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Licensing Agreements | 9 Months Ended
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Sep. 30, 2023
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Licensing Agreements | M. Licensing Agreements Pepsi Licensing Agreement On August 9, 2021, the Company signed a series of agreements with PepsiCo, Inc. (“Pepsi”) to develop, market and sell alcohol beverages. The term of this agreement is perpetual, with provisions to terminate within the initial 2 years for a limited number of reasons. Under this agreement the Company is responsible for developing, manufacturing, and marketing a flavored malt beverage product under Pepsi’s MTN DEW® brand. As part of the agreements, Pepsi provides certain proprietary ingredients and also licenses the Company the use of its MTN DEW® and Hard MTN DEW® trademarks in connection with manufacturing, promoting, marketing, and distributing the developed product through the Pepsi distribution network. The Company retains the right to distribute the developed product through its own distribution network for customers in the on-premise channel. The Company began shipping flavored malt beverages to Pepsi during the first quarter of 2022. Pursuant to the terms of the agreements, the Company makes payments to Pepsi for proprietary ingredients, freight costs to ship the product to Pepsi, and certain marketing services. The cost of the proprietary ingredients above fair market value are recorded within net revenue at the time revenue is recognized for the flavored malt beverages sold to Pepsi and were $0.4 million and $1.7 million during the thirteen weeks and thirty-nine weeks ended September 30, 2023, respectively, and were $0.7 million and $1.8 million during the thirteen weeks and thirty-nine weeks ended September 24, 2022, respectively. Freight costs and marketing costs are recorded in advertising, promotional and selling expenses. The excess cost over fair market value of proprietary ingredients on hand at the end of the period are classified within prepaid expenses and other current assets. The excess over fair market value for inventory on hand was $0.2 million and $0.4 million as of September 30, 2023 and December 31, 2022, respectively. During the thirteen and thirty-nine weeks ended September 30, 2023, total net revenue recognized under these agreements amounted to approximately 1% and 3%, respectively, of the Company's total net revenues. During the thirteen weeks ended September 24, 2022, total net revenue recognized under these agreements amounted to approximately 1% of the Company's total net revenues.

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