(Van Nuys, CA) – The Los Angeles brewing scene has been dealt an sudden blow as valley favourite MacLeod Ale Brewing alerted their followers on Fb that their unique location in Van Nuys, CA and their model new location in Highland Park can be halting operations as soon as they’ve bought via their present stock of beer.
This shocked lots of the loyal followers of MacLeod, and it was famous that solely fourteen days in the past, MacLeod was promoting job openings for his or her new pizza enterprise in Highland Park. Beneath is a memo MacLeod has despatched out to members of the Los Angeles Brewers Guild. We want the most effective for the complete workers at MacLeod on their subsequent ventures.
Hello Everybody,
A few of you’ve got seen our posts immediately on Instagram. Sadly, immediately we needed to lay off our total workers and shut down each areas. We can be open for beer gross sales solely [draft and cans] within the Van Nuys taproom.
I’m a direct and open individual, so I simply wish to let you already know what’s going on. Very merely:
1] We’re over funds in a number of classes
2] We now have an excessive amount of debt as a consequence of growth
3] Sudden crash of gross sales [down 15% in Oct, 21% in November! Bad timing!]
4] Our 2nd location opened too late and is underperforming.
Through the years I’ve been in a position to scrounge up cash right here and there to maintain issues going, however I lastly got here to the tip of the street and we solely come up with the money for for one last payroll, this Friday.
We’re exploring all choices at the moment. Maybe there’s a purchaser? Possibly declare chapter? Reorganize with a brand new crew? Who is aware of, however we’re open to any and all conversations.
We even have some cool tools on the market, extra on that shortly.
Like to you all,
Jennifer
MacLeod Ale Brewing Co.
14741 Calvert Road
Van Nuys, CA 91411
