Bev-alc remained in the red in the latest week (data ending October 12) with dollar sales down 3.8% year-over-year (YoY) and 1% week-over-week (WoW) in Circana-tracked off-premise channels, according to the latest weekly report from the market research firm’s EVP of BevAl, Scott Scanlon.

If the beer industry had a dollar for every time someone said “we’re controlling what we can control,” the category would possibly be in the black this year.

Constellation Brands’ recent volume woes are only temporary, beer division president and EVP Jim Sabia assured distributors this week during the National Beer Wholesalers Association’s (NBWA) Annual Convention in Las Vegas.

More than five years beyond the start of the COVID-19 pandemic, the U.S. continues to battle a “loneliness epidemic,” where consumers feel isolated, concerned and alone in a world of economic uncertainty, rising costs, political turmoil and more online socialization than in-person interactions.

Bev-alc off-premise sales were up slightly week-over-week (WoW) in the latest report from market research firm Circana. However, those gains were unable to stop an acceleration in year-over-year (YoY) declines, as even the “patches of green shoots” previously seen in the industry “have burnt up in the sea of red this week across all categories,” according to Circana EVP of BevAl, Scott Scanlon.

To open a conversation about craft beer in 2025, Boston Beer founder and CEO Jim Koch and Dogfish Head co-founder Sam Calagione went back about 15 years to revisit a beer they collaborated on nearly a decade before they joined their companies.

The Brewers Association (BA) awarded 347 medals to 273 breweries and cideries Saturday during the trade group’s Great American Beer Festival (GABF) in Denver.

When nearly everyone is in decline, success has to be measured by whomever has the smallest losses. And those winners within beverage-alcohol are the companies with the most focused portfolios, according to Bump Williams Consulting’s (BWC) latest monthly report.

Bev-alc’s new pattern of year-over-year (YoY) off-premise declines continued in the latest week (data ending September 28), according to market research firm Circana and EVP of BevAl Scott Scanlon.

Constellation Brands has now revealed the Q2 trends that drove the company to lower its full-year guidance last month, and the numbers stand in stark contrast to a year ago.

There continues to be “little movement” in wholesalers’ (lack of) optimism for the beer category, according to the September Beer Purchasers’ Index (BPI) from the National Beer Wholesalers Association (NBWA).

Gen X consumers, born between 1965 and 1981, now account for the largest percentage of consumer packaged goods (CPG), general merchandise and quick-service restaurant (QSR) sales, usurping Boomers for the first time, according to a new report from consumer insights firm Numerator.

The Trump administration’s drive to narrow the scope of the Supplemental Nutrition Assistance Program (SNAP) may cost food retailers nearly $1.6 billion upfront and $759 million annually, according to a survey conducted by three grocery industry trade groups.

Consumers continue to flock to the on-premise, despite economic uncertainty, according to the latest report from CGA, the on-premise arm of market research firm NIQ.