Big layoffs at Tilray, breweries for sale, and the cost of beer at NFL games

Bad news keeps coming for craft beer

A commenter online noted, "I thought they were the good guys," when discussing a recent round of massive layoffs at Tilray-owned breweries.  We did too.  Good guys or not, when breweries are owned by a huge corporation most (all?) of the emotional attachment is removed from ownership.  Where a family-owned brewery may push through tough times and try to keep people working, for better or worse, a large corporation has no interest in such tomfoolery.  Plus, when you merge several breweries you're definitely going to have some duplication of duties in the workforce.

And with that said Tilray cleaned house at 10 Barrel, Sweetwater, and Terrapin.  No one was safe with Terrapin laying off brewery co-founder Spike Buckowski and President Dustin Watts.  The entire Innovation Brewing team at 10 Barrel was let go, and several salespeople across all three breweries.  This news always sucks, but this one hit us close to home with many of our friends impacted.

In other news... Anderson Valley Brewing is for sale.  President and CEO Kevin McGee joined us in March (Beer Guys Radio Ep. 408) and everything seemed great then.  His plan was for the brewery to be a multi-generational venture. Looks like those plans have changed.

The insane costs of attending an NFL game

According to data from bookies.com taking your family of 4 to an NFL game could cost you nearly $2,000 (including beers) if you're going to see the Lions.  Their numbers include the cheapest tickets, parking, food, sodas, and beer.  If you want a more affordable experience you better be a Jaguars fan.  See all the data here.

We can't take much more over here, y'all.  We need some good news for beer.  Well, at least we have beer.

Cheers!

Tim

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