![]() ![]() ![]() “In March, all we knew was that all the bars and restaurants, including our own taproom, were closed for some indefinite period of time.” “If you told us in late March that we would get there, we would have taken that deal in a heartbeat,” Hendler said. Even as the 40,800 barrels Jack’s Abby sold fell short of its goal, co-founder Sam Hendler said the brewery feels blessed it managed even that amount. Jack’s Abby, now the second largest brewery outside of Boston, reported only a 3% decline in 2020 despite losing 40% of its production volume early on during the pandemic when it lost all of its on-premise accounts - bars and restaurants. The brewery is also grappling with an ownership sea change - its fours owners have all stepped down - in light of allegations that it has fostered a destructive, misogynistic culture. Before that, Wormtown had shown production increases of 44%, 15% and 27%, respectively. The pandemic clearly hurt Wormtown Brewery’s output, as its volume dropped by 28% last year, from 31,238 barrels to 22,478. Montauk, on the other hand, just cracked the top 50 last year, reporting 49,000 barrels just how much of that production came from Wachusett is unknown. Last year, that total fell to 27,250, which puts Wachusett well below the top 50 biggest breweries in the country. In 2019, Wachusett packaged and sold about 31,000 barrels of its own beer. That beer is not sold by Wachusett, but brewed as part of a contract brewing agreement. A smaller increase followed the next year, with Wachusett rising to nearly 70,000 barrels, good for 43rd on the list of the country’s largest breweries.īut Wachusett’s numbers did not paint the full picture of its production: The Westminster brewery had been including beer it brewed for Long Island’s Montauk Brewing Co. toasted another double-digit jump in volume, reporting that it sold over 64,000 barrels, up 35% from 2016’s 51,239 mark. Meanwhile two breweries that had been riding a consistent wave of growth over the last four years saw declines in production, BA data show.įour years ago, Wachusett Brewing Co. ![]()
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