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.
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.
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.
Craft beer doesn’t need a complete reset in strategy, but rather a re-focus on what consumers care about to stay relevant, the panelists of Brewbound’s first in-person Brew Talks meet-up of 2021 said earlier this month.
Diageo plans to open a Guinness taproom in Chicago in 2023, the beer and spirits company announced this week.
Elevated off-premise sales, particularly for gift-giving, should continue for the remainder of the year as the holiday season approaches despite uncertainty caused by the COVID-19 delta variant, according to beverage alcohol industry panelists gathered by e-commerce, on-demand alcohol delivery platform Drizly.
The return of the NFL and college football was a good sign for on-premise establishments, leading to what BeerBoard founder and CEO Mark Young described as the “Dak Prescott Impact in Dallas,” named for the Cowboys quarterback.
Jack’s Abby Craft Lagers and Atlantic Importing and Distributing of Rhode Island will face off in a courtroom as the lawsuit between the two companies will go to trial, a Rhode Island Superior Court judge ruled today. In the interim, the Framingham, Massachusetts-based craft brewery must resume selling its products to Atlantic RI for distribution within the Ocean State, according to an order from Justice Brian P. Stern.
