Amid murky times for THC beverages in its home state of Ohio, the state’s largest craft brewery, Rhinegeist, is wading into the intoxicating hemp beverage category with Fuzzy Bones.

Sapporo-Stone Brewing’s strategy for 2026 is to double the size of Sapporo Premium while tapping into pockets of growth for incremental gains, company leaders shared during a virtual distributor meeting last week.

Molson Coors Beverage Company will eliminate around 400 salaried positions across its Americas business unit by the end of December, the company announced today.

Duvel is aiming to be the top-supplier of Belgian imports, which would require “eclipsing a 27% share,” Duvel USA chief commercial officer Bobby Dykstra shared with distributors earlier this month.

Garage Beer’s Jason Kelce on beer’s social connection; Hemp Beverage Alliance leaders on bans, tax revenue; Boston Beer’s Social Pop debut.

Low-ABV IPA maker Dad Strength is poised to disrupt the beer category, according to recent investor and Shark Tank star Robert Herjavec.

Outgoing National Beer Wholesalers Association chair Rebecca Maisel stressed the importance of distributor independence from “undue supplier influence” in making business decisions, during her opening remarks at the trade group’s 88th annual convention in Las Vegas.

THC seltzers, local sports partnerships and growing Boulevard’s new No. 1 brand are among the highlights of Duvel USA’s 2026 distribution convention, featuring skits mimicking popular movies and TV shows. The big news coming out of the meeting is Boulevard’s addition of THC-infused seltzers under its Quirk line.

B3 Beverage Company is adding Heavy Seas Beer, Maryland’s biggest craft brewery, to its growing platform, the companies announced Thursday.

Tilray Brands’ 2026 first quarter – covering the all-important summer selling season – was “flat” due to the cannabis and craft beer platform’s Project 420 cost-savings initiative, Tilray chairman and CEO Irwin Simon shared Thursday during a call with investors and analysts.

Long-time Anheuser-Busch InBev sales leader Jake Kirsch will take over as president of its U.S. beyond beer business, effective January 1. Kirsch supplants Fabricio Zonzini, who has led the division since November 2019.

Beer is in the midst of “a fun crisis,” New Belgium Brewing CMO Rebecca Dye Yonushonis declared during the company’s distributor convention in Fort Collins last week.

A pair of Iowa craft breweries are formalizing their existing partnership. Waterloo-based SingleSpeed Brewing is acquiring the intellectual property of Coralville-based Backpocket Brewing and its sibling brand Peace Tree Brewing.

A key c-suite executive is departing Molson Coors as new president and CEO Rahul Goyal realigns the company’s leadership team and organizational structure, unwinding its Americas Commercial Organization.