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Ball Corporation is making beer a smaller part of its mix after over-indexing in the category, CEO Daniel Fisher shared during the company’s Q2 earnings report earlier this week.

Several brewery owners have publicly courted buyers by announcing their intentions to sell their businesses. Others have found buyers and have announced sales. Read updates from three breweries – all of which opened during the last decade’s craft beer boom – in transition.

Hard tea is all the rage right now, but one ready-to-drink (RTD) company has been championing the style since 2013.

While defending shelf space remains important, suppliers need to make sure they’re also retaining lucrative display, floor, promotional and feature space, Bump Williams Consulting (BWC) president Dave Williams and VP of business development and portfolio strategy Brian “BK” Krueger shared in the latest edition of the Brewbound Podcast.

Boston Beer Company is winding down its own-premise operations in Los Angeles. The company plans to close its Truly LA and Angel City taprooms at the end of their respective leases, according to an internal memo sent today by founder and future-CEO Jim Koch, and confirmed by Brewbound.

Molson Coors’ lackluster share performance was a driving factor in the company’s soft Q2 and lowered full-year expectations. However, leadership was still able to pull out some positivity during Tuesday’s call with investors and analysts.

What do distributors want in 2025? A survey of 173 distributors from across the U.S. found that middle-tier leaders are seeking simplification and focus in programs, among other key traits. Those answers were among the takeaways from consulting firm Tamarron’s 27th annual Brewer Partnership Compass survey.

The Beer Institute’s (BI) monthly economic report bore a rare bit of good news for the industry: Domestic tax paid beer shipments increased in June.

Molson Coors has lowered its fiscal year 2025 (FY25) guidance once again after a softer than expected Q2, due to continued macroeconomic headwinds and “lower than expected U.S. share performance.”

The proverbial sun may be parting the bev-alc clouds in the back half of a lackluster summer, with nearly all categories posting positive or flat dollar sales in Circana-tracked off-premise channels in the market research firm’s latest weekly report.

Uncle Nearest is firing back at the lender seeking control of the whiskey company’s operations for allegedly failing to pay its debts.

Pabst Brewing is making changes to its c-suite, including the appointment of Greig DeBow as CEO, effective August 11. DeBow succeeds Paul Chibe, who had been in the CEO role since December 2021.

“Flavored alcohol” across categories has become a lonely bright spot for the bev-alc industry, which is finding itself particularly pessimistic in 2025, according to the latest monthly report from Bump Williams of Bump Williams Consulting (BWC).

Boston Beer president CEO Michael Spillane is ending his leadership role with the company after just over a year, according to an 8-K filing submitted today (Friday, August 1) to the U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission.