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.
Nick Fink’s appointment Thursday as Constellation Brands’ CEO-in-waiting sparked takes from Wall Street analysts on what the transition means for the future of the Mexican beer importer.
Heineken is expanding its non-alcoholic (NA) beer line with two new Heineken 0.0 flavors: Cold Pressed Lime and Nectarine Juniper. The first flavor varieties for the NA beer brand will launch next month in the U.S., Heineken USA CEO Maggie Timoney shared last week.
Heineken N.V. will slash around 7% of its 87,000-person global workforce over the next two years, the company announced Wednesday during its full-year 2025 earnings report.
Super Bowl Sunday was a let down for more than just Patriots fans. BeerBoard tracked bars and restaurants saw year-over-year (YoY) declines in both draft beer volume (-6%) and package volumes (-6.2%), the tech and insights firm shared in its “2026 Big Game On-Premise Report.”
Boston Beer Company CMO Lesya Lysyj will step down from her role, effective March 6, according to an 8-K filing with the U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission.
On a night when 23% of the Super Bowl ads promoted AI, Americana and beer came out on top in USA Today’s Ad Meter rankings.
Creature Comforts co-founder Chris Herron quietly assumed the CEO role of intoxicating hemp beverage brand Climbing Kites a year after joining the company, the company shared last week. Herron’s promotion comes as Climbing Kites prepares to expand its beverage offerings in line with product trends across bev-alc.
A pair of family-operated blue/gold network North Carolina distributors are merging to form United Carolina Beverages.
Ball Corporation’s North American can supply is essentially sold out in 2026, new CEO Ron Lewis shared during the company’s full-year and Q4 earnings call Tuesday.
Garage Beer is getting in the big game. The Kelce-brothers-backed lager brand has made a regional Super Bowl LX ad buy in Philadelphia with a spot that pokes the big game’s most prominent beer advertiser, Anheuser-Busch InBev’s Budweiser.
This March, Owl’s Brew will launch Spiked Pop (4.8% ABV), a new flavored malt beverage (FMB) line into the re-emerging hard soda market.
Pieces of Rogue Ales & Spirits’ business will be sold during an estate auction on March 7, according to a filing in the U.S. Bankruptcy Court for the District of Oregon.
Point Blank Distributing will lay off 177 employees once the sale of the Oregon-based distributor to Columbia Distributing is completed in late March, according to a Worker Adjustment and Retraining Notification (WARN) Act filing made Thursday with the state.
Modern Times Beer and Ashland Hard Seltzer parent company Wings & Arrow has named Wes Van De Vort as CEO.
