(San Diego, CA) – Worldwide brewery/beer model Mikkeller Beer has shuttered one more brick and mortar location within the US, this time, their manufacturing brewery and tasting room in San Diego. The Full Pint might be discussing this on an upcoming podcast, please click on right here to subscribe so you don’t miss that. Beneath is the press launch despatched out by Mikkeller.
After 6 years the well-known Danish craft brewery might be ceasing operations at its brewery and tasting room in San Diego, California, however will proceed its enterprise within the US by means of contract brewing, which has all the time been one of many keys to Mikkeller´s international success. San Diego-based AleSmith Brewing Firm will brew Mikkeller beers sooner or later, and Mikkeller stays dedicated to its product innovation within the US craft beer market and to service American distribution companions dependably and effectively.
Two years of Covid and the troublesome present rising value atmosphere have taken its toll on the worldwide brewing enterprise, and sadly Mikkeller isn’t any exception. After working its personal 30,000 Hectoliter brewery in San Diego for greater than six years, Mikkeller has determined to promote the brewery property and return to its contract brewing roots.
“This has been a really arduous resolution for us to make and comes with a variety of heartache for the Mikkeller workers affected by the closing. The hardships dealing with the craft beer business and the financial system at giant are identified to anybody; provide chain points, rising prices, and unstable market circumstances post-pandemic simply to call a number of. Sadly, which means that it’s simply not sustainable anymore to maintain working our San Diego brewery,” Mikkeller founder Mikkel Bjergsø explains. He emphasizes that Mikkeller will nonetheless stay dedicated to distributors, prospects and companions within the US.
A return to the contract brewing roots
The Mikkeller model will return to its roots of brewing within the US as a contract brewery. That is nothing new for the corporate; contract brewing has been one of many keys to Mikkeller’s international success, as the corporate began contract brewing in 2006 and nonetheless contract brews over 90% of the beer it sells globally. Mikkeller’s key worth proposition has all the time been based mostly on its robust model, high quality beers, distinctive recipes, ingenious collaborations and iconic artwork – all of which the corporate stays dedicated to persevering with as a contract brewery in America.
To execute on this imaginative and prescient, Mikkeller has created a long-term partnership with San Diego’s iconic AleSmith Brewing Firm to proceed contract brewing its award-winning portfolio of beers for the US market. Mikkeller’s collaboration and friendship with AleSmith goes again a few years, as AleSmith Founder Peter Zien and Mikkeller founder Mikkel Bjergsø started collaborating on beers in 2007, which finally led to Mikkeller’s buy of AleSmith’s first brewery in 2016 – which was changed into Mikkeller Brewing San Diego.
“The one factor that makes the craft beer group completely different from so many different industries is the willingness to collaborate, assist one another in arduous occasions, and develop collectively. We constructed this firm on that sort of cooperation from the very starting over 15 years in the past and shifting ahead might be no completely different,” Bjergsø says.
Mikkeller will proceed its product innovation within the US craft beer market, together with launching a US-brewed model of its well-known non-alcoholic beers Drink’within the Solar and Bizarre Climate, which might be out there within the US later this yr.
Aside from its important contract manufacturing on the Belgian brewery De Proef Brouwerji, and its new contract brewing partnership at AleSmith, Mikkeller nonetheless operates three smaller breweries in Copenhagen and London.
Mikkeller will instantly search patrons for its present US places, which embrace a turnkey San Diego brewery (30k Hectoliter capability) and warehouse. Mikkeller will proceed to personal and function its retail places in San Francisco and Little Italy, San Diego. events ought to contact Matthew Lisowski, VP/GM Mikkeller USA, at [email protected] Mikkeller is dedicated to helping its workers by means of this transition together with truthful severance and help with job transition companies.
Mikkeller
- Was based by math and physics instructor Mikkel Bjergsø, who began homebrewing in his kitchen in Copenhagen in 2003
- Distributes beers to over 50 nations
- Operates 48 bars and eating places in 18 completely different nations around the globe
- Contract brews 90 % of its beer, primarily at De Proef Brouwerij in Belgium
- Owns and operates three breweries in London and Copenhagen
- Based the Mikkeller Working Membership with 250 chapters and roughly 20,000 members around the globe
- Yearly hosts main beer festivals Mikkeller Beer Celebration Copenhagen (MBCC) and Mikkeller Beer Celebration Tokyo (MBCT)
