Justin Kendall

Justin Kendall

Editor, Brewbound

Justin Kendall provides daily coverage of the beer industry on Brewbound.com, conducts live-streamed interviews during Brewbound’s events and co-produces the Brewbound podcast. Kendall is a nearly 20-year career journalist who led alt-weekly newspapers in Kansas City, Missouri, and Des Moines, Iowa.

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Beer Girl’s Shark Tank Pitch Ends With Investment From Uncle Nearest’s Fawn Weaver

Beer Girl’s Shark Tank Pitch Ends With Investment From Uncle Nearest’s Fawn Weaver

Another low ABV beer with an explicit target audience made an appearance on ABC’s Shark Tank and came out with an investment. Potentially. Beer Girl founder Caroline Renezeder Foulk pitched the three-year-old lager brand to a panel of investment “sharks,” and caught the attention of Uncle Nearest founder Fawn Weaver.

A-B Strikes Deal for Advance Beverage in California; Southern Glazer’s to Add Clare Rose on Long Island

A-B Strikes Deal for Advance Beverage in California; Southern Glazer’s to Add Clare Rose on Long Island

A pair of big red network distribution deals were announced in the last 24 hours. Anheuser-Busch InBev has agreed to purchase the distribution rights of its brands, as well as “certain craft/NA brands,” from Advance Beverage Company in Bakersfield, California. Meanwhile, Southern Glazer’s Wine & Spirits inked a deal for independent A-B distributor Clare Rose on Long Island.

January US Beer Shipments -9.4%; Imports -17%; State STWs -11%

January US Beer Shipments -9.4%; Imports -17%; State STWs -11%

U.S. brewers shipped nearly 1 million fewer barrels year-over-year (YoY) in January 2026, according to domestic tax paid shipment data shared by the Beer Institute. Shipments topped 9.6 million barrels in January, a 995,677-barrel decline from the nearly 10.6 million barrels shipped at the start of 2025.

Pabst, Brown-Forman FMB Partnership to End in July

Pabst, Brown-Forman FMB Partnership to End in July

Brown-Forman and Pabst Brewing Company are ending their production, sales, marketing and distribution partnership for FMBs such as the whiskey brand’s Jack Daniel’s Country Cocktails after five years.