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.
This year’s Thanksgiving Eve (November 22) was a bit lackluster for beer, with Drinksgiving/Blackout Wednesday draft volume down -2.5% year-over-year (YoY), according to BeerBoard, an on-premise market research firm.
Many craft breweries have made distribution and packaging changes in the last few years to combat changing off-premise trends and consumer purchasing habits. But transitions don’t always mean immediate positive changes, as Belching Beaver can attest.
One shareholder of Massachusetts-based Tree House Brewing has filed a lawsuit against co-owners Nate Lanier and Damien Goudreau, claiming they have misused company funds, neglected to offer shareholder dividends, and withheld tax documentation. Eric Granger, a Monson, Massachusetts resident who owns 2% of Tree House’s shares, filed the lawsuit against Lanier, Goudreau and Tree House… Read more »
The Gambrinus Company is attempting to carve out its own slice of the growing non-alcoholic (NA) beer pie with a line of NA Shiner offerings.
Nearly half of consumers (47%) plan to visit the on-premise to celebrate Thanksgiving this year, according to CGA, an NIQ-powered on-premise market research firm, in its latest On-Premise Impact Report.
New Belgium’s Voodoo Ranger Imperial IPA (Voodoo Ranger) is now the No. 1 craft beer by dollar sales in the convenience channel, passing Molson Coors’ Blue Moon Belgian White (Blue Moon), according to data firm Circana’s monthly beer report. Voodoo Ranger has increased c-store dollar sales +14.8%, to more than $81 million year-to-date (YTD), ending November 5. The IPA now has 5.84% share of total craft beer dollar sales in the channel.
Anchor SF Cooperative (ASFC), a group of former Anchor Brewing workers, has launched a WeFunder campaign to help its efforts to “carry on the legacy of Anchor Brewing.”
Anheuser-Busch InBev’s (A-B) U.S. chief marketing officer Benoit Garbe will resign at the end of the year, the company announced today. Garbe is departing to “embark on a new chapter in his career,” according to an A-B spokesperson.
After a seven-month slowdown, beer inflation “has reemerged in the past three months,” Brewers Association (BA) chief economist Bart Watson wrote on Twitter/X, following the release of the October Consumer Price Index (CPI) from the U.S. Bureau of Labor Statistics (BLS).
Boston Beer Company has the No. 1 share of the hard tea segment with Twisted Tea, the more than 20-year-old flavored malt beverage brand that continues to record exponential growth in scans.
On-premise sales velocity slowed slightly in recent weeks, down -2% week-over-week (WoW) in the latest week (ending November 5) and -3% in the previous week, according to CGA, a NIQ-powered on-premise market research firm, in the latest On-Premise Impact Report.
The Brewers Association (BA) published its first Salary and Benefits Benchmarking Report since 2020. Sixty breweries responded with information about 80 common industry jobs, representing 7,396 employees.
Domestic tax paid shipments from U.S. breweries have now declined for seven months in a row, declining an estimated -7.4% (nearly 14.3 million barrels) in September versus September 2022, according to the Beer Institute (BI) in the trade group’s latest round of monthly economic reports.
We now know who will lead the next chapter of New Belgium Brewing. Chief marketing officer Shaun Belongie has been named the next CEO of New Belgium, effective immediately, taking the spot left vacant by Steve Fechheimer earlier this year.
