ASIC information present Grand Ridge appointed Richard Lawrence and Mitchell Ball from Mackay Goodwin as directors on Monday, with a gathering of collectors scheduled for April 8.
Equally, Black Hops yesterday appointed David Mansfield and Timothy Heenan from Deloitte as directors.
In contrast to a lot of Australia’s craft breweries, which sprung up within the 2010s amid a surge in reputation for the product, Grand Ridge has an extended historical past.
The family-owned enterprise was established within the late Nineteen Eighties and is at present based mostly in an outdated butter manufacturing facility in Mirboo North, within the Strzelecki Ranges in Victoria’s Gippsland area.
The brewery produces a spread of various beers, which it says have gained nicely over 200 awards, in addition to the Twisted Sister line of ciders.
Along with the brewery, it additionally has an on-site restaurant and public bar and a visitor home for lodging.
Black Hops is a far newer brewery, producing its first beer in 2014.
It now operates three venues â two on the Gold Coast and one in Brisbane.
The 2 firms’ strikes into administration are simply the newest in an extended line of comparable developments throughout Australia’s unbiased beer trade.
This 12 months alone has seen the likes of Wayward, Golden West, Hawkers and Massive Shed name in directors as elements such because the rising alcohol tax, competitors from main multinational brewers and retailers, rising prices, and deferred tax money owed from the pandemic mix to place important monetary stress on the unbiased companies.
9news.com.au has contacted the directors of each Grand Ridge and Black Hops for remark.
