Craft beer industry news.
I finally have some good news! I’ve found the cause behind the negative beer sales trends this year – apparently, it’s baseball players. Yes, it seems the days of players charging the field with beers in hand or knocking down 9+ beers on a team flight (while thinking you drank 70) are over …
Ohio distribution shakeups, breweries gets margin squeezed and Stone’s 29th anniversary.
Draft beer remains the dominating sales driver for taprooms, but breweries may need to expand their menus (and hours) if they want consumers to keep coming back, according to a new report from the Brewers Association (BA), citing taproom point-of-sale data from Arryved.
Mid-Atlantic brewpub chain Iron Hill Brewery has closed three locations, the company announced Wednesday in a press release. One of the shuttered locations was Iron Hill’s flagship brewpub in Newark, Delaware, its first location.
Selling “more moderation” is as tricky as it sounds according to the founders of Bar Nuda, a Mexican-inspired drinks pop-up and Los Angeles’s first completely adult non-alc (ANA) experience.
The return of professional football didn’t result in a boost to on-premise beer trends, contrary to years past. Opening weekend of the 2025 NFL season (September 4-7) led to high-single-digit declines in both draft beer (-7.3%) and packaged products (-8.3%) compared to 2024 opening weekend (September 5-8), according to on-premise tech and insights firm BeerBoard.
If going out seemed expensive in July, dining and drinking budgets were likely stretched further in August. The consumer price index (CPI) for alcohol away from home (+3.8% year-over-year [YoY]) and food away from home (+3.9% YoY) far outpaced overall inflation (+2.9%) in August, according to the U.S. Bureau of Labor Statistics’ (BLS) most recent monthly report.
Less has been more with BrewDog’s U.S. business over the last year and a half. On the latest episode of the Brewbound Podcast, BrewDog USA chief sales and marketing officer Eric Teodoro Franco explains how the business has “done fewer things better,” leading with a focus on its core brands, which helped the brand increase volume 26% last year.
Texas governor Greg Abbott has signed an executive order mandating age restrictions on the sale of hemp-derived THC products, roughly three months after he vetoed a bill that would have outlawed the intoxicant entirely in the Lone Star State.
Antigua Brewing Company has closed its sole location in San Luis Obispo, California, after four years in operation, the SLO Tribune reported. The shuttering has been characterized as an abrupt move.
Other Half Brewing is used to large growth targets, posting double-digit volume growth nearly every year since its inception in 2014, according to data from the Brewers Association (BA).
Sazerac and Coca Cola’s bev-alc subsidiary are embarking on a new partnership.
Crane Brewing (Raytown, Missouri), has closed after 11 years. In its early days, the brewery built its name on the homebrew and beer fest circuit with namesake Michael Crane’s sour ales and magenta-hued beet beer.
Celsius Holdings, which was tapped by PepsiCo last week to be the company’s “strategic energy lead,” has appointed seasoned marketing executive Rishi Daing as CMO, effective today.
