Chicago-based Funkytown Brewery is already seeing the benefits from winning the Samuel Adams Brewing the American Dream Brewing & Business Experienceship this summer.

More than 260 breweries were awarded medals Saturday in Denver at the Great American Beer Festival (GABF). The Brewers Association (BA) gave out 303 medals to 263 breweries in the 37th year of the competition and 41st year of the festival, according to a press release.

Revolution Brewing is getting into the non-alcoholic (NA) beverage game. The Chicago-based craft brewery has launched Super-Zero sparkling hop water, its first NA offering.

While Athletic Brewing Company continues to record exponential growth for its non-alcoholic (NA) offerings in the U.S., it’s not limiting itself to its home country. The Milford, Connecticut-based craft brewery announced expansion moves today for its business in both the U.K. and Canada.

We are now about three-quarters of the way through 2023 and on-premise trends have remained relatively similar to 2022, according to CGA, a NIQ-powered on-premise market research firm.

The Consumer Price Index (CPI) for beer away from home increased to +5.2% year-over-year (YoY) and +1% versus July, according to the U.S. Bureau of Labor Statistics.

Bell’s Brewery fans across the country can now stay in the Oberon spirit through the colder months, with Oberon Eclipse, a nationally distributed fall and winter seasonal.

Distributors noticed stronger beer trends this summer versus last summer, “despite headline concerns over the slowing category and ongoing Bud Light pressures,” Goldman Sachs analysts reported in the company’s latest Bev Bytes Beer Distributor Survey.

Beyond beer has been a key growth driver for bev-alc companies, and it’s the beer category’s battle to win, according to Boston Beer Company founder Jim Koch.

Domestic tax paid shipments for July were down -8.4% versus July 2022, to 12.8 million barrels, according to the Beer Institute (BI) in its latest round of economic reports.

A month after Molson Coors’ sunny Q2 earnings call with investors, CEO Gavin Hattersley gave an update on continued positive trends at the Barclays Global Consumer Staples Conference.

The Brewers Association (BA) is urging breweries to submit any federal approval requests or applications ASAP over concerns of a government shutdown.

The average case price for beer in grocery stores has increased +16.7% since 2019, with consumers now paying more than $4 more in 2023 than they were pre-pandemic, according to Bump Williams Consulting (BWC) founder Bump Williams in his monthly industry update.

Despite some ebbs and flows, on-premise sales velocity over the last 12 weeks (ending August 26) has remained flat versus the same period in 2022, according to CGA, a NIQ-powered on-premise market research firm.