2018 has been an eerie year overall. For the brewing industry, it’s definitely had some interesting and fairly alarming moments. The beer market is bloated, breweries are slashing employees, products are mutating, natural disasters are everywhere and pollution abounds. Today, being both Halloween and an extremely boring news day, we decided to highlight these 20 stories as the most unnerving and noteworthy of 2018 so far.
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/news/lake-champlain-has-pollution-issues-vermont-craft-brewers-are-a-part-of-the-problem/
/news/subsidiary-of-boston-beer-co-fined-1-million-for-sales-of-unregistered-beer-and-malt-beverage/
/news/ttb-accepts-record-900000-offer-in-compromise-from-warsteiner-importers-agency-for-pay-to-play-arrangements/
/news/um-this-aint-good-study-finds-microplastic-in-random-beers-along-the-great-lakes/
/news/reddit-bans-beer-and-alcohol-trading-forums-starts-to-sober-up-in-general/
/news/smuttynose-brewing-sold-at-foreclosure-auction-to-private-investment-firm/
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/news/nys-saratoga-brewing-suddenly-shuts-sends-contract-brewers-scrambling-reacquire-products/
/news/green-flash-brewing-pulls-out-of-33-states-cuts-workforce-focusing-on-core-markets/
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