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.
Sales of Boulevard Brewing’s canned beer have grown considerably since the aluminum packages were first introduced in 2014, and now the Kansas City-based company is making a multi-million dollar bet that more sales are on the way.
More than 4,000 people converged on Washington, D.C., this past weekend for the Brewers Association’s annual craft beer and food pairing event, Savor. Brewbound caught up with several breweries over the weekend to get the scoop the latest trends, distribution and packaging updates, and what to expect for the remainder of 2017.
In this week’s Last Call: Multiple U.S. breweries are expanding and the original Most Interesting Man in the World talks meeting President Obama.
Minnesota’s Surly Brewing Company showed the most sales growth among the top 50 domestic craft brewing companies last year, selling about 76,550 barrels of beer, according to data released last week by industry trade organization the Brewers Association.
In the latest Legislative Update: Virginia wants Maryland breweries to move in; Indiana forms a task force to review liquor laws; Oklahoma considers Sunday sales; and much more.
Canadian-headquartered Red Truck Beer Company has reached an agreement to acquire Fort Collins Brewery’s (FCB) building and assets from owners Tom, Jan and Tina Peters. Terms of the deal were not disclosed.
In this week’s edition of Last Call: North Carolina brewers claim Anheuser-Busch receives favoritism from the state’s wholesalers; Fiddlehead opens a new production facility; the Brewers Association announces committee assignments; and more.
Here’s a sobering statistic: One in six neighborhood bars have closed since 2004, according to a new Nielsen CGA report.
In this week’s Press Clips: Petaluma Hills brewing to close in June; GoodLife Brewing co-founder Curt Plants dies at 33; Clare Rose and Shore Point union workers still on strike.
The U.S. beer industry is responsible for creating more than 2.23 million jobs that paid a combined $103.3 billion in wages and benefits, according to the findings of a joint study commissioned by the Beer Institute and the National Beer Wholesalers Association (NBWA).
In a clear win for beer distributors, the Texas Senate yesterday voted 19-10 in favor of a bill that, if signed by Governor Greg Abbott, would require breweries making more than 225,000 barrels annually to repurchase their own product from wholesalers in order to continue selling beer for on-premise consumption at their taprooms.
Production at 25 of the top 50 Brewers Association-defined craft breweries didn’t grow last year, according new data released today by the trade organization.
In this week’s edition of Last Call: Minnesota’s Summit Brewing has announced plans to pull its beer out of six states: Pennsylvania, Ohio, Illinois, Indiana, Nebraska, and Michigan. Also, Golden Road Brewing co-founder Meg Gill defends her company’s planned beer garden in Oakland, Caif.
A Massachusetts state task force dealing with examining the state’s decades-old liquor laws met on Thursday — and beer distribution was on the agenda.
