Stone Brewing Company has filed a motion to recoup attorneys’ fees after winning a $56 million judgment against Molson Coors for trademark infringement, according to court documents filed earlier this week.

After a state court largely rejected its claims earlier this year, Seismic Brewing Company has now filed a federal antitrust lawsuit against DBI Beverage, Reyes Holdings and Reyes subsidiary Harbor Distributing, alleging the beer distributor attempted to maintain a monopoly of California’s beer distribution market.

Off-premise sales of craft beer are off to a rough start in 2022. Year-to-date through April 2 of 2022, craft dollar sales declines have accelerated to nearly -10% ( $1.24 billion in overall sales) compared to the -6% decline in calendar year 2021, according to Bump Williams Consulting, which shared the latest NielsenIQ (total U.S. — XAOC + Liquor plus Convenience) scan data.

Beer Institute president and CEO Jim McGreevy is departing the trade association in early May after eight years to take on a yet-to-be revealed role outside of the beverage-alcohol industry.

A week after the 2022 edition of WWE’s WrestleMania, El Segundo Brewing Company is still feeling the aftershocks of “Stone Cold” Steve Austin crushing Broken Skull American Lagers throughout his first wrestling match in 19 years with a streaming audience in the millions watching.

Molson Coors’ craft beer division leader, Paul Verdu, has exited the company, president of emerging growth Pete Marino announced in a company email yesterday. Verdu’s last day at Molson Coors was Monday.

The Reyes Beer Division is adding to its California map with the planned acquisition of Columbia Distributing’s business in Northern California, the companies announced this evening.

Modern Times Beer’s bank has “commenced litigation” that is expected to “result in a court-ordered receivership sale” of the San Diego-headquartered craft brewery, according to a blog post on Modern Times’ website.

Stone Brewing Company has filed its first post-trial motion seeking a permanent injunction to prevent Molson Coors from “ongoing infringement of the Stone trademark” in the wake of its $56 million jury award following last month’s trademark infringement trial.

2022 will be a “make or break year for a number” of craft brewers, Brewers Association chief economist Bart Watson shared during a press conference Tuesday to discuss the 2021 production numbers and top 50 breweries list.

The Brewers Association (BA) also released its 2021 rankings of the top 50 craft breweries by sales volume, in addition to sharing that craft brewer volumes increased by +8% last year.

A year after recording the first production decline of the modern era, U.S. craft brewers were back in black in 2021. The Brewers Association shared that production at U.S. craft brewers who meet its craft brewer definition collectively increased production +8%, to an estimated 24.8 million barrels of beer in 2021.

The Sands family, the largest shareholder of Constellation Brands stock, has proposed declassifying the company’s common stock and transitioning to a single-class common stock structure.

San Diego-headquartered JuneShine released its first commercial campaign today, promoting its recently launched ready-to-drink, spirits-based canned cocktails with the tagline of “Dodge the Sugar.” Beer buyers’ behavior has “continued to revert to pre-pandemic trends” for the third consecutive month, according to the National Beer Wholesalers Association’s (NBWA) March Beer Purchasers’ Index (BPI).