Jessica Infante joined Brewbound in 2019 after nearly a decade in a variety of marketing roles in the craft beer industry. Prior to that, she was a daily newspaper reporter at the Jersey Shore. Jess holds a bachelor’s degree in magazine journalism from the S.I. Newhouse School of Public Communications at Syracuse University and a master’s degree in integrated marketing communication from Emerson College. She is a certified Cicerone and lives in Salem, Massachusetts.
An acquisition that “just feels right to everyone” is in the works in Washington, Bale Breaker Brewing co-owner Kevin Quinn told Brewbound. Yakima, Washington-based Bale Breaker has struck a deal to acquire Seattle’s Cloudburst Brewing as its founder Steve Luke prepares to move to New Zealand, where his wife has taken a job.
Leapfrogging was the theme across beverage-alcohol last week, as several upstarts jumped over their stalwart peers in dollar sales, according to the latest weekly report from market research firm Circana. In the beer category, Mark Anthony Brands’ White Claw out-earned Molson Coors’ Miller Lite by $218,720 during the week ending May 10. In spirits, Anheuser-Busch… Read more »
After a dozen years, Minneapolis’ Bauhaus Brew Labs will close its doors in late June, the brewery announced last week.
Bauhaus cited “a number of serious challenges” that contributed to its decision to cease operations, including “substantial cost increases in our supply chain, shifts in consumer preferences away from craft beer, a global pandemic and most recently, a surge in federal immigration enforcement that directly targeted our wonderful city and deeply affected businesses across the hospitality industry,” it wrote on Facebook.
The alleged drains on beverage-alcohol in recent years have been well-documented: health and wellness, legal cannabis, consumers’ propensity for the couch instead of the bar, Generation’s Z disinterest, GLP-1 drugs. But one other driver – consumers’ perceived value for price – may not be mentioned as much as the others, and suppliers can learn from… Read more »
Trends worsened through mid-April for the majority of the 25 largest beer category vendors at off-premise retailers, according to market research firm Circana. Total beer recorded dollar sales gains of 0.9%, while volume, measured in case sales, declined 0.7%, year-to-date (YTD) through April 19 at multi-outlet grocery, mass retail and convenience stores (MULO+C). In the last four weeks (L4W), those metrics decelerated to +0.1% in dollar sales and -1.4% in volume.
Maine Beer Co. is dining out on lunch. Not the meal, but its flagship IPA (7% ABV), which isn’t named for an eating occasion at all, but rather a whale spotted off the Maine coast in 1982. Her dorsal fin was missing a chunk, which had ostensibly become lunch for a shark.
Anheuser-Busch InBev’s (A-B) Michelob Ultra was Numero Uno on Cinco de Mayo, according to the latest report from on-premise insights firm BeerBoard.
The convenience channel remained a lone bright spot for craft in the latest monthly report from market research firm Circana. Year-to-date (YTD) through April 19, craft dollar sales at c-stores increased 3.2%, while volume, measured in case sales, increased 0.9%.
Anheuser-Busch InBev (A-B) outperformed the U.S. beer industry in the first quarter of 2026, the company reported Tuesday. In the U.S., A-B’s Q1 depletions (sales to retailers) increased 0.3% year-over-year (YoY), which the company credited to “beer and beyond beer share gains and an improved industry.” Shipments (sales to wholesalers) declined 3.2%.
Beverage-alcohol sales have entered a reset phase now that Easter no longer haunts the data, according to the latest weekly report from market research firm Circana. Total bev-alc dollar sales declined 0.5% year-over-year (YoY), to $1.386 billion, during the week ending April 26, according to Circana. Volume declined 1%.
The brewing floor of the house that Boom Sauce built is about to go quiet, as Evergreen Collective – the parent company of Lord Hobo and Lone Pine – prepares to shift production to Isle Brewers Guild (IBG) in Pawtucket, Rhode Island.
Margaritas and beer top the shopping lists of the majority (52%) of Cinco de Mayo celebrators, according to a survey conducted by consumer insights firm Numerator.
Molson Coors recorded single-digit volume declines during the first quarter of 2026, which also saw its net sales increase 2%, to $2.351 billion, the company reported Thursday morning.
Indianapolis-based Sun King Brewing has expanded its empire with the acquisition of Hotel Tango Whiskey’s brand assets, the brewery announced this week.
