Zoe Licata joined Brewbound in 2021 after several years of freelance reporting and documentary work. She’s a Massachusetts native, guinea pig for bev-alc innovation and savant in Gen Z culture.
Fiscal year 2025 (FY25) marked Boston Beer Company’s fourth consecutive year of shipments (sales to wholesalers) and depletions (sales to retailers) declines. But leadership’s remarks during Tuesday’s earnings call with investors and analysts were anything but negative.
Boston Beer Company has closed out another year in a state of contraction, according to fiscal year 2025 (FY25) data shared today by the company.
Consumers were in the mood to celebrate love – or rather, to celebrate bev-alc – this Valentine’s Day.
Hawaii lawmakers are considering a bill that would charge a liquor tax based on ABV rather than bev-alc category.
Continued draft declines dragged down bev-alc’s on-premise performance in 2025, according to tech and insights firm BeerBoard’s “2025 Year in Review” on-premise report released this month.
Longmont’s Bootstrap Brewing is the latest Colorado brewery to join Left Hand Collective, a craft brewing “alliance” formed last year with the merger of Left Hand Brewing and Dry Dock Brewing.
In 2025, Jiant told Brewbound that it wanted to be hard tea’s Olipop – a flavor-forward, ingredient-focused functional brand that connected with new and lapsed drinkers in the category.
Super Bowl LX bev-alc sales failed to surpass 2025 levels, but the trends aren’t as bad as they may seem on the surface, Circana EVP of BevAl Scott Scanlon reported with the latest off-premise scans.
The latest joining of craft brewing forces occurred in Bend, Oregon last week, with the creation of the Oregon Beverage Collective (OBC).
Price hikes for beverage-alcohol continue to be a tale of diverging trajectories through the start of 2026.
Constellation Brands CEO Bill Newlands will step down from the top spot at the bev-alc giant this April, the company announced today.
The majority of consumers who went into 2026 with plans to participate in Dry January stayed committed to abstaining from alcohol through the end of the month, according to survey results from market research firm NIQ.
Bev-alc sales remained slightly positive through the end of January in NIQ-tracked off-premise channels (xAOC + convenience + liquor open state), the market research firm reported this week.
The beverage-alcohol landscape has “radically” changed over the last decade, but small and independent producers – both in beer and hard cider – are primed to take advantage, Brewers Association (BA) president and CEO Bart Watson shared at CiderCon last week in Providence, Rhode Island.
