Key services performed by the Department of Treasury’s Alcohol and Tobacco Tax and Trade Bureau (TTB) will be paused if the government shuts down this week, TTB deputy administrator David Wulf said during the Beer Institute (BI) annual membership meeting this week.
Beer industry veteran Simon Thorpe has emerged as part of the team behind SUNiCE, a pouch-packaged alcoholic beverage brand for a generation of legal-drinking-age consumers who grew up on Capri Sun pouches, Kool Aid Jammers and Hi-C juice boxes.
Increased aluminum and steel prices continue to hurt beer manufacturers, and equalization efforts by spirits companies threaten the beer industry’s stranglehold of retail cold boxes.
Sheehan Family Companies has reached an agreement to acquire some of the assets of Everett, Massachusetts-based Night Shift Distributing (NSD), including the distribution rights to Night Shift Brewing’s portfolio in Massachusetts and Connecticut, beginning October 18.
Beer Institute president and CEO Jim McGreevy joined the Brewbound Podcast ahead of his organization’s annual membership meeting to discuss the most pressing issues facing the trade group, which counts the nation’s largest breweries among its members. Those issues include the spirits industry’s push for equalization to beer in taxation and market access particularly as… Read more »
Gen Z consumers care less about who you are, and more about what you do. And any form of inauthenticity or surface-level activism will be called out immediately, the second round of Brew Talks panelists agreed.
As the beverage industry faces a painful crunch on aluminum can supply, another manufacturer announced last week that it is working to expand production. Crown Holdings said Friday that it has selected Mesquite, Nevada as the location of a new aluminum can manufacturing facility.
Anheuser-Busch InBev’s (A-B) Cacti Agave Spiked Seltzer is facing a proposed class action complaint that claims the brand misled consumers to believe Cacti contained agave spirits, rather than agave sweetener.
Once tariffs are imposed, they’re difficult to repeal. That was one of the takeaways from a pre-recorded interview between Beer Institute president and CEO Jim McGreevy and Wendy Cutler, vice president and managing director for Washington, D.C.-based think tank the Asia Society Policy Institute.
Riding the strength of its positioning as the “only RTD hydration beverage with 100% of the daily allowance of Vitamin D per bottle,” Michigan-based Shinewater has secured a deal that will see it enter Anheuser-Busch’s network of wholly owned distributors starting next month.
With the summer selling season officially in the rearview mirror, beer category off-premise dollar sales ended with a -7.6% decline compared to the same period in 2020, but increased +9.3% compared to summer 2019, according to market research firm NielsenIQ.
Ball Corp., the leading U.S. manufacturer of metal packaging for beverages, will build a $290 million aluminum beverage packaging plant in North Las Vegas, Nevada, with plans to begin production in late 2022, the company announced Thursday.
After a quarter-century as the nation’s first and only Jewish craft beer brand, Shmaltz Brewing will sunset its operations following a farewell tour this fall. “We’ve accomplished so much more than I ever imagined with He’brew and Shmaltz Brewing that why not be really proud and excited to put a bow on it on Year 25?” founder Jeremy Cowan told Brewbound.