By Patrick Danner, Staff writer | San Antonio Express-News (SAEN), 2025-02-04 09:21:53
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阿拉莫啤酒公司有限责任公司(Alamo Beer Co. LLC)是圣安东尼奥市精酿啤酒行业中的一个知名品牌，近日在行业持续困境中申请了破产重组。
周一，该公司提交了一份简略的第11章破产申请，列出的估计资产和负债均在100万至1000万美元之间。
这份长达19页的申请书没有详细说明导致阿拉莫啤酒向圣安东尼奥市美国破产法院寻求庇护的具体事件。提交第11章破产申请通常表明，一家陷入困境的公司将试图重组其债务，并最终摆脱破产。
但此次破产申请的提交，正值阿拉莫啤酒的大股东尤金·西莫(Eugene Simor)一直在探索各种方案之际，包括出售部分公司、品牌或其位于东区附近的房产，西莫于2014年在那里开设了一家工厂。
西莫没有立即回复电子邮件。阿拉莫啤酒的破产律师比尔·金曼(Bill Kingman)也没有立即回复电话留言。
阿拉莫啤酒公司在伯内特街415号一栋超过18,000平方英尺的建筑内运营，该建筑位于海斯街大桥的阴影下。贝克萨尔评估区的网站显示，该建筑的评估价值为580万美元。
2023年，阿拉莫啤酒与另一家当地啤酒厂Viva Beer合并，并收购了位于奥斯汀的ShotGun Seltzer。
然而，自疫情以来，该行业一直处于动荡之中。
美国酿酒商协会（Brewers Association）的经济学家马特·加西奥奇(Matt Gacioch)去年年底表示，在2010年代中期，每年新开张的啤酒厂、啤酒酒吧和啤酒屋的数量大约是倒闭数量的10倍。该协会是一个位于科罗拉多州博尔德的贸易组织，代表着全美的小型和独立精酿啤酒厂。
虽然德克萨斯州新开张的啤酒厂数量没有急剧下降，但倒闭的数量却稳步增加。
根据美国酿酒商协会的最新数据，2023年，德克萨斯州全州新开了51家啤酒厂、啤酒酒吧和啤酒屋，关闭了30家。2022年，新开了39家，关闭了33家。
在圣安东尼奥市，2023年新开了5家，没有关闭的。2022年，新开了2家，但关闭了4家。
2024年，圣安东尼奥市和整个德克萨斯州的啤酒厂倒闭数量激增，几家啤酒厂关门歇业，其他一些啤酒厂则改变了商业计划，试图维持下去。
风化灵魂酿酒公司(Weathered Souls Brewing Co.)在经营八年后于9月份关闭，理由是“财务压力”过大，难以承受。于2020年开业的第二球啤酒公司(Second Pitch Beer Co.)在3月份关门歇业，原因是扩张和销售额下降导致财务困难。破凉鞋酿酒公司(Busted Sandal Brewing Co.)也在10月份关闭了其三个分店，距离第一家分店开业已有11年。
破凉鞋酿酒公司在Facebook帖子中表示：“我们已经黔驴技穷，在不久的将来没有任何办法可以扭转这种经济局面，并减轻客户在住房、食品和日常生活方面的个人成本负担。”
附近城市的啤酒厂最近也纷纷倒闭，包括2023年在博尔内的巴雷尔曼酿酒公司(Barrelman Brewing Co.)和2月份在康福特的运动酿酒公司(Kinematic Brewing Co.)。
“路线图酿酒公司(Roadmap Brewing Co.)”的共同所有者兼酿酒师达斯汀·贝克(Dustin Baker)去年年底告诉《圣安东尼奥快报》，该公司在市中心经营一家啤酒屋。“对于城里所有的啤酒厂来说，这都是一个艰难的处境，无论他们是否公开表现出来。”
所有啤酒厂都在努力应对劳动力成本、啤酒原料、二氧化碳和包装及罐装材料成本的上涨，以及随着房产税和保险成本的上升而不断上涨的租金。
餐馆和酒吧老板也在应对成本上升和销售额下降的问题，这促使他们从当地啤酒厂订购的啤酒桶减少。今年和去年夏天的高温天气让人们待在室内，也影响了许多啤酒厂的业绩。
其他可能导致该行业困境的因素包括在家办公的趋势（越来越少的员工下班后与同事一起去欢乐时光），以及对精酿啤酒的热情减退。
阿拉莫啤酒的破产申请中列出了其最大的20家无担保债权人，其中大多数欠款低于2.5万美元。
西莫被列为阿拉莫啤酒的最大股东，持有73.3%的股份。一个西莫家族合伙企业持有近13.2%的股份，西莫家族信托1号持有约5.6%的股份。
所有其他股东的持股比例均低于1%，包括前市长菲尔·哈德伯格(Phil Hardberger)和前马刺队高管布伦特·巴里(Brent Barry)，后者现在是菲尼克斯太阳队的助理教练。
Alamo Beer Co. filed for Chapter 11 bankruptcy reorganization on Monday.
