Santa Rosa-based wine producer Vintage Wine Estates (VWE) has acquired Ace Cider, The California Cider Company, in Sebastopol, California. The transaction, which was announced Monday, closed today (November 16).

Alcohol e-commerce delivery platform Drizly is partnering with convenience giant 7-Eleven, allowing consumers to order alcohol delivery from more than 1,200 stores across 11 states.

Anheuser-Busch InBev (A-B) is investing deeper into its beyond beer portfolio with the acquisition of Ocean City, Maryland-based hard tea maker Hoop Tea.

Hard kombucha-maker JuneShine announced today the completion of a $24 million Series B funding round, which will help fund several initiatives, including the launch of its first non-hard kombucha product.

Allagash Brewing Company is continuing its focus on packaged products in 2022, led by its core brands, the Portland, Maine-headquartered craft brewery’s leadership team said during a press briefing Thursday.

Texas-based Shiner Beer released “Tall ‘Tails” this week, a variety 12-pack of cocktail-inspired hard seltzers.

Escondido, California-based Stone Brewing is headed into 2022 with a renewed focus on its core brands, led by its Buena brand family, CEO Maria Stipp told Brewbound.

Brooklyn Brewery is expanding its Special Effects non-alcoholic beer line with a new 12-pack featuring four varieties of non-alc beers.

Both volume and rate of sale in the on-premise bounced back over the weekend of November 4-7, after a weekend of decline in the period before (October 21-24), BeerBoard reported in its latest “On-Premise Status Report.”

For nearly a decade, Michael Taylor and Felipe Szpigel worked together at Anheuser-Busch InBev (A-B), building and guiding the world’s largest beer manufacturer’s craft beer division.

Tilray-owned SweetWater Brewing Company and Ontario, Canada-based RIFF Cannabis have collaborated to launch SweetWater RIFF, a vodka-based ready-to-drink (RTD) canned cocktail.

The Michael James Jackson Foundation (MJF) has awarded eight scholarships to beer industry professionals in its second round of grants aimed to help Black, Indigenous, and people of color advance in the brewing and distilling industries.

While implementing a direct-to-consumer (DTC) shipping program at breweries is anything but easy, participants during the Brewers Association’s (BA) Collab Hour last week agreed that the benefits far outweigh the costs.

Hawaii’s largest craft brewery, Maui Brewing, has transitioned production of some of its products to Denver, Colorado, following multiple supply chain constraints.