San Antonio craft brewers Alamo Beer Co. and VIVA Beer have struck a merger deal amid a wave of consolidation sweeping the trade, the Enterprise Journal stories.
“In the previous couple of months, it grew to become obvious it will be higher to merge,” Alamo Beer CEO and founder Eugene Simor instructed the publication. “VIVA is now a part of Alamo. We’ll personal it.”
Alamo Beer, one of many metropolis’s largest and oldest craft beer firms, has been producing VIVA’s beers underneath contract for greater than a 12 months at its brewery east of downtown, in line with the Enterprise Journal. VIVA is a more recent entry to the market, having launched in 2020.
“Eugene has been a mentor of ours since we began,” VIVA co-owner Michael Johnson stated. “With the assistance of the Alamo workforce, we all know we are able to proceed to develop the model all through San Antonio and past.”
Simor instructed the Enterprise Journal he expects extra brewing trade consolidation, including that it now not is smart to construct a craft beer model from the bottom up.
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