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Dear Client: Stateside Brands’ founders do not appear to sleep. Super Lyte is running toward roughly 4 million cases this year; Surfside could reach 16 or 17 million cases by year’s end. And yet, co-founder Clem Pappas came back on BeerNet Radio this week to debut yet another new brand. This one is Playa Vida, an RTD tequila, and Stateside is launching it nationally out of the gate in time for spring resets (March/April). Clem told us all about the
Roth’s Bill Kirk: The Hemp Ban Happens, Beer Stocks Are Back, and Just Go to Philly
Dear Client: Last week we hosted Bill Kirk on Beernet Radio, the managing director and senior analyst at Roth covering beverages, cannabis, food and retail. (Full disclosure: he is also married to our own Jenn Litz-Kirk). HEMP: THE BAN HAPPENS. We started with the looming December 11 hemp THC cliff approaching: Bill doesn’t see Congress getting much done in the short lame-duck window after the midterms. “My personal view is the ban happens. It goes away,” Bill said. “Both sides
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