December 9+10 2026 • Los Angeles, CA
Discover what belongs in your portfolio next.
Discover emerging beer and bev-alc brands, taste the liquid firsthand, meet the teams behind it, and pair what you see with category data and market perspective.
More choice. Less margin for the wrong call.
Know what deserves a closer look.
Beer is under pressure while RTDs, non-alc, and spirits-based products compete for placements and portfolio attention. The challenge is separating durable opportunity from short-lived momentum.
Brewbound Live brings founders, category experts, and decision-makers together so you can taste products, hear the business case, compare market signals, and make sharper portfolio decisions.
Taste before you take the next meeting
Product sampling
Sampling brings beer, RTDs, NA, and adjacent bev-alc products together for side-by-side discovery.
Taste what founders are bringing to market, compare formats and positioning, and meet the teams behind the products face to face. See which brands deserve a deeper conversation.
1:1 Meetings
Move from discovery to a direct conversation.
Requested 1:1 meetings create scheduled face-to-face time with founders behind emerging beer and bev-alc brands. Ask direct questions about market fit, distribution readiness, and where the business is headed.
Meetings are approved based on fit, so both sides arrive prepared.
Pitch Slam
See the next wave make its case.
Brewbound’s Pitch Slam puts emerging beer and bev-alc brands on stage to make the case for their product, positioning, route to market, and business.
It’s a concentrated look at what is coming next, how founders are framing the opportunity, and which brands merit a closer conversation.
A few past participants
Sessions and speakers
Data for the decisions behind your portfolio.
Brewbound’s editorial team builds sessions around the portfolio questions that matter now: what to add, what to cut, and where demand is moving.
Expect category data and operator perspective on velocity, on-premise strategy, portfolio rationalization, non-alc, and changing consumer behavior.
Speakers bring years of industry experience, adding context to the data through lessons learned across changing categories, consumer shifts, and portfolio decisions.
A Sample of Past Speakers
Direct access across the three-tier system
Who you'll meet
Brewbound Live is intentionally smaller than the industry’s largest conferences. That means more direct access, more substantive conversations, and more time with founders, buyers, distributors, and category leaders who matter to your business.
Founders and brand leaders
Leaders behind emerging beer, RTD, non-alc, and adjacent bev-alc brands.
Distributors and wholesalers
Portfolio decision-makers evaluating brands, categories, and opportunities across markets.
On-premise buyers
Buyers from bars, restaurants, hospitality groups, and national accounts.
Off-premise buyers
Category managers and buyers across grocery, liquor retail, convenience, and chains.
Category experts
Analysts and data professionals tracking velocity, consumer behavior, and category movement.
Investors and industry partners
Capital partners, suppliers, and specialists active across beer and bev-alc.
Past attendees across the Brewbound Live community
Past attendees span brands, distributors, retail, the on-premise, and industry partners across beer and bev-alc.
What past attendees say
Meeting with Extramile was a good chance to check in on some early results from our test run of some product at Extramile stores... Meeting with Applebee's buyer was also very interesting. With this chain being a national player, it was hard as a regional brewery to get any substantial programming set up with the chain. He did recommend working at store level as many stores can make local buying decisions.
Brewbound Live is among the best networking conferences I have attended in the industry. An intimate setting with incredible speakers that offers the opportunity for dedicated retailer and distributor meetings. I have met many industry friends at Brewbound, in addition to getting important business accomplished.
Brand discovery. Category intelligence. Direct conversations.
Make your next portfolio decision with more context.
Taste emerging products, meet the teams behind them, and compare what you see with category data and perspective from across beer and bev-alc.
