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.
President Donald Trump is now threatening to double tariffs on aluminum and steel imports from Canada, increasing them from 25% to 50%, according to his social media posts. The move is in retaliation for a 25% surcharge placed by Ontario on electricity to the U.S.
Dollar sales of craft beer declined -4.2%, to more than $596.2 million, year-to-date (YTD) through February 23 in off-premise retailers tracked by market research firm Circana.
Molson Coors will close the Blue Moon brewpub in Denver’s River North Arts District at the end of the month, Brewbound has confirmed.
Domestic beer shipments are off to a rough start in 2025. U.S. beer shipments declined -8.7% year-over-year (YoY) in January 2025, as brewers shipped 10.55 million barrels, according to estimates of domestic tax paid shipments from the Alcohol and Tobacco Tax and Trade Bureau (TTB), shared by the Beer Institute (BI). The decline amounted to more than 1 million fewer barrels being shipped YoY.
Boston Beer Company is set to roll out a pair of new beyond beer offerings this spring, as the company reshuffles its portfolio.
President Donald Trump launched a trade war today with the United States’ North American trade partners, Canada and Mexico, implementing 25% tariffs on goods imported from each country. Trump also doubled existing duties on goods from China to 20%.
Distributor sentiment cratered in February 2025, with the National Beer Wholesalers Association’s (NBWA) Beer Purchasers’ Index (BPI) survey recording a 14-point, year-over-year (YoY) decline to an index of 35.
Monster Beverage Company reported a $130.7 million impairment charge on its alcohol brands in Q4 2024, bringing its total write down on its bev-alc business over the last year to more than $138.7 million, the energy drink giant reported yesterday in its Q4 and full-year 2024 earnings report.
Sapporo Holdings has taken a more than $91.5 million (JPY 13.9 billion) impairment charge on the goodwill of its Stone Brewing business, which the Japanese brewing giant acquired nearly three years ago for $165 million.
Non-alcoholic (NA) beer claimed a record 4.2% share of beer category grocery sales during Dry January, according to an analysis by Bump Williams Consulting chief strategy officer Dan Wandel. NA beer recorded double-digit year-over-year (YoY) increases in dollar sales (+23.5%) and volume (+20.2%) in U.S. food stores tracked by market research firm NIQ for the four-week period ending February 1.
The Yuengling Company launched draft in Illinois on January 27, the eighth expansion state for the Pennsylvania brewery’s joint venture with Molson Coors.
Tilray Brands is moving large-scale production from Revolver Brewing’s facility in Granbury, Texas, to other facilities, the company confirmed in a statement to Brewbound. Revolver’s Texas location “will continue to operate, focusing on unique and innovative brews, and the taproom will remain open.”
Non-alcoholic beer maker Athletic Brewing Company has struck a multi-year sponsorship deal with Live Nation to make its beer available in 117 concert venues and at four major music festivals.
Total Wine & More shared its list of the top brands sold in its Kansas City and Philadelphia area stores for the Super Bowl. Home-market brand families – Boulevard in Kansas City and Surfside in Philly – topped the lists in their respective cities.
