From local restaurant manager to sales rep at Kunda Beverage, and on to a career with Heineken – the world’s most international beer brand – the Philadelphia beer scene is where Raffel has made his mark. But it was a long road to his current position at HUSA as a Senior Market Manager. BTW –…
As the daughter of Dock Street’s co-founders, Renata Certo-Ware has seen the evolution of Philly’s modern craft beer scene from the front lines. In the business since she was 16 years old, dropping off samples and tap handles to local bars, Certo-Ware is now head of business development & marketing for the brewery. Along with…
Pretentious? Never. Passionate? Always. That phrase describes 2SP Brewing Co., the small but mighty craft brewery and pride of Delco to a T, but it’s also a fitting description of their Director of Sales and Marketing, Mike Contreras. While Contreras originally had dreams of obtaining a PhD., his mother recognized that his talents and passion…
Do you remember The Book and the Cook, the long-running Philly food event where food-lovers, cookbook authors and brewing entrepreneurs mingled in a space where they used to film American Bandstand? Both are long gone, but Wendy Domurat, an icon in her own right, has a photograph of herself at the event with Dogfish Head…
Sly Fox’s former Director of Sales leads the brewery into a new year with a new position. Sly Fox Brewing Co. Has been a part of Peter Giannopoulos’ family since he was just six years old. Having worked his way up from a Forklift Trainer to one of the youngest Sales Directors in Pennsylvania’s craft…
Sean Hamel is not just your local Mass Bay Brewing sales rep (home of Harpoon and UFO Beer), he’s also part owner of the company! Well, technically since 2014, all full-time Mass Bay Brewing employees own a portion of the brewery, but that doesn’t make it any less impressive. In fact, as Hamel tells us, it makes…
Alicia Grasso, Marketing Director at CMBC, has spent the last six years building the brands of one of the fastest rising stars of the Northeast’s craft brewery scene. Over the years, Heady Times has written hundreds of articles profiling brewers working tirelessly to perfect their craft and make great beers. But once the beer is…
Heady Times sat down with two of our favorite beer reps, Allagash’s Suzy Woods and Katie Tella, to find out more about them, how their brewery pivoted in response to the pandemic and why retailers should be excited by Allagash’s plans for 2021. Heady Times (HT): Can you tell us how you both got into…
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