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News updates from the World of Craft Beer.
um mentioned that two weeks ago in the podcast alien and radio shed fest is taking part this weekend so if you listen on patreon you'll be in advance and you'll know what's happening this weekend uh if you listen the week after you've missed it um but um shed fest taking part this weekend the 14th uh between the 14th and 16th of august the virtual music and beer festival and you can find out all the information at ale and radio.co.uk forward slash shed fest we have a beer tasting session it's being recorded and we'll be playing on sunday afternoon at 12 45 be followed by the ale and rodeo country music stage sponsored by us so um shed fest this weekend 14th between the 14th and 16th Follow Ale and Radio, Ale and Audio as well for all the information.
Like I said, head to the website.
Another one for you is the rate of breweries closing has slowed down finally.
It has slowed to one a week according to the latest stats from CBAR.
My guess is that the World Cup has potentially helped that because there's nothing that the government have done.
True that.
no i wouldn't say man of the people andy the man of the people hasn't done much
no that's true so it's good to see that um that rate has slowed down they're still breweries closing obviously apparently um it's scotland that are losing the most apparently um
There you go.
A lot of breweries on the edge with a lot on tick.
Right.
Expected to hit the bubble eventually and no.
Definitely.
A lot
of canning lines on tick to be paid for post-COVID and stuff as well, which seems like a hell of a long tail, but
give
you some good credit deals back in the day, I'd imagine, or whatever it is you've got going on, or trying to expand more tanks, etc.,
I think people have just understood that you've got to play in your lane at the moment and they know that if there's room to grow then great but I think people are being a bit smarter consolidating and understanding where their position within the whole industry is at this moment in time and people are capitalising on that there's going to be a couple of discussions we'll get to later that we can jump into that but like For me, it's like the World Cup and the summertime, everybody's like, right, let's see if we can ramp up a bit of sales and the rest of it.
But the doom days of women, we've got the crazy down period to September, October, or October, November vibe.
You get the upturn in December, and then it is the wilderness of all women.
The
doldrums.
January to March.
January, February.
News updates from the World of Craft Beer.
um mentioned that two weeks ago in the podcast alien and radio shed fest is taking part this weekend so if you listen on patreon you'll be in advance and you'll know what's happening this weekend uh if you listen the week after you've missed it um but um shed fest taking part this weekend the 14th uh between the 14th and 16th of august the virtual music and beer festival and you can find out all the information at ale and radio.co.uk forward slash shed fest we have a beer tasting session it's being recorded and we'll be playing on sunday afternoon at 12 45 be followed by the ale and rodeo country music stage sponsored by us so um shed fest this weekend 14th between the 14th and 16th Follow Ale and Radio, Ale and Audio as well for all the information.
Like I said, head to the website.
Another one for you is the rate of breweries closing has slowed down finally.
It has slowed to one a week according to the latest stats from CBAR.
My guess is that the World Cup has potentially helped that because there's nothing that the government have done.
True that.
no i wouldn't say man of the people andy the man of the people hasn't done much
no that's true so it's good to see that um that rate has slowed down they're still breweries closing obviously apparently um it's scotland that are losing the most apparently um
There you go.
A lot of breweries on the edge with a lot on tick.
Right.
Expected to hit the bubble eventually and no.
Definitely.
A lot
of canning lines on tick to be paid for post-COVID and stuff as well, which seems like a hell of a long tail, but
give
you some good credit deals back in the day, I'd imagine, or whatever it is you've got going on, or trying to expand more tanks, etc.,
I think people have just understood that you've got to play in your lane at the moment and they know that if there's room to grow then great but I think people are being a bit smarter consolidating and understanding where their position within the whole industry is at this moment in time and people are capitalising on that there's going to be a couple of discussions we'll get to later that we can jump into that but like For me, it's like the World Cup and the summertime, everybody's like, right, let's see if we can ramp up a bit of sales and the rest of it.
But the doom days of women, we've got the crazy down period to September, October, or October, November vibe.
You get the upturn in December, and then it is the wilderness of all women.
The
doldrums.
January to March.
January, February.
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