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Beer Wall on Penn Has Closed

B. Kline — Sat, 28 Sep 2024 03:12:48 +0000

Beer Wall on Penn has announced they are officially closed.

Beer Wall on Penn has announced they are officially closed

Another staple of craft beer in Reading, Pennsylvania, has announced they are closed. Located at 619 Penn Ave, West Reading, PA 19611, the Beer Wall on Penn has been in operation for nearly five and a half years. On the same street as Chatty Monks Brewing / Pagoda City Brewing, Willow Creek Brewing, and Broken Chair Brewery. In just the past two years Chatty Monks has undergone big changes and turned into Pagoda City Brewing with new management, Willow Creek Brewing has closed, and Broken Chair Brewery just recently closed as well.

Their announcement on social media reads:

**Important Announcement**

After 5 1/2 incredible years the ave, we regret to inform you that Beer Wall on Penn has closed it’s doors. We want to take this opportunity to express our heartfelt gratitude to all our amazing current and past employees. Your hard work, dedication, and passion have played an essential role in making Beer Wall a household name. To our customers, thank you for every pint poured, every smile shared, and every memory created. We couldn’t have done it without you. I got to live out a dream and for that, I’m forever thankful. It was one hell of a run!

We have retained our assets and “R” liquor license. If anyone is interested, please email beerwallonpenn@gmail.com

Beer Wall on Penn – Facebook Post

They posted this just a few hours ago at 8:38 AM.

Reactions

Some reactions from people on Reddit, Facebook, and others talk about Reading, and the craft beer industry as a whole. For examples…

Broken Chair brewing, Say Cheese, Nitro Bar, Willow Creek Brewery, and now Beer Wall on Penn closed. WHAT THE HELL WEST READING?!?!?!

Scott Horner

And from Reddit:

Say Cheese, Nitro Bar, and West Reading Motor Club all closed because of a scandal involving the club owners son who managed Nitro and WMC. From what I’ve heard: none of those restaurants were profitable anyway.

Broken Chair’s owner said he was promoted at work, close to retirement, wanted to slow down and not invest more into growing the business.

Willowcreek closed because the owners retired.

Beer Wall: no clue.

My opinion: the restaurant/brewery business isn’t an easy one. And there were so many in WR. Two of the originals (Chatty Monks and Barley Mow) still seem busy. People might say it’s prices and inflation but Barley Mow is the most expensive of them all yet they’re busy because the food is amazing.

Most businesses fail in good times and bad. Honestly, I have no idea how half the businesses in WR make any money and most close within a year. Either there’s just no demand, they don’t market, or another business in a saturated market gets most of the business. That’s how capitalism works!

/r/Reading, PA – Beer Wall on Penn Closes After Five Years in Business

For More Information on Beer Wall on Penn

For more information on the Beer Wall on Penn, you can find them at these social media platforms:

Beer Wall on Penn – Official Website
Beer Wall on Penn – Facebook
Beer Wall on Penn – Instagram

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The Bruery Store D.C. Is Closed

B. Kline — Wed, 03 May 2023 00:41:59 +0000

The Bruery Store D.C. Is Closed

Today at 6 PM, The Bruery posted on Facebook and Instagram that ‘The Bruery Store D.C. Is Closed’.

Their store in Washington D.C. has been open since 2017. The Bruery has consistently been a top brewery in America since their inception.

The Bruery cited rising costs and new opportunities as their reasoning for closing the Washington D.C. store.

The Bruery Store Announcement

Important update for The Bruery Store D.C.

As of May 1, 2023, The Bruery Store D.C. will be closing. We’ve enjoyed our stay in Union Market since its opening in 2017, but due to rising costs and new opportunities, we made the hard decision to shift our focus in the D.C. area.

With this change comes new opportunities, including:

SHIPPING EXPANSION

Perhaps most excitingly, you’re now able to have your favorite beers from The Bruery & Offshoot shipped to your door in 47 states plus D.C. We’re thrilled about this new opportunity, and we know many of you have been waiting patiently for this to be available!

The Store’s closure in large part allows us to shift our focus to better supporting this new shipping availability.

ORDER PICK-UPS

We’ll still have order pick-up options for our Members in the D.C. area. Please reference your email for pick-up location and instructions, or reach out to us at society @ thebruery .com with any questions. At this time, pick-ups in D.C. are only available for our Society Members; reach out with any questions!

We’re grateful for our community, both in the D.C. area and nationwide. Thank you for your ongoing support and patience as we perfect our shipping and pick-up processes. Cheers and we can’t wait to share a beer with you soon!
The Bruery – Facebook Post

For More Information on The Bruery

The following comes from Untappd. The Bruery is a regional brewery from Placentia, CA. They have 620 unique beers with over 2 million ratings, and a global average rating of 4.07 (as of 5.2.23). Their Untappd description reads: “We are a boutique craft brewery located in Orange County, California specializing in experimental and barrel aged beer. Our name is a fusion of ‘brewery’ with our family name, Rue. Our calling is to create beers with character and depth using the simplest and purest of means. We strive to use unconventional ingredients, and we will proudly state what we put in our beers.”

