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.
Sierra Nevada leadership shared highlights of its year so far, revealed its sales and marketing strategy for 2024 and provided an update on its Can Do Innovation Center during last week’s meeting with wholesalers.
Sierra Nevada shared its 2024 brand plans today with wholesalers. The slate of new products will include new hazy and imperial IPAs, non-alcoholic beers and hop waters, and offerings for day drinking occasions.
Groups of potential buyers have begun reaching out to Craft Beer Cellar founders Kate Baker and Suzanne Schalow about purchasing their Belmont, Massachusetts-based bottle shop and Trinktisch European Food Hall since they announced plans to sell last week.
The next Dunkin’ alcoholic beverage releases from Harpoon parent company Mass Bay Brewing will be Dunkin’ Spiked Iced Coffee and Dunkin’ Spiked Iced Tea.
Catawba Brewing Company’s locations in Charlotte and Wilmington, North Carolina have been closed by Made By the Water, the portfolio company of family office Wiregrass Equity Partners, according to reports.
The latest Gallup poll of U.S. drinkers found that consumption habits have remained “relatively stable,” the firm reported Monday. Gallup’s “Consumption Habits” poll, conducted from July 3-27, found that 62% of Americans say they drink alcoholic beverages, hovering around the 63% average the poll has returned since 1939.
Tilray Brands announced an $85 million all cash deal to acquire eight craft beverage brands from Anheuser-Busch earlier this week. Tilray CEO and chairman Irwin D. Simon spoke with Brewbound about the transaction on Tuesday. Here’s our Q&A.
Dharma Tamm is stepping down as president of Rogue Ales & Spirits after four years at the helm of the Newport, Oregon-headquartered craft brewery. Steven Garrett, Rogue’s VP of marketing and creative, will assume the president role beginning October 1.
The trickle down from Bud Light’s sales declines are beginning to materialize in its supply chain partners’ earnings. On the same day that Anheuser-Busch InBev reported double-digit declines in revenue, shipments and depletions in the U.S., Ball Corporation shared that its second quarter volumes declined -8.5% in North and Central America, which the company attributed to “customer mix, particularly in the domestic mass beer category.”
The fallout of Bud Light’s sales declines has led to several gains for Molson Coors in the second quarter with potentially more on the horizon. During Tuesday’s call with investors and analysts, Molson Coors president and CEO Gavin Hattersley noted that several retailers have moved up the timing of their shelf resets from the spring to the fall.
Partake Brewing has promoted chief commercial officer Evan Cohen as president to lead the Toronto-headquartered non-alcoholic beer (NA) maker through its next growth phase.
Molson Coors reported Q2 earnings results today, reporting its best quarterly brand volume trends in the U.S. since 2008, with Coors Lite, Miller Lite and Coors Banquet each recording double-digit growth.