Eugene Simor, Alamo Beer Co.'s majority owner, is shown in 2019. He signed Alamo Beer’s bankruptcy papers.
Alamo Beer Co., which filed for bankruptcy protection Monday, launched more than a decade ago.
Alamo Beer Co. is located next to the Hays Street Bridge and produces a large lineup of beers, including the one that started it all, Alamo Golden Ale.
Alamo Beer Co. is located next to the Hays Street Bridge and produces a large lineup of beers. It sought bankruptcy protection on Monday.
The interior of the tasting room at Alamo Beer Co.
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Alamo Beer Co. files for bankruptcy amid industry struggles
Alamo Beer Co. LLC, a ubiquitous name in San Antonio’s craft brewery scene, has filed for bankruptcy reorganization amid the industry’s ongoing struggles.
On Monday, the company filed a skeleton Chapter 11 petition listing estimated assets and liabilities each in the range of $1 million to $10 million.
The 19-page petition offered no details on the events that led Alamo Beer to seek refuge in U.S. Bankruptcy Court in San Antonio. A Chapter 11 petition generally signals that a distressed company will attempt to reorganize its debts and emerge from bankruptcy.
But the bankruptcy comes as Alamo Beer majority owner Eugene Simor has been exploring options for the brewery, including selling part of it, its brands or its property on the near East Side where he opened a facility in 2014.
Simor didn’t immediately respond to an email. Bill Kingman, Alamo Beer’s bankruptcy lawyer, didn’t immediately respond to a phone message.
Alamo Beer operates in a more than 18,000-square-foot building at 415 Burnet St. in the shadows of the Hays Street Bridge. The building has an assessed value of $5.8 million, the Bexar Appraisal District’s website shows.
In 2023, Alamo Beer merged with Viva Beer, another local brewer, and acquired Austin-based ShotGun Seltzer.
The industry, though, has been in turmoil since the pandemic.
In the mid-2010s, roughly 10 times more breweries, brewpubs and taprooms were opening than closing every year, Matt Gacioch, an economist at the Brewers Association, a Boulder, Colo.-based trade group representing small and independent craft brewers across the U.S., said late last year.
While openings haven’t dropped off steeply in Texas, the number of closures has steadily increased.
In 2023, 51 breweries, brewpubs and taprooms opened across the state and 30 closed, according to the most recent data available from the Brewers Association. In 2022, 39 opened as 33 shut down.
In San Antonio, five opened and none closed in 2023. In 2022, two opened but four closed.
In 2024, closures spiked both in San Antonio and across the state, with several breweries shutting down and others shifting business plans and trying to hang on.
Weathered Souls Brewing Co. closed in September after eight years in business, citing “financial pressures” that became too tough to bear. Second Pitch Beer Co., which opened in 2020, shut its doors in March amid financial difficulties caused by an expansion and decreasing sales. Busted Sandal Brewing Co. also shuttered its three locations in October, 11 years after the first one opened.
“There are no more tricks up our sleeves and nothing in the immediate future that can turn this economy around and lower the burden on our customer’s personal costs of housing, food and day to day life,” Busted Sandal said in a Facebook post.
Breweries in nearby cities also have shut down recently, including Barrelman Brewing Co. in Boerne in 2023 and Kinematic Brewing Co. in Comfort in February.
“It’s a tough situation for all the breweries in town, whether they’re outwardly showing it or not,” Dustin Baker, co-owner and brewer at Roadmap Brewing Co., which operates a taproom downtown, told the San Antonio Express-News late last year.
All are struggling with higher costs for labor, ingredients for making beer, carbon dioxide and materials for packaging and canning, along with rising rents as property taxes and insurance costs escalate.
Restaurant and bar owners also are dealing with increasing costs and declining sales, prompting them to order fewer kegs from local brewers. Sizzling summer temperatures kept people indoors this year and last, cutting into results for many of them.
Other factors that may be contributing to the industry’s woes are the work-from-home trend, with fewer workers heading from the office to happy hour with colleagues, and waning enthusiasm for craft beer.
Alamo Beer’s bankruptcy petition includes a list of its 20 of its largest unsecured creditors, most owed under $25,000.
Simor is listed as Alamo Beer’s largest owner, with a 73.3% stake. A Simor family partnership owns nearly 13.2% and Simor Family Trust-1 owns about 5.6%.
All other owners hold less than a 1% interest, including former Mayor Phil Hardberger and former Spurs executive Brent Barry, who is now an assistant coach with the Phoenix Suns.
By Patrick Danner, Staff writer, via San Antonio Express-News