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.
After 35 years in business in downtown San Diego, Karl Strauss Brewing finally owns the keys to its original brewpub. The company closed on its brewery at Columbia and B streets on October 1, it announced yesterday.
Non-alcoholic offerings and variety packs were common threads in the 2024 brand plans across the Duvel USA family, which the company’s leadership presented to wholesalers via livestream Thursday. In a very meta pre-recorded video, EVP of sales and marketing Bobby Dykstra hosted a TV watch party for Duvel USA’s leadership team, which consisted of brand… Read more »
Non-alcoholic (NA) craft maker RationAle Brewing has added 70,000 barrels of production capacity via a yet-to-be-named new strategic partnership. The San Diego-based brewery also unveiled refreshed branding and packaging.
Four years after debuting the revitalization plan that helped put it on its current path, Molson Coors rolled out a new acceleration plan to continue its growth during a strategy day for investors on Tuesday. Thanks to “substantially improved financial flexibility,” Molson Coors will enact a $2 billion share buyback program over the next five years, chief financial officer Tracey Joubert said in a press release.
Nationwide, sales of distributed draft beer have stalled at the same levels reached in 2021, as the on-premise reopened following COVID-19 pandemic-driven closures.
At-the-brewery sales from January to May 2023 increased +2.6% compared to the same period in 2022, according to Arryved POS data parsed by Brewers Association (BA) chief economist Bart Watson in a recent blog post. However, sales increased at about half the rate of inflation, which the U.S. Bureau of Labor Statistics (BLS) tracked at… Read more »
Big Grove Brewing is about to get a little bigger. The Iowa City, Iowa-based craft brewery announced it has broken ground on an expansion project that will increase its capacity by 50% next year.
One-third of the top 30 craft brands recorded gains in both dollar sales and volume in Circana-tracked multi-outlet grocery and convenience stores in the 12-week period ending September 10, which includes the bulk of the summer selling season.
Cape May Brewing, New Jersey’s largest regional craft brewer by volume, will sell its brand rights and wind down operations of Cape Beverage, its distribution arm, the company announced today.
The Brewers Association’s Great American Beer Festival (GABF) kicks off for its 41st edition tonight in Denver at the Colorado Convention Center. For the first time, fest goers will be able to sample cider and hard seltzer along with a dizzying array of craft beer from brewers across the country.
Barry Andrews, founder of Texas-based Andrews Distributing, died at 77 yesterday, the Molson Coors-aligned distributor announced.
Seven new recipients have joined the ranks of scholarship winners from the Michael James Jackson Foundation for Brewing and Distilling (MJF), an organization Brooklyn Brewery brewmaster Garrett Oliver founded in 2020 to further the careers of Black, Indigenous and people of color in the brewing and distilling industries.
E-commerce delivery platform DoorDash and discount grocery chain ALDI have expanded their partnership to include beverage-alcohol delivery in 21 states, the companies announced today.
A bill to grant the U.S. Postal Service (USPS) alcohol shipping privileges has once again returned to the U.S. House of Representatives.
