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.
The Consumer Price Index (CPI) for beer remained above 2022 levels in June, increasing +5.4% at home versus June 2022 and +5.3% away from home, before seasonal adjustment, according to the U.S. Bureau of Labor Statistics (BLS).
Boston Beer is “cranking up the dial on ABV” with its newest offering: Twisted Tea Extreme.
Beer producers shipped an estimated 17.5 million barrels of beer to wholesalers in May, a -4% decline (approximately 730,000 barrels) versus May 2022, according to the Beer Institute.
Funkytown Brewery has been named the winner of the 12th annual Samuel Adams Brewing the American Dream Brewing & Business Experienceship.
May recorded the largest year-over-year (YoY) decline in domestic tax paids so far this year, decreasing -7.7%, to 13.3 million barrels, according to the Beer Institute (BI).
Father’s Day was the ‘most valuable Sunday” so far this year for bev-alc in the on-premise channel, according to CGA, a NIQ on-premise market research firm.
Five years into business, JuneShine – a Southern California-based hard kombucha and canned cocktail maker – is eying its next chapter, focused on being not just a leader in the segments it participates in, but a competitor in the total bev-alc space.
For the first time since at least 2015, an equal number of craft beer drinkers surveyed in the Brewers Association’s (BA) annual Harris Poll said they were drinking more craft beer in 2023 than the amount who said they were drinking less craft beer – about 25% each.
Total beer category ordering rose again in June, with a reading of 54, according to the latest Beer Purchasers’ Index (BPI) shared by the National Beer Wholesalers Association (NBWA).
The on-premise channel is expected to see a welcome boost this coming week due to Independence Day, according to on-premise market research firm CGA, a NIQ company.
Brewing Union of Georgia (BUG) has updated its unfair labor practices (ULP) filings against Creature Comforts to include employee retaliation firing, after an employee of the Athens, Georgia-based brewery was allegedly fired for his union efforts.
In a time of uncertainty for beer, flavored malt beverages (FMBs) have found steady success and growth above nearly every other segment.
Stoup Brewing has shared plans to acquire Optimism Brewing, a fellow Seattle-based craft brewery.
A crowd gathered in The Lot at Harpoon Brewery in Boston’s Seaport District Saturday, suited up in rain gear. Several attendees adorned pretzel necklaces or matching Hawaiian shirts, others carried custom mini koozies to cradle their aluminum sample cups.
