Build a Smarter Path to Distribution
Strengthen your route to market, sharpen your story, and connect with the distributors, buyers, and operators who can help you understand what it takes to earn placement and stay there.
Brewbound Live Returns to L.A. On Dec. 9+10
Brewbound Live offers a space to pause, connect with peers who understand the pressures of the industry, and realign strategy. This two-day, editorially curated event brings together brewers, distributors, investors, and suppliers for unfiltered conversations, practical takeaways, and relationship-building that drives real business outcomes.
Join two days of candid discussions, one-to-one meetings, data-driven insights, and peer exchange — all designed to help you sharpen your business strategy, strengthen partnerships, and stay ahead of where the category is heading.
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What Are You Looking to Accomplish?
Brewbound Live is built around the decisions shaping growth across beer and beverage alcohol. Choose the path that best matches what you’re working toward and see how Brewbound Live can help.
Been to Brewbound Live Before? See how you can build upon your last experience and keep the momentum going.
Open More Accounts and Find Your Next Source of Growth
Explore where volume is moving across retail, the on-premise, and the broader bev-alc market while strengthening distributor relationships and identifying the accounts and channels worth pursuing.
Make Stronger Portfolio Decisions
Taste emerging beer and bev-alc products, meet the teams behind them, and pair what you see with category data and market perspective to decide which brands deserve a closer look.
Support Brands as They Scale
Connect with founders and operators who are making decisions around production, distribution, capital, sales, and the partners they need as the business evolves.
A Sample of Past Attendees
What Happens at Brewbound Live
See Where Beverage Alcohol Is Headed
Hear from brewers, buyers, distributors, operators, investors, and other industry leaders about what’s changing across beer, spirits, RTDs, NA, and the on-premise — and where they’re still finding opportunities to win.
Compare Notes With People Facing the Same Pressures
Brewbound Live creates space for candid conversations about profitability, distribution, taprooms, portfolio strategy, consumer occasions, and the decisions operators are making right now. Scheduled 1:1 meetings, networking, meals, and time between sessions give those conversations room to develop.
Discover What’s Gaining Traction Across the Category
Sample new products and approaches from across beer and beyond, talk directly with the people behind them, and see how brands are responding to changing consumer tastes and occasions.
Put New Ideas in Front of the Industry
Pitch Slam gives emerging brands the chance to present what they’re building, hear direct feedback, and gain exposure with an audience that understands the beverage-alcohol business.
Brewbound Live 2026 Speakers
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Recent Event Announcements
Brewbound Live 2026 Pitch Slam Expands Eligibility: Applications Are Now Open
Applications are now open for the Brewbound Live 2026 Pitch Slam, taking place during Brewbound Live on December 9 + 10 in Marina del Rey, California. This year, the competition is opening to a broader mix of brands, including beer (alcoholic and non-alcoholic), hard cider, hard seltzer, hard kombucha, canned cocktails and other canned beer-, wine- and spirits-based beverages. The focus is not simply on what is new, but on how each brand can contribute to growth across beer and the broader beverage-alcohol industry.Driving & Sustaining Profitable Taproom Growth with Talea Beer Co-Founder Tara Hankinson at Brewbound Live 2026
Talea Beer co-founder and co-CEO Tara Hankinson will share how the New York City-headquartered, woman-founded-and-led craft brewery manages multiple locations and stays profitable during this December’s Brewbound Live business conference.Brewbound Live: Why Occasions, Not Cases, Will Define 2026
Riding a wave of major events, occasions (not cases) became the story for the on-premise in 2026, according to Lester Jones, National Beer Wholesalers Association VP of analytics and chief economist. Jones and Draftline Technologies founder and CEO Jennifer Hauke will share why draft and the on-premise are driving the beer industry’s narrative, during Brewbound Live 2026, December 9 & 10 in Marina del Rey, California.Brewbound Live Returns to LA This December: Allagash’s Rob Tod & Celine Frueh to Give Keynote Address
Brewbound Live will return to Los Angeles this December. The conference for beverage-alcohol professionals will feature two packed days of insights, conversations and networking on December 9 + 10 at the Marina del Rey Marriott. Allagash Brewing Company founder Rob Tod and VP of human resources & organizational development Celine Frueh will give this year’s... Read more »
From Past Attendees
"Craft beer is experiencing a ton of pressure right now as a category. To hear what's happening in spirits, wine, RTDs and NA, and to really understand how our whole alcohol category is performing, and where others are finding those opportunities to win, is very beneficial."
"This is a great networking opportunity on a smaller scale than the CBC. Last year was my first year and I left the conference feeling like I had learned something and had many meaningful conversations.”
"The industry is always changing. And if you're not learning what those changes are, you're going to fall behind and Brewbound Live is one of those places that you can connect with other industry leaders and learn about the latest trends."
Invest in the Future of Your Beer Business
Attending Brewbound Live is the first step in propelling your business into growth mode. Establish new partnerships, collaborate with beer industry experts, and walk away with the ability to make more strategic decisions for your company.
