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.
Anheuser-Busch InBev’s U.S. shipments and depletions both declined -4.7% in the third quarter of 2021, the company reported today. The declines were “driven by a lower industry, segment shift and supply chain disruptions resulting in out-of-stocks,” the world’s largest beer manufacturer wrote in a press release detailing its third quarter earnings.
A Pennsylvania bill that would require beer sold at in-state taprooms that are owned by out-of-state companies to either be brewed onsite or sold through a Pennsylvania wholesaler is one step closer to becoming law.
Anchor Brewing and the city of San Francisco have partnered on a water reuse project that will allow the brewery to both save water and recycle 20 million gallons of it each year.
Draft beer sales volume declined -6.6% nationwide during the weekend of October 21-24, compared to the weekend of October 7-10, according to BeerBoard, which tracks draft sales at on-premise retailers across the country. Of the 10 key markets BeerBoard highlights in its reports, South Carolina (-11.1%) saw the steepest decline in volume, followed by Texas (-10.5%), Florida (-8.3%), Illinois (-7.7%), Minnesota (-7.3%), Nevada (-6.7%), and Georgia (-4.2%).
In an op-ed she wrote in support of paid family leave for small businesses, Switchyard Brewing Company co-founder Kristin Cummings wrote that the company has strived to “offer better benefits and a better work-life balance” to its workforce. Voting has started for the Brewers Association’s (BA) board of directors election and ends November 17.
As headwinds hit the hard seltzer segment, Boston Beer Company executives reiterated their confidence in Truly Hard Seltzer’s ability to perform during a conference call to discuss the company’s third quarter earnings with investors and analysts on Thursday evening.
Pandemic-driven declines and an inability to convert the space to include brewing capacity, food service and outdoor seating factored into Deschutes Brewery’s decision to shutter its Roanoke, Virginia-based tasting room later this year, executives explained yesterday.
Truly Hard Seltzer will say g’day to a new market in February 2022. Boston Beer Company will partner with the Campari Group to bring Truly to Australia next year, the company announced today.
Massachusetts lawmakers are considering doubling the commonwealth’s excise tax on beer, wine and spirits. The bill proposes increasing the state excise tax rate for malt beverages (including flavored malt beverages and sugar-based hard seltzers) from $3.30 per barrel to $6.60 per barrel.
The Reyes Beer Division will acquire “substantially all the assets” of Powers Distributing in Lake Orion, Michigan, the company announced today. The Powers deal will add about 5.7 million cases to Reyes’ business.
BrewDog USA, the Columbus, Ohio-headquartered offshoot of the Scottish craft beer maker, has added three new executives to its sales and marketing ranks, the company announced Monday. The company has tapped Marc Venegoni as vice president of U.S. sales, Greg Salzenstein as western U.S. sales director, and Erika Wojno as U.S. director of marketing.
Three quarters into 2021, craft beer dollar sales in off-premise retailers have declined -7.1% year-to-date through October 2 and that negative trend is mostly accelerating, according to a report from Bump Williams Consulting (BWC). Craft beer dollar sales declined -12.7% in Q2 and improved slightly to -12.5% in Q3, but there have been “no major improvements since cycling COVID,” BWC wrote
All of Firestone Walker’s brand platforms have new news in 2022, including new IPAs, more cans, fruited beers and even a hard seltzer.
Firestone Walker Brewing Company is sailing into 2022 “with the wind at our back,” co-founder David Walker said in an intro video to the company’s annual business plan presentation, streamed virtually to distributor and retailer partners late last month. Current projections place the Paso Robles, California-headquartered craft brewery finishing 2021 up about +20%, Walker said, despite the continued challenges of the pandemic.
