While 23-year-old Smirnoff Ice is around the same age as Gen. Z, the Diageo-owned flavored malt beverage (FMB) brand has been out of the spotlight in the past few years, as younger legal-drinking-age (LDA) consumers have gravitated toward new flashier beyond beer entrants such as Mark Anthony Brands’ White Claw Hard Seltzer and E. & J. Gallo’s High Noon Sun Sips.
Union workers at San Francisco-based Anchor Brewing are in limbo, as negotiations with company leadership for a new contract have stalled and the union’s initial contract has expired, according to union leaders.
The Brewers Association (BA) has shared its rankings of the top 50 independent craft breweries by sales volume, with U.S. craft brewers under the trade group’s small and independent brewery definition collectively producing 24.3 million barrels of beer and gaining 0.1% share of the overall beer market by volume to claim 13.2% share.
When non-alcoholic spirit Drink Monday launched in 2019, it was an exclusively digital brand. But as the company continued to grow, CEO Ken Young began pondering the path forward.
Sales data is out now showing the first week of the conservative-led boycott of Anheuser-Busch InBev’s Bud Light brand following the world’s largest beer maker’s March Madness activation with Dylan Mulvaney, an influencer who documents her life as a transgender woman.
Although beverage sales growth has remained steady throughout Q1 2023, convenience retailers showed some trepidation for the months ahead by lowering their annual sales growth projection to +4.6% in the latest Beverage Bytes survey from Goldman Sachs Equity Research.
Molson Coors and The Coca-Cola Company are partnering again this fall with the launch of Peace Hard Tea, a 5% ABV malt-based version of Coca-Cola’s Peace Tea.
Scottish-headquartered craft brewer BrewDog has shuttered its pub in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, marking its second U.S. pub closure in less than a year.
Allagash Brewing will move to the Reyes Beverage Group in some parts of California, a spokesperson for the Portland, Maine-headquartered craft brewery told Brewbound.
BarrelHouse Brewing Co. has purchased Sherwood Field Hangar, a historic airplane hangar in Paso Robles, California, and the surrounding property, which will house the brewery’s new production facility.
This week was a bit of deja vu, from non-alcoholic beer and higher ABV products aimed at convenience stores, to building out brand families and making partnerships, to filling out distribution maps.
Athletic Brewing, the country’s largest dedicated non-alcoholic craft brewery, will match the first $100,000 donated to the Michael Jackson Foundation for Brewing & Distilling’s (MJF) second annual fundraising campaign.
In another legal victory for Monster Energy, a California court issued a permanent injunction Wednesday against Bang Energy maker Vital Pharmaceuticals (VPX), requiring the company to pull all products featuring the word “creatine” from store shelves and to cease selling Bang products featuring the term within 60 days.
Brewery leaders will come together to discuss the growth drivers in craft beer, taproom expansion strategies and more during the first Brew Talks meetup of 2023 at Nashville Underground on Sunday, May 7, during the week of the Craft Brewers Conference. The full agenda is now available.
