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.
Founders Brewing Company is rolling into its new three-year business cycle with upgrades to its facilities, plans to invest in its core brands and efforts to build future offerings in and outside of traditional beer. Mahou is investing around $3 million to upgrade its Grand Rapids, Michigan-based brewery.
If you’re looking for a bright spot heading into the July 4 holiday weekend, Circana EVP Bev-Al Scott Scanlon has you covered. In the latest weekly off-premise scans recap from the market research firm, Scanlon wrote that we’re “starting to see pockets of growth developing.”
Non-alcoholic beer, Italian imports and fruit-forward offerings are just a few of the summer trends popping in Total Wine & More and Whole Foods Market stores. Total Wine’s Adrea Starr and Whole Foods Market’s Mary Guiver offered insights into what they’re seeing as summer sets in.
Breakthru activates ‘contingency plans’ amid Florida driver strike; O&W gets Yuengling in SE Michigan; AleSmith enters Georgia; and Dad Strength featured on CBS Mornings.
FIFCO USA has named Gustavo Cornejo its new CEO, effective immediately. Cornejo succeeds Piotr Jurjewicz, who had led the company’s U.S. operations since 2022.
Hand Family Companies’ (HFC) Sunset Distribution subsidiary is adding another piece to its growing craft footprint in California with the acquisition of Scout Distribution in Los Angeles.
Teamsters’ strike at Breakthru spreads to six more states; Voodoo Ranger and Malört collab on Roulette IPA release; Intuition Ale Works available for turnkey sale; G4 Kegs pauses imports; consumer spending dips in May; and Constellation data shows Hispanic consumers’ pullback from dining out.
Mark Anthony Brands (MAB) is rolling into summer with a focused plan behind White Claw, which boasts an even more dominant position in the hard seltzer segment. Now in its ninth year, White Claw now holds around 70% share of hard seltzer dollar sales, and a 50% share of “total beverage-alcohol seltzer,” which is primarily White Claw and Gallo’s High Noon, MAB president David Barnett said.
Tilray Brands’ cost-cutting measures continue with closure of the Redhook Brewlab in Seattle’s Capitol Hill neighborhood. Chief corporate affairs officer Berrin Noorta told Brewbound that “Redhook Brewlab is now closed as we look for a new location.”
Tilray Brands beverage division president Ty Gilmore is departing from the company, in one of several leadership changes, the craft beverage and cannabis firm announced today. Tilray chief growth officer Prinz Pinakatt is taking over the beverage division, effective immediately.
The Dead are helping raise Dogfish Head’s trends. The Boston Beer Company-owned, Milton, Delaware-based craft brewery’s launch of Grateful Dead Juicy Pale Ale earlier this year has returned the brand to growth for the first time since 2019, co-founder Sam Calagione told Brewbound last week.