The first of the six Hillard met and profiled in the book was 102-year-old Samuel Downing of Edinburgh, New York. He was living in the house he built some 70 years before, and everybody for miles around knew exactly who he was. They regarded him with 'respect and affection.' Only the day before, the old man had walked five miles (round trip) to a shoemaker's shop to have his boots spiffed up. Of the six surviving veterans, Hillard says Downing was 'the most vigorous in body and mind.' The Reverend writes: 'Indeed, judging from his bearing and conversation, you would not take him to be over seventy years of age .... [H]e is strong, hearty, enthusiastic, cheery: the most sociable of men and the very best of company. He eats his full meal, rests well at night, labors upon the farm, hoes corn and potatoes, and works just as well as anybody. His voice is strong and clear, his mind unclouded, and he seems, as one of his neighbors said of him, 'as good for ten years longer as he ever was.'' Not bad in 1864 for someone born in 1761! Nelson Augustus Moore, Roswell A. Moore/Library of Congress, Public Domain Downing regaled Hillard with stories the Reverend found riveting. Downing's first duty in the war was 'to guard wagons from Exeter to Springfield.' He and fellow patriots once ambushed British carriages transporting rum and enjoyed a good party that night. The old man knew the infamous Benedict Arnold and served under him in the Mohawk Valley before Arnold turned traitor. 'A stern-looking man but kind to his soldiers,' said Downing, but 'he ought to have been true' to the American cause. From 'right opposite Washington's headquarters,' Downing watched Lafayette prepare the ground just before the pivotal Downing recalled, 'When peace was declared, we burnt thirteen candles in every hut, one for each State.' After their 'delightful' conversation, Hillard departed, his heart 'swelled afresh with gratitude to the men who had rescued their land from the tyrant.' Rev. Hillard's next stop was Syracuse, New York, to see a veteran named Daniel Waldo, just two months shy of his 102nd birthday. Sadly, because of a fall just days before, Waldo lay mostly unconscious on his deathbed. 'To see him, even without knowing him, was to love him,' wrote Hillard. Despite the situation, Hillard assembled a fascinating profile of Waldo from friends and family and the many articles written about the man when he was in better shape. Waldo had been a preacher who commanded immense adoration. Hillard quotes a close friend of Waldo's, who said, 'At the close of a life of more than a hundred years, there is no passage in his history which those who loved him would wish to have erased.' The stories revealed to Hillard by the remaining four—Lemuel Cook, Alexander Milliner, William Hutchings, and Adam Link—are all poignant and memorable. I couldn't help but wonder if God granted these men long lives so they could reveal to E. B. Hillard how blessed the country was to have them. I hope you'll want to pick up a copy of the book and read about them for yourself. I don't know about you, but I would give anything to spend even a moment with centenarians who fought for America's liberty. Thank you, Rev. E. B. Hillard, for doing that very thing so long ago. From the Views expressed in this article are opinions of the author and do not necessarily reflect the views of The Epoch Times.
Yahoo
29-04-2025
- Business
- Yahoo
Boston Beer Co. faces $20-30M in extra costs due to tariffs
This article first appeared in the Boston Business Journal. Boston Beer Co., the maker of Samuel Adams beer, Truly hard seltzer and other drinks, says the extra costs due to tariffs this year will be between $20 million and $30 million. The big driver of those costs is the aluminum Boston Beer Co. uses for its cans. 'In terms of tariffs, we're still identifying what is actual policy and what is posturing and what looks like a long negotiation,' said CEO Michael Spillane on an earnings call last week. 'So we're being very thoughtful and very focused internally on, if we need solutions, we have them ready. We're assessing the marketplace to see what kind of pricing tolerance there would be and we're constantly looking at findings internally.' The challenges with potential tariffs come on top of negative market trends in beer and other alcoholic beverages. Hard seltzer sales were down 5% for the first quarter of 2025, and beer sales were weaker than expected. Chairman Jim Koch called today's slow decline in beer consumption 'the new normal' amid consumers' health considerations and competing markets such as cannabis. Boston Beer Co. has adjusted to the market challenges in part by turning to drinks with higher alcohol content. That includes Twisted Tea Extreme, which was launched in 2023, and Truly Unruly, which came to the market last year. However, Angry Orchard continues to lead the hard cider segment, with 40% market share, according to the company. Spillane said he expects Truly Unruly 'to be a key contributor in improving the trajectory of the Truly brand.' He also touted the performance of vodka-based hard tea Sun Cruiser, which began its national distribution early this year. Baystate Health completes cuts with 43 layoffs There are no more Bertucci's restaurants in this region of Massachusetts Boston-area French restaurant closes Brookline location after 10 years Wahlburgers shutters its Lynnfield location after 10 years Boston built America's innovation engine. Now it's under attack by Trump Read the original article on MassLive.
