Nearly a quarter of consumers (22%) surveyed by e-commerce alcohol delivery platform Drizly plan to reach for ready-to-drink canned cocktails (RTDs) the most this summer, a -17% decline versus 2022, according to Drizly’s fifth annual Consumer Trend Report.
Focus was one of the tips for craft breweries from Brewers Association chief economist Bart Watson during last week’s Craft Brewers Conference. Few brewers knocking on the door of 100,000 barrels are as focused as Montucky Cold Snacks. The Bozeman, Montana-headquartered craft brewery has one liquid and four SKUs.
Appalachian Mountain Brewery and Cidery (AMB) is returning to familiar ownership. Nathan Kelischek and Chris Zieber, founders of the Boone, North Carolina craft brewery, have agreed to purchase AMB from Anheuser-Busch InBev (A-B), according to a press release.
A month and a half after conservative outrage directed at Bud Light began, right wing social media has turned its attention to Miller Lite after a months-old commercial for the brand resurfaced.
The Brewbound team reunites to dish on the 2023 Craft Brewers Conference (CBC). Jess, Justin and Zoe discuss the Brewers Association’s state and federal ambitions, the beer trade groups’ union against canned cocktail market access and tax breaks, and trade practice reform.
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The trend of craft breweries extending their flagship beers continues. The latest is Monster-owned CANarchy’s Oskar Blues Brewery, which has extended its Dale’s Pale Ale.
Name, image and likeness (NIL) is bleeding over into the craft brewing industry. Two craft breweries announced partnerships with collectives to support student athletes in their respective states. Des Moines’ Exile Brewing Company is partnering with the University of Iowa’s Swarm Collective to launch Swarm Golden Ale, with 20% of revenue from the beer benefiting the 501(c)3 non-profit corporation. Meanwhile, Cincinnati’s Rhinegeist Brewery is partnering with the University of Cincinnati’s collective, Cincy Reigns, on the release of Cincy Light.
Join us tomorrow, Wednesday May 17, at 1 p.m. ET for an encore presentation of the Brew Talks conversations that took place in Nashville during the Craft Brewers Conference.
After just barely missing the 1 million case mark in 2022, Montucky Cold Snacks is aiming for 1.4 million cases in 2023, Seamus Gallagher, VP of marketing, and Jeff Courteau, VP of sales, shared with Brewbound.
Only 12 locales offer direct-to-consumer (DTC) shipping of beer, placing the privilege on the wishlists of many brewers and state guilds across the country. Sovos ShipCompliant vice president and general manager Larry Cormier joins Brewbound Frontlines to discuss the current state of play, the opportunity for not only brewers but states, and how legal action might pave a path to more states offering DTC shipping.
There were several factors that made ready-to-drink (RTD) canned cocktail Fishers Island Lemonade an attractive acquisition target for E. & J. Gallo: premium positioning, high reorder rates, excellent taste and founder Bronya Shillo’s pioneering vision for canned cocktails. The New York-based brand agreed to be acquired by Spirit of Gallo, E. & J. Gallo’s spirits division, earlier this month.
The 2023 edition of Russian River’s Pliny the Younger generated a record $6.3 million in economic impact, a more than $200,000 increase over last year’s record-breaking release, according to the Sonoma County Economic Development Board (EDB).
Ready-to-drink (RTD) beverage alcohol consumption has grown 104% in the past two years, according to NIQ, but how are consumers making shopping decisions, and where are they enjoying the growing variety of flavored malt beverages, canned cocktails and seltzers?
More than 300 winners were honored during the Brewers Association’s (BA) 2023 World Beer Cup (WBC) during Craft Brewers Conference in Nashville this week. Guinness Baltimore Blonde – the signature offering of brewing operations at Diageo’s Relay, Maryland-based production facility – has become such a local icon that one Baltimore County official wants to invest $500,000 in a local brewer to keep the beer flowing, according to the Baltimore Banner.
