Meet A-B’s New Crafty FMB Platform, LQD

Dear Client: Last April we reported on a small but interesting innovation play from A-B: a beverage fermented from green tea and coconut water, produced at 10 Barrel. Dubbed LQD, it piloted in California and parts of the Pac Northwest [see BBD 04-26-2019]. Now it appears the LQD entity has been expanded to an entire platform of better-for-you "beyond beer" beverages, with a craft producer halo. A-B has announced this week that its Brewers Collective have "venture[d] into the flavored