Yahoo
17-04-2025
- Business
- Yahoo
Cheers! 4 Ohio craft breweries are among the top 50 in the nation. See the full list
Raise your glass to these four craft breweries in Ohio that rank alongside Yuengling and Sam Adams as some of the best in the nation. The Brewers Association, a trade group representing small and independent American craft breweries, released its annual craft brewing industry production report and its ranking of the top 50 craft brewing companies by sales volume this week. 'While distribution is only becoming more competitive, the top 50 list reflects some of the strongest, most emblematic companies in craft beer,' Matt Gacioch, the Brewers Association's staff economist, said in a release. 'Enduring brands continue to resonate with drinkers—regardless of size or location. And in Ohio, there are several big changes from last year's report. Here's what to know. Rhinegeist in Cincinnati jumped to No. 16 in the ranking of the top 50 craft brewing companies, up from No. 22 last year. The move put Rhinegeist ahead of Cleveland's Great Lakes Brewing as the top craft brewery in Ohio. Great Lakes ranks No. 18 this year, down from No. 17. Rounding out Ohio breweries on the list, BrewDog of Canal Winchester near Columbus advanced to No. 30, up from 36 last year. And, Fat Head's Brewery of Middleburg Heights, a suburb of Cleveland, joined the list this year at No. 48. Topping the craft brewery list were D. G. Yuengling and Son Inc. of Pottsville, Pennsylvania, makers of Yuengling beers, at No. 1 followed by the Boston Beer Co., makers of Samuel Adams beers. In the top 50 overall rankings, which includes big names like Anheuser-Busch (No. 1) and MolsonCoors (No. 2), Rhinegeist ranks No. 27, up from No. 32 last year. Great Lakes came in at No. 29, down two spots from last year. BrewDog jumped to No. 41, up from 46th. Fat Head's didn't rank overall. Here is the complete list of the top 50 craft brewing companies: D.G. Yuengling and Son Inc., Pottsville, Pennsylvania Boston Beer Co., Boston, Massachusetts Sierra Nevada Brewing Co., Chico, California Tilray Beer Brands, New York, New York Duvel Moortgat USA, Cooperstown, New York Gambrinus, Shiner, Texas Matt Brewing Co., Utica, New York Athletic Brewing Company, Milford, Connecticut Brooklyn Brewery, Brooklyn, New York Monster Brewing, Longmont, Colorado Deschutes Brewery, Bend, Oregon New Glarus Brewing Co., New Glarus, Wisconsin Barrel One Collective, Boston, Massachusetts Georgetown Brewing Co., Seattle, Washington Gordon Biersch Brewing Co., San Jose, California Rhinegeist Brewery, Cincinnati, Ohio Craft 'Ohana (Maui/Modern Times), Kihei, Hawaii Great Lakes Brewing Company, Cleveland, Ohio Narragansett Brewing Co., Pawtucket, Rhode Island Tröegs Brewing Co., Hershey, Pennsylvania Allagash Brewing Company, Portland, Maine August Schell Brewing Company, New Ulm, Minnesota Fiddlehead Brewing, Shelburne, Vermont Stevens Point Brewery, Stevens Point, Wisconsin Pittsburgh Brewing Co., Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania Three Floyds Brewing, Munster, Indiana Odell Brewing Co., Fort Collins, Colorado Great Frontier Holdings, Eugene, Oregon Abita Brewing Co., Covington, Louisiana BrewDog Brewing Co., Canal Winchester, Ohio Creature Comforts Brewing Co., Athens, Georgia Hendler Family Brewing Company, Framingham, Massachusetts Alaskan Brewing Co., Juneau, Alaska Summit Brewing Co., St. Paul, Minnesota Saint Arnold Brewing Co., Houston, Texas Revolution Brewing, Chicago, Illinois Kona Brewing Hawaii, Kailua-Kona, Hawaii