Cycling a rough first quarter of 2022 when the company’s shipments and depletions declined -25.1% and -7, respectively, Boston Beer Company reported a bumpy first quarter of 2023, as both depletions and shipments declined and the company recorded a $9 million net loss.

Rhinegeist Brewery has named Adam Bankovich interim CEO, the Cincinnati-headquartered craft brewery shared with Brewbound. Bankovich was hired as Rhinegeist’s chief commercial officer (CCO) in October 2022, joining the Ohio craft brewery after a nine-year career at Stone Brewing, where he last served as VP of sales.

San Juan Seltzer is betting on a new line of imperial hard seltzers called Doubles being “a game changer” for the nearly 5-year-old company, CEO and president Ron Lloyd told Brewbound.

Two of Anheuser-Busch InBev’s top marketing executives are on leave amid conservatives’ call to boycott the Bud Light brand for a marketing activation with social media influencer and transwoman Dylan Mulvaney during March Madness.

NoFo Brew Co. has reached a deal to acquire the land, building and assets of fellow Georgia craft brewery Tantrum Brewing.

We don’t have the production numbers just yet, but the rankings are in for the Brewers Association’s (BA) annual list of the top 50 craft breweries by volume in 2022. This isn’t a best of list but a ranking of output for the breweries that meet the BA’s small and independent craft brewery definition.

Flavor is at the heart of discount supermarket chain Aldi’s summer strategy. As part of Alid’s seasonal reset, the company will add 18 private label alcoholic beverages (11 new and seven repeat items) all priced under $14 to its shelves starting Friday, April 21. Those products range from hard tea to hard seltzer, cocktail-inspired pouches to freeze pops, and beer to wine.

The Brewers Association (BA) has shared its rankings of the top 50 independent craft breweries by sales volume, with U.S. craft brewers under the trade group’s small and independent brewery definition collectively producing 24.3 million barrels of beer and gaining 0.1% share of the overall beer market by volume to claim 13.2% share.

Sales data is out now showing the first week of the conservative-led boycott of Anheuser-Busch InBev’s Bud Light brand following the world’s largest beer maker’s March Madness activation with Dylan Mulvaney, an influencer who documents her life as a transgender woman.

This week was a bit of deja vu, from non-alcoholic beer and higher ABV products aimed at convenience stores, to building out brand families and making partnerships, to filling out distribution maps.

Boston Beer Company is making a convenience play in three markets with the launch of a new high-ABV, single-serve brand: Slingers Signature Cocktails.

Deschutes Brewery is moving production of its non-alcoholic beer in-house with an investment in Sustainable Beverage Technologies’ BrewVo equipment at its production facility in Bend, Oregon.

Lawson’s Finest Liquids is continuing to build its Sunshine family. The latest addition to the family is Hazy Rays IPA, a 5.3% New England IPA, available starting this week in 16 oz. can 4-packs, 12 oz. can 12-packs and on draft across the company’s nine-state footprint.

As the craft beer segment matures and sales slow, a lot of brewers are trying to figure out the path forward. That seemed to be the unofficial theme of the week.