Several beverage alcohol trade groups are speaking out against a bill that would grant the U.S. Postal Service the ability to ship beer, wine and spirits.

A new version of the Restaurants Act, which would provide $120 billion in grants to bars and restaurants, was introduced in both the U.S. Senate and House of Representatives on February 4. The bill now includes “brewpubs, tasting rooms, taprooms, and licensed facilities or premises of a beverage alcohol producer where the public may taste, sample, or purchase products,” the Brewers Association said.

On-premise beer sales during Super Bowl LV were as depressed as Kansas City Chiefs fans after their team’s loss to the Tampa Bay Buccaneers. Beer volumes declined 46% compared to Super Bowl LIV, according to BeerBoard, which tracks draft sales at bars and restaurants across the country. “This is on pace with the average decline… Read more »

American consumers spent $89 billion on beer, wine and spirits at off-premise retailers last year, marking a $13.5 billion increase over 2019 beverage alcohol sales, according to market research firm Nielsen IQ.

The Brewers Association (BA) is urging the Can Manufacturing Institute (CMI) to ensure that small and independent craft brewers have access to aluminum cans amid the years-long inventory crunch beverage producers are now facing. In a letter to the CMI, BA president and CEO Bob Pease painted a dire picture for the nation’s nearly 8,400 craft brewers. “These businesses will simply not survive that long without cans,” he wrote.

Off-premise beer category dollar sales increased 15.7% year-to-date through January 23, compared to the same period last year, market research firm NielsenIQ reported. For the four weeks ending January 23 (which includes December 28-31, 2020), off-premise dollars sales of the beer category — which includes core beer, flavored malt beverages, hard seltzers, ciders and malt liquor — increased 14.2%, indicating slight acceleration after January 1.

Oregon breweries looking to cash in on the $4.1 billion hard seltzer market need to consider the ingredients they choose to produce it, as the Oregon Liquor Control Commission’s (OLCC) classification of the bubbly beverage varies by base ingredients.

Ride-sharing tech behemoth Uber Technologies has struck a deal to acquire on-demand alcohol delivery marketplace Drizly for $1.1 billion in stock and cash, the companies announced today.

D.G. Yuengling & Son is attempting to relate to younger legal drinking age consumers with a new single-serve offering that will initially be sold in convenience stores. Raging Eagle Mango Beer lands in c-stores today.

San Francisco-based Anchor Brewing opted to give itself a makeover as a 125th birthday gift. Ballast Point has revealed new packaging art that has already begun rolling out to retailers. Granbury, Texas-based Revolver Brewing will roll out new artwork for its core offerings this spring. Anheuser-Busch InBev-owned Blue Point Brewing debuted a new logo and branding that will replace art that the Patchogue, New York-based craft brewery has been using for four years.

R.S. Lipman — the parent company of Nashville-based Hap & Harry’s Tennessee Beer, which also owns Vallejo, California-based Napa Smith Brewery and several wine, spirits and mixers brands — has acquired Little Harpeth Brewing and Turtle Anarchy Brewing in a deal that closed December 31.

A day after the resignations of two top Duvel Moortgat USA executives amid mounting accusations that management had turned a blind eye to instances of workplace harassment at Boulevard Brewing Company, John McDonald, the Kansas City craft brewery’s founder, has taken over as interim president.

The top executive of Duvel Moortgat’s U.S. operations resigned today amid a growing number of accusations that management ignored years of accusations of harassment and hostility toward female employees at Boulevard Brewing Company in Kansas City, Missouri.

A day after denying that a former employee was the subject of harassment and pregnancy discrimination, Boulevard Brewing has changed its stance, acknowleded that workplace harassment did occur and apologized. The company has also fired a company executive.