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.
The makers of Shiner Bock believe they’ve developed an IPA-centric line capable of being a national contender with other legacy craft brewers such as New Belgium (Voodoo Ranger) and Sierra Nevada (Hazy Little Thing).
Avery Brewing CEO Elton Andres Knight has been named CEO of Founders Brewing Co., the Grand Rapids, Michigan-headquartered sister brewery of Boulder, Colorado-based Avery.
The world’s largest can manufacturer, Ball Corporation, reported can volumes increased 7% in 2021 as demand for aluminum packaging continues to outstrip supply.
The fourth flavor of Boston Beer Company and PepsiCo Beverages’ Hard MTN Dew will be Baja Blast.
Duvel USA is making changes to its organizational structure and sales regions in an effort to “improve focus and execution,” Duvel USA EVP of sales and marketing Bobby Dykstra wrote today in a note to the company’s wholesalers.
U.S. brewers shipped 169,154,000 barrels of beer in 2021, a 0.1% decline (-233,691 barrels) compared to 2020, according to the Beer Institute (BI), citing domestic tax paid estimates from the Alcohol and Tobacco Trade Bureau.
Boston Beer Company’s “Your Cousin From Boston” ad campaign is entering the Super Bowl LVI ad conversation once again with a regional ad buy in 13 markets.
Constellation Brands announced today a pair of executive leadership moves within its beer division. Jim Sabia has been promoted to EVP and president of Constellation’s beer division, effective immediately.
Days after the BBC reported that Scottish beer maker BrewDog allegedly submitted false information to the U.S. Department of Treasury’s Alcohol and Tobacco Tax and Trade Bureau, keg labels for the two beers in question were surrendered. Meanwhile, the number of convenience stores operating in the U.S. stood at 148,026 in 2021, a 1.5% decline compared to the 150,274 stores in operation in 2020, according to NACS and NielsenIQ.
The challenges with procuring aluminum cans aren’t likely to let up for several years, and increased input costs are likely to bleed down to drinkers, according to David Racino, co-founder and CEO of Austin, Texas-based can supplier American Canning.
Founders Brewing Company co-founder and CEO Mike Stevens will move into the role of board member, effective February 1, as the Grand Rapids, Michigan-headquartered craft brewery searches for a new CEO, the company announced today.
The Reyes Beer Division is picking up one of the most popular brands in San Diego. Reyes subsidiaries Harbor Distributing and Crest Beverage will take over distribution of around 310,000 cases of AleSmith Brewing Company products in Southern California from Stone Distributing, starting at the end of the month.
Deschutes Brewery has named Peter Skrbek as its new CEO, effective immediately. Skrbek, who served as chief financial officer, assumes the post from Michael LaLonde, who took the role of president in 2011 and later added the title of CEO in 2017 of the Bend, Oregon, craft brewery — the 10th largest by volume, according to the Brewers Association.
The federal Alcohol and Tobacco Tax and Trade Bureau (TTB) has accepted offers in compromises from a pair of Midwestern beer wholesalers for entering into sponsorship agreements that “allegedly resulted in the unlawful exclusion of their competitors’ products,” the agency announced today.
