Best Day Brewing founder and CEO Tate Huffard believes the modern non-alcoholic (NA) beer movement is now in its second wave – one characterized by “belonging.”

Check out news items initially reported in the Brewbound Insider Newsletter, including headlines from NIQ, Garage Beer, New Belgium and more.

Can a letter writing campaign save Deschutes’ co-branded Kirkland Signature Helles, the same way Jess saved her childhood zoo? The Brewbound team and weekend newsletter writer Sean McNulty discuss the end of the cult favorite lager on the latest edition of the Brewbound Podcast, including an outpouring of somber reactions to the news.

Republic National Distributing Company (RNDC) plans to lay off 160 workers in Alaska by September 4, the company wrote in a July 6 WARN Act notice.

Allagash Launches Naturally Occurring Ad Campaign; Ballast Point Closes San Francisco Taproom; Battle of the Alcohol Bases: Can Consumers Tell the Difference?; Stock Watch at Halfway Point of 2026; Holidaily’s Sunny New Look

Days ahead of the Fourth of July holiday, the Brewbound team catches up on beer prices – at home and across the pond – and how Independence Day is stacking up as a heat wave sets in for much of the country.

Nearly 300 Republic National Distributing Company (RNDC) workers in Illinois are expected to be laid off as the distributor shuts down its operations in the state.

Mass Appeal Draught House and Grille opened on the eve of the kick-off of FIFA World Cup 2026 at its neighbor, Gillette Stadium. Hendler Family Brewing co-founder and CEO Sam Hendler joined the Brewbound Podcast to discuss how the multi-branded taproom handled an influx of guests, what Scottish fans prefer to drink – and what they’re not drinking.

Phusion Projects is licensing “brand assets” to another firm that has launched Nine Loko, described as a “flavor first, perception-bending jazzy cannabinoid juice.”

Beverage industry veteran and Bai founder Ben Weiss came to BevNET Live 2026 in New York City earlier this month ready to explain how these consumer shifts led him back into the beverage industry with Crooked Pop, a hard soda built on Osava.

Ten Ohio intoxicating hemp businesses can resume sales after a federal judge granted a temporary restraining order blocking the state “from taking any criminal, civil, administrative, or regulatory enforcement action” against them through June 29 (so long as they stay within the parameters of the 2018 Farm Bill).

Daizy’s Social Soda founding partner Jill Johnson, Southern Crown Partners Chief Administration Officer Justin Ashby and Diana Eberlein, Chair of the Coalition for Adult Beverage Alternatives spoke at BevNET Live NYC last week to discuss what’s next for intoxicating hemp.

Check out news items initially reported in the Brewbound Insider Newsletter, including headlines from Rabobank, BeerBoard, RNDC and more.

Athletic Brewing co-founder and CEO Bill Shufelt is “the most excited” he’s felt since founding the dedicated non-alcoholic beer brand. On the latest edition of the Brewbound Podcast, Shufelt shared what’s driving his hyped feeling, with a foundation he and co-founder John Walker laid about a decade ago.