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.
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.
No one was injured in an explosion and fire at Victory Brewing’s brewpub and taproom in Kennett Square, Pennsylvania, on Monday evening. “Our taproom was closed for business on Monday, so no customers or team members were in the building at the time of the incident,” Artisanal Beverage Ventures chief marketing officer Derek Detenber told… Read more »
After a former employee shared her story of pregnancy discrimination and examples of a hostile work environment, Boulevard Brewing Company issued a statement today saying the Kansas City, Missouri-based craft brewery takes the accusations “very seriously” but an investigation of the allegations a year ago found “that there was no harrassment or discrimination.”
Greg Avola, the co-founder of beer review mobile app Untappd, announced his departure from a day-to-day role at the company last week in a series of tweets. Avola cited the desire to focus on his “health, happiness and family” as his reason for stepping down, which he elaborated on in a post on his personal website. His last day as a full-time employee was January 20. He will remain a part owner of Next Glass.
The number of legal drinking age adults who have visited on-premise establishments has remained stagnant at around 50% for several months, according to a report from Nielsen CGA, the on-premise arm of market research firm NielsenIQ. In the two weeks leading up to the January 8-10 survey period, 50% of respondents said they had gone out for a meal, which was the same number as those who had been out to a restaurant in the two weeks prior.
Drinking occasions remain less popular — 17% of respondents had gone out for a drink in the two weeks before the January 8-10 survey, an increase of 1% from the previous survey. Only 41% of respondents said they planned to visit a restaurant in the two weeks following the survey, but 18% said they would go out for a drink.
Nearly two months after the close of its sale to Canadian cannabis company Aphria, Atlanta-headquartered SweetWater Brewing said it will expand distribution to Colorado, the first state to legalize cannabis for recreational use.
