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Recent News:
- Wine Industry Advisor: Winery Wildfires — How Record Wildfires Are Impacting Wineries Today (April 2021)
- Insurance Journal: Risk on Tap for Craft Brewers in a Pandemic World (March 2021)
- Craft Brewing Business: How 2020 has (and hasn’t) changed craft brewery risk management (Jan 2021)
- PropertyCasualty360: Insurance Speak Podcast: Wildfires and wine don’t mix (Jan 2021)
- Insurance Journal: The Other New Normal – Wildfires from a Winery Insurer’s Perspective (Dec 2020)
- PropertyCasualty360: Riot and civil commotion exposures: Stories from recent unrest (July 2020)
- Craft Brewing Business: Proceed with caution – Changing brewery business models on the fly means new risk exposure (April 2020)
Archived News:
2019
- Craft Brewing Business: Sustainable brewing part 2: Applying renewable energy strategies in the brewery (Sept 2019)
- Craft Brewing Business: Sustainable brewing part 1: How smaller breweries can make a difference (July 2019)
- Independent Agent: Sobering Up: 3 Risk Management Techniques for Winery Clients (July 2019)
- Independent Agent: ‘Capacity Crunch’ Coming Soon for Winery Insurance (July 2019)
- Craft Brewing Business: The shift beer: Harmless craft brewery job perk or accident waiting to happen? (March 2019)
2018
- Property Casualty 360: Studying beer to sell insurance: A lesson in sales and marketing (August 2018)
- Spirited Magazine: Got You Covered – Liquor Liability Insurance Offers A Protective Shield For Alcohol Producers and Sellers (July 2018)
- Craft Brewing Business: CBC 2018: How safe is your brewery? Here’s a spring safety checklist from Brewery Pak (May 2018)
- Property Casualty 360: Wildfires & Wineries – Lessons learned from a painful year and a look ahead (March 2018)
- AM Best: Wineries Blend a Unique Mix of Underwriting Challenges (February 2018)
2017
- Risk & Insurance: Risk Rises in Wine Country (November 2017)
- Insurance Business America: Wildfires Decimating California Wine Country (October 2017)
- Insurance Journal: California Wildfires Are a ‘Larger Scale Disaster’ (October 2017)
- Beverage Master: Waste Not Want Not – Tips to Prevent Pollution for Breweries (August 2017)
- Craft Brewing Business: Cyber security for breweries: We assess the risks and how to stay protected (May 2017)
- Insurance Business America: Breweries face sobering cyber threat (February 2017)
- Craft Brewing Business: Steps to protect your brewery from wastewater pollution risks (February 2017)
2016
- Independent Agent: Crafting Solutions for Wineries, Breweries and Distilleries (November 2016)
- Independent Agent: 5 New Flavors in Winery, Brewery and Distillery Insurance (November 2016)
- Property Casualty 360: 5 things to know about wineries and wildfire claims (November 2016)
- Craft Brewing Business: Tips to protect barrel-aged beer during the brewing and aging process (October 2016)
- Craft Brewing Business: Lessons learned from a $90K beer heist: Do you have the proper theft controls in place? (July 2016)
Press Releases
PAK Programs Adds iRAD, Insurance Risk Assessment Drone Service for Breweries
Cedar Knolls, N.J. — May 27, 2020 — PAK Programs, a specialty insurer of alcoholic beverage manufacturers and distributors, is expanding their Insurance Risk Assessment Drone (iRAD) program, previously only …Read More »PAK Programs Introduces Insurance for Meaderies
An industry first, Meadery PAK® offers insurance solution for mead producers Cedar Knolls, N.J.—May 21, 2018—Today, PAK Programs, specialty insurer of alcoholic beverage manufacturers and distributors, introduces Meadery PAK. The …Read More »Pak Programs Introduces New Look, User-Friendly Website
Cedar Knolls, N.J. — November 14, 2016—Pak Programs, a provider of specialty insurance programs for wineries, vineyards, breweries, retailers and more, today introduced a new website and company brand to …Read More »
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New Terrain Brewing Company Golden, Colorado While being only 15 minutes away from downtown Denver, New Terrain Brewing Company, nestled in the Rocky Mountain foothills of Golden seemed a world …Read More »