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.
Post-Memorial Day weekend scans “retraced to expected level[s]” in the latest report by market research firm Circana. Total bev-alc dollar sales in Circana-tracked off-premise channels were down 3.2% YoY and 6% WoW for the week ending June 1.
Barrel One Collective-owned Harpoon Brewery is expanding to New Hampshire, opening an “experimental brewery, restaurant and taproom” in the Granite State later this month, the Massachusetts-based craft brewery announced today.
Domestic tax paid shipments fell back in the red in April, declining 3% year-over-year (YoY), to an estimated 12.1 million barrels, according to the Beer Institute (BI), citing figures from the Alcohol and Tobacco Tax and Trade Bureau (TTB).
Ohio Allagash fans rejoice: The Portland, Maine-based craft brewery is headed back to the Buckeye State. Allagash has partnered with Premium Beverage Supply to distribute its core portfolio of beers in Ohio, 20 years after the brewery pulled out of the state.
Director of member resources Dr. J Jackson-Beckham will leave the Brewers Association (BA) at the end of the month, after seven years with the trade group.
Since April 2023, Ohio fans of Hi-Wire Brewing could get a taste of North Carolina by visiting the brewery’s Cincinnati taproom. But as of this week, the location is now in the hands of Kentucky-based Braxton Brewing.
Memorial Day weekend failed to bring the positive kick-off to summer that bev-alc industry members were hoping for, according to the latest weekly scans report from market research firm Circana.
Nearly a quarter of consumers (23.3%) have stopped drinking, or are taking a break from bev-alc, according to a recent survey by Bump Williams Consulting (BWC).
In Brewbound’s final feature coverage of the Brewers Association’s (BA) 2024 craft production numbers, we dove into trends amongst some of the smaller subsets: microbreweries, taprooms and brewpubs.
Total bev-alc dollar sales declined -2% both year-over-year (YoY) and week-over-week (WoW) in Circana-tracked off-premise channels through May 18, according to the market research firm’s latest weekly report.
Nearly three-fifths of Brewers Association (BA) defined regional craft breweries (57.02%) beyond the top 50 recorded production volume declines in 2024, according to annual data shared by the trade association in the May/June issue of the New Brewer magazine.
More than half of the Brewers Association’s (BA) top 50 craft breweries recorded year-over-year (YoY) production volume gains in 2024, in a positive shift from 2023 trends, according to annual production data shared by the trade group today.
Mother’s Day (Sunday, May 11) once again brought a welcome boost to the on-premise earlier this month, becoming the “most valuable” Sunday so far this year, according to CGA, the on-premise arm of NIQ.
On-premise spirits volume is trending at about 93% of the level the category was selling at in late 2019 and early 2020, prior to the COVID-19 pandemic and related on-premise shutdowns, according to a new report from CGA, the on-premise arm of NIQ.
