Brewbound introduced its 2022 Award Winners and sophistication of Rising Stars through the multimedia commerce publication’s Brewbound Stay enterprise convention in the present day in Santa Monica, California.
The Brewbound Awards acknowledge giant and small beverage-alcohol corporations that thrived over the past 12 months, whereas additionally celebrating notable business figures, change brokers, up-and-coming entrepreneurs and philanthropic initiatives.
Winners of the ninth annual Brewbound Awards embody:
Craft Brewery of the 12 months: Fiddlehead Brewing Firm
Since its founding in 2010, Fiddlehead has recorded double-digit development every year throughout its eight markets, and cracked the Brewers Affiliation’s record of the High 50 Craft Breweries by quantity in 2021, rising manufacturing to greater than 51,000 barrels. Driving the Shelburne, Vermont-based craft brewery’s development is flagship Fiddlehead IPA, which accounts for round 88% of the corporate’s gross sales, and has catapulted the corporate into the highest 10 craft development corporations in NielsenIQ off-premise tracked channels this 12 months.
Massive Brewery of the 12 months: Georgetown Brewing Firm
Georgetown’s draft-first focus was challenged through the COVID-19 pandemic, as bars and eating places shuttered. This led to an -8% decline in manufacturing in 2020. In a fortuitous transfer, the Seattle-headquartered craft brewery added a canning line in 2017 that helped assist its off-premise shift in 2020. In 2021, Georgetown bounced again in a giant means, reaching its highest quantity output ever at greater than 108,000 barrels. That made Georgetown the twenty fifth largest Brewers Affiliation-defined craft brewery by quantity.
Past Beer Firm of the 12 months: Schilling Onerous Cider
Schilling Onerous Cider is targeted on making a people-first group and establishing a robust inner tradition. However the Seattle, Washington-headquartered cidery has posted wins within the off-premise channel in recent times. Within the exhausting cider phase, Schilling is the No. 4 model household and inside placing distance of No. 3. The corporate additionally ranks No.1 by way of incremental {dollars} gained in comparison with a 12 months in the past, based on NielsenIQ information shared by Bump Williams Consulting.
Individual of the 12 months: Jennifer Briggs, Former Trendy Instances CEO
Jennifer Briggs assumed the CEO function from Trendy Instances founder Jacob McKean, who resigned in Might 2021 as the corporate was embroiled in poisonous office allegations. Briggs’ tenure wasn’t with out its share of adverse choices, guiding Trendy Instances by way of the tumult of monetary instability, the closure of 5 taprooms and an public sale course of that created extra confusion concerning the San Diego brewery’s possession quandary. Nevertheless, Briggs steered Trendy Instances with sensitivity, honesty and transparency, whereas sustaining a people-first mindset.
Finally, Maui Brewing bought Trendy Instances in a brand new platform Craft Ohana. Briggs’ work to information the brewery into the platform by way of a lot adversity is price recognizing.
Innovation of the 12 months: New Belgium’s Voodoo Ranger Juice Drive IPA
Launched in January, Juice Drive, a 9.5% ABV hazy imperial IPA, turned the No. 1 craft beer launch of all time. By 12 months finish, Juice Drive rocketed up the gross sales charts to the sting of being a prime 10 craft beer model in IRI tracked channels. Going into 2023, New Belgium will look to capitalize on that success with one other Juice Drive model, believed to be Fruit Drive, a 9.5% ABV fruit punch IPA.
Beer Champion of the 12 months: The Minnesota Craft Brewers Guild
In 2022, the Minnesota Craft Brewers Guild succeeded in passing laws to assist small brewers promote 4- and 6-packs of beer to-go, in addition to including growler gross sales privileges for brewers making as much as 150,000 barrels yearly.
Minnesota lawmakers had been reluctant to approve these privileges, however the legislative tide modified in 2022. Brewers producing greater than 20,000 barrels had beforehand been restricted from providing growlers to-go, whereas producers making fewer than 7,500 barrels couldn’t provide 4- and 6- packs to-go from their taprooms. These adjustments checked two of the bins for Minnesota craft brewers, and the guild was instrumental in getting them throughout the end line.
Brewbound additionally honored its 2022 class of Rising Stars. The eight rising alcoholic beverage corporations embody:
- Atrevida Beer Co., Colorado Springs, Colorado
- Hello-Wire Brewing, Asheville, North Carolina
- Jiant Kombucha, Culver Metropolis, California
- Métier Brewing Firm, Woodinville, Washington
- Modist Brewing, Minneapolis, Minnesota
- Talea Beer Co., Brooklyn, New York
- Waterbird Spirits, Charlottesville, Virginia
- White Lion Brewing, Springfield, Massachusetts
“The challenges going through the beer class in 2022 had been unrelenting, however Brewbound’s Award Winners and sophistication of Rising Stars had been standouts for not simply enterprise efficiency however the best way they helped their groups, their communities and the general business,” stated Brewbound editor Justin Kendall. “We’re thrilled to honor this 12 months’s Award Winners and Rising Stars.”
About Brewbound
Revealed by BevNET.com Inc., Brewbound is a number one multi-media business commerce publication offering complete protection of the beer area, evaluation of business developments and in-depth interviews with business leaders. Along with offering each day information, Brewbound additionally gathers entrepreneurs and executives to change concepts, focus on the state of the business and listen to methods for succeeding within the alcohol beverage phase through a collection of nationwide meetups, multi-day enterprise conferences, live-streamed reveals and podcasts.
