Ready-to-drink canned cocktail (RTD) brand Sauza Agave Cocktails, the first joint venture from Boston Beer Company and Beam Suntory, has been discontinued.

Six major U.S. beverage equipment makers are merging to form Lotus Beverage Alliance, designed as an end-to-end services provider for craft drinks.

Imports have been one of the few beer segments to consistently record off-premise growth over the past year, and a similar story is playing out in the on-premise, according to NIQ’s on-premise market research arm, CGA.

NoFo Brew Co. has reached a deal to acquire the land, building and assets of fellow Georgia craft brewery Tantrum Brewing.

Schilling Hard Cider has gone electric. The Seattle, Washington-based hard cider maker is continuing its mission to reduce its carbon footprint by investing in eight new electric-powered vehicles (EVs), that will be used by its Pacific Northwest sales team.

We don’t have the production numbers just yet, but the rankings are in for the Brewers Association’s (BA) annual list of the top 50 craft breweries by volume in 2022. This isn’t a best of list but a ranking of output for the breweries that meet the BA’s small and independent craft brewery definition.

Flavor is at the heart of discount supermarket chain Aldi’s summer strategy. As part of Alid’s seasonal reset, the company will add 18 private label alcoholic beverages (11 new and seven repeat items) all priced under $14 to its shelves starting Friday, April 21. Those products range from hard tea to hard seltzer, cocktail-inspired pouches to freeze pops, and beer to wine.

Finback Brewery co-founder Basil Lee shares how the New York craft brewery is preparing for the 2023 Whale Watching festival in Pawtucket, Rhode Island. Plus, Lee discusses plans to expand with another taproom in Long Island City and a farm brewery.

Monster Energy has asked a federal judge in Florida to dismiss a false advertising lawsuit filed by Bang Energy manufacturer Vital Pharmaceuticals (VPX) accusing the California-based energy drink leader of making dangerous products with hyperbolic marketing.

While 23-year-old Smirnoff Ice is around the same age as Gen. Z, the Diageo-owned flavored malt beverage (FMB) brand has been out of the spotlight in the past few years, as younger legal-drinking-age (LDA) consumers have gravitated toward new flashier beyond beer entrants such as Mark Anthony Brands’ White Claw Hard Seltzer and E. & J. Gallo’s High Noon Sun Sips.

Union workers at San Francisco-based Anchor Brewing are in limbo, as negotiations with company leadership for a new contract have stalled and the union’s initial contract has expired, according to union leaders.

The Brewers Association (BA) has shared its rankings of the top 50 independent craft breweries by sales volume, with U.S. craft brewers under the trade group’s small and independent brewery definition collectively producing 24.3 million barrels of beer and gaining 0.1% share of the overall beer market by volume to claim 13.2% share.

When non-alcoholic spirit Drink Monday launched in 2019, it was an exclusively digital brand. But as the company continued to grow, CEO Ken Young began pondering the path forward.

Sales data is out now showing the first week of the conservative-led boycott of Anheuser-Busch InBev’s Bud Light brand following the world’s largest beer maker’s March Madness activation with Dylan Mulvaney, an influencer who documents her life as a transgender woman.