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Founders Announce Closure of their Detroit Taproom

B. Kline — Tue, 02 May 2023 00:05:00 +0000

Founders Brewing Company’s Announcement

Founders Brewing Company Announces Closure of Their Detroit Taproom

Founders Brewing Company – Detroit Taproom

Just a little bit ago (about a hour and a half ago) (at 6:30PM EST), Founders Brewing Company posted on their social media accounts that they are closing their Detroit Taproom.

Citing COVID-19 related issues and other economic related causes. (Founders Brewing Company also disabled comments on their Facebook and Instagram announcement posts.)

Their announcement reads:

It is with with great sadness that we announce that the Founders Detroit Taproom will be permanently closings its doors today.

Unfortunately, our Detroit location has not been immune to the struggle to regain foot traffic after temporary Covid closures that have impacted restaurants and bars across the nation. We are working diligently to find new positions within the company for the employees impacted by this closure.

We would like to thank all of our loyal customers, Mug Clubbers, and friends for your support and business over the years. It has been a great pleasure to serve you.
Founders Brewing Company – Facebook Post

The Detroit Free Press had more information as per their closure.

The Grand Rapids-based brewery, Michigan’s largest, cited “an ever changing craft beer market, coupled with the struggle to regain foot traffic after temporary COVID-19 closures” as the reasons for shuttering its second location, which originally opened in late 2017 at 456 Charlotte in Midtown Detroit.

“This decision involved a lot of careful consideration of each aspect of our business, and ultimately, what we felt was best for the company and our employees overall,” said Founders CEO Elton Andres Knight in a statement. “We explored every possible avenue to course correct the business and gave it as much time as we could. We are now working diligently to find new positions within the company for the employees who are displaced upon this closure.”
Founders Brewing Co. closes Detroit taproom, cites ‘ever-changing’ craft beer market

Racial Discrimination

In October of 2019, Founders Brewing Company announced that they were closing the Detroit taproom “until further notice”.

Michigan’s largest brewery sent an email to ticket-holders of this weekend’s highly anticipated Canadian Breakfast Stout release and party in Detroit that it’s canceling said release and party while closing the popular Detroit taproom indefinitely “in light of the recent events” and due to safety concerns for its employees.

Those “recent events,” of course, include the pending racial discrimination lawsuit that reached national news this week when a leaked deposition first posted by the Detroit Metro Times sparked a social media firestorm and led to some Detroit shops, bars and restaurants pulling Founders products from their shelves.

Founders co-founder and president Dave Engbers told the Free Press on Friday afternoon that the brewery closed its Detroit taproom out of an abundance of caution for employee safety and that it has “every intention” of reopening the taproom.
Founders Brewing closes Detroit taproom indefinitely amid racial discrimination lawsuit

Founders, which had announced a majority-stake sale to Spanish beer company Mahou San Miguel just weeks earlier, temporarily closed its Detroit taproom in October 2019 after a racial discrimination lawsuit a former employee filed against the company made national headlines and caused a social media firestorm. It reopened the taproom in February 2020 with plans to donate 100% of the profits from the taproom to charities and community organizations through “at least 2022” (it continued that commitment through Sunday, the company said). The COVID-19 pandemic began a month later.

Mike Stevens and Dave Engbers co-founded Founders in 1997 and, along with Larry Bell and Bell’s Brewery, helped lead the Michigan craft beer boom into the 2000s and 2010s. Founders became best known for its sessionable All Day IPA, which represents more than half its output, as well as its Kentucky Breakfast Stout, Dirty Bastard scotch ale and Centennial IPA.

Stevens stepped down as CEO in 2022. Engbers is still with the company as president.
Founders Brewing Co. closes Detroit taproom, cites ‘ever-changing’ craft beer market

Founders Brewing Company

Founders Brewing Company was certainly one of the early craft giants of the 2010s, but their market share, and value has greatly declined over recent years. While still greatly available and distributed, they have fallen off many ‘favorites’ lists.

Their controversies and issues have also certainly caught up to them over the years.

Lawsuits, racial discrimination cases, employee issues, and much more has caused them heartache throughout the late 2010s and early 2020s.

COVID-19 and the coronavirus has probably been the least of their issues in recent years.

For further information on craft beer market share, check out our two articles here:

For More Information About Founders Brewing Company

The following comes from Untappd. Founders Brewing Company is a macro brewery, and a subsidary of Grupo Mahou-San Miguel, from Grand Rapids, Michigan. They have 975 unique beers, and over 7 million ratings, with a global average rating of 3.96 (as of 5.1.23). Their Untappd description reads: We don’t brew beer for the masses. Instead, our beers are crafted for a chosen few, a small cadre of renegades and rebels who enjoy a beer that pushes the limits of what is commonly accepted as taste. In short, we make beer for people like us. Founders. Brewed for us.

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We are totally psyched and cannot wait.

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