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Ale Asylum’s flagship Hopalicious pale ale is back from the dead, eight months after the Wisconsin brewery closed its doors, thanks to another Madison brewery.

After Covid-19 boosted online beverage alcohol sales, growth is expected to normalize as omnichannel and on-demand operators gain share, according to a new report released Thursday from the IWSR Drinks Market Analysis.

As the Brewbound team gets ready to embark on another road trip next week, Zoe and Jess are wrapping up their own recent journeys. Zoe ventured to Maine for the New England Craft Brew Summit in Portland, and she picked up more than a few nuggets from that trip. Notably, Brewers Association chief economist Bart Watson offered an early read on 2022 production numbers.

Athletic Brewing’s non-alcoholic (NA) beers may soon be on tap at a bar or restaurant near you. The Connecticut-based NA brewery posted a photo on Twitter this week of co-founders John Walker and Bill Shufelt “headed down to NYC to deliver our first kegs.”

Two Washington state craft- and import-centric distributors are shutting down in the wake of their parent company’s sale to PepsiCo.

Craft beer dollar sales and volume at off-premise retailers declined in 2022, and 2023 is not expected to be much better for the segment. If craft wants to win consumers and occasions, producers must meet new consumers on their level, Brewers Association (BA) chief economist Bart Watson shared last week at the New England Craft Brew Summit.

Wisconsin-based contract brewery Octopi Brewing is targeting 7 million cases produced in 2023, and a lot of that product isn’t beer. So how is the overall contract brewing landscape shaping up? Octopi founder president Isaac Showaki discusses.

The world’s largest manufacturer of aluminum cans is considering closing another production facility. Ball Corporation announced today that it has notified employees and union representatives of the potential closure of its plant in Wallkill, New York, as part of its collective bargaining agreement.

A federal jury has found that Constellation Brands’ production of products such as Corona Hard Seltzer and Modelo Ranch Water does not violate the company’s licensing agreement with Anheuser-Busch InBev (A-B).

Off-premise dollar sales of craft beer declined -4%, to nearly $620.8 million, while case sales dipped -8.6% year-to-date through February 26 in multi-outlet and convenience stores (MULC) tracked by Circana, the market research firm formerly known as IRI.

The Consumer Price Index (CPI) for beer at home has outpaced inflation for another month in a row, increasing +7% in February 2023 compared to February 2022, according to the U.S. Bureau of Labor Statistics (BLS).

The collapse of Silicon Valley Bank (SVB) last week left at least one craft brewery scrambling heading into last weekend. Castle Island Brewing Co. found its bank accounts “completely frozen” as of Friday, as federal regulators assumed control of the bank’s operations, founder and CEO Adam Romanow told Brewbound.

New Belgium is out here makin’ news, and just like recording star Lizzo, it can all be blamed on the juice.

New England craft beer sales are outperforming national trends, Bump Williams, president and CEO of Bump Williams Consulting (BWC), shared last week during the New England Craft Brew Summit in Portland, Maine.