Pizza Port, Carlsbad, California Surly Brewing Company, Minneapolis, Minnesota pFriem Family Brewers, Hood River, Oregon Fremont Brewing, Seattle, Washington The Florida Brewery, Auburndale, Florida BJ's Restaurants, Inc., Huntington Beach, California Russian River Brewing Co., Santa Rosa, California Shipyard Brewing Co., Portland, Maine New Trail Brewing Company, Williamsport, Pennsylvania Zero Gravity Craft Brewery, Burlington, Vermont Fat Head's Brewery, Middleburg Heights, Ohio Drake's Brewing Co./Bear Republic, San Leandro, California Rogue Ales Brewery, Newport, Oregon Rhinegeist opened in 2013, according to its website, and has grown since. It opened a second location in Camp Washington and has expanded its distribution to several states, most recently Michigan. The brewery's year-round selection of beers includes Truth IPA, Cincy Light lager and Beer For Humans easy hop ale. Its seasonal releases include Crumb Cake imperial red ale, Hustle IPA and Franz Oktoberfest. Beer For Humans is the face of Rhinegeist's charitable giving program. The brewery gives to about 300 organizations through Beer for Humans Pint Nights, in-kind donations, volunteer hours, emergency relief, DEI initiatives, event partnerships, and local membership engagement, according to its website. Great Lakes Brewing bills itself as Ohio's original craft brewery, according to its website. Founded in 1988, the brewery distributes to 14 states and the District of Columbia and offers year-round staples such as Dortmunder Gold Lager and Hazecraft IPA as well as seasonal beers like Oktoberfest and Christmas Ale. calls Christmas Ale a "cult favorite" for Great Lakes, which turns its annual release into an event, the First Pour. Founded in Scotland in 2007, BrewDog operates nine bars in the United States, including several in the Columbus area along with locations in Cincinnati and Cleveland in Ohio and outposts in Atlanta, Las Vegas and Denver. Those are among 100 BrewDog bars and four breweries worldwide, according to its website. It also has a hotel, the Doghouse Columbus Hotel, at its brewery in Canal Winchester. Its beers range from IPAs like Elvis Juice and Punk IPA to stouts and non-alcoholic varieties. Fat Head's opened in 2009 at its flagship brewpub in North Olmstead, according to its website. Its first production brewery followed in 2012, and a new brewery was built in 2018 as demand increased. A second brewpub in Canton also opened that year. Its beers include several IPAs like Head Hunter, Jungle Juice and Sunshine Daydream as well as other styles like Bumble Berry honey blueberry ale, and Goggle Fogger hefeweizen. According to the Brewers Association, there were 9,612 operating craft breweries in 2024, down from 9,747 the year before. The association said 2024 was the first year since 2005 that the overall number of operating craft breweries declined nationwide. However, employment in the craft brewing sector grew 3% from the previous year, to 197,112 in 2024. The association reports that the rise was driven by the shift toward hospitality-focused models such as taprooms and brewpubs, which create more jobs in local communities. Craft brewers produced 23.1 million barrels of beer in 2024, down 4.0% from 2023. However, craft's market share by volume remained essentially flat at 13.3%, the same as the previous year, as the overall U.S. beer market declined by 1.2% in volume. This article originally appeared on Cincinnati Enquirer: 4 Ohio breweries rank among best craft beer firms in nation. Full list
