This week was a bit of deja vu, from non-alcoholic beer and higher ABV products aimed at convenience stores, to building out brand families and making partnerships, to filling out distribution maps.

Athletic Brewing, the country’s largest dedicated non-alcoholic craft brewery, will match the first $100,000 donated to the Michael Jackson Foundation for Brewing & Distilling’s (MJF) second annual fundraising campaign.

In another legal victory for Monster Energy, a California court issued a permanent injunction Wednesday against Bang Energy maker Vital Pharmaceuticals (VPX), requiring the company to pull all products featuring the word “creatine” from store shelves and to cease selling Bang products featuring the term within 60 days.

Brewery leaders will come together to discuss the growth drivers in craft beer, taproom expansion strategies and more during the first Brew Talks meetup of 2023 at Nashville Underground on Sunday, May 7, during the week of the Craft Brewers Conference. The full agenda is now available.

Jeffrey Stuffings, co-founder of Jester King, discusses a bill in the Texas Senate that would fine businesses $10,000 for hosting “sexually oriented performances” – which includes drag events, if people under age 18 are present or on public property – and shares why the Austin, Texas-based brewery is encouraging its followers to oppose it.

Boston Beer Company is making a convenience play in three markets with the launch of a new high-ABV, single-serve brand: Slingers Signature Cocktails.

The Consumer Price Index (CPI) for beer both at home (+6.1%) and away from home (+5.5%) outpaced overall inflation (+5%) in March 2023 compared to March 2022, according to the U.S. Bureau of Labor Statistics (BLS). Constellation Brands recorded an impairment charge of $66.5 million pertaining to what’s left of its craft beer division in its fiscal year 2023 fourth quarter, according to its most recent 8-K form filed with the U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC).

Heineken USA has released its first spirit-based portfolio extension of Jamaican beer brand Red Stripe with Red Stripe Rum Drinks. The canned cocktail will roll out in Florida starting today, and is set to hit select markets in the Northeast throughout the spring.

Bell’s has expanded distribution into Alaska, Idaho, Oregon, Utah and Washington, leaving Hawaii as the only state where drinkers can’t get Two Hearted IPA or Oberon Ale.

The Brewers Association (BA) has announced its 2023 Industry Award recipients, all five of whom have had an “immeasurable impact” on the craft brewing industry, BA president and CEO Bob Pease said in a press release.

Deschutes Brewery is moving production of its non-alcoholic beer in-house with an investment in Sustainable Beverage Technologies’ BrewVo equipment at its production facility in Bend, Oregon.

Canadian cannabis company Hexo Corp, a former partner of Molson Coors, has been acquired by Tilray Brands, in a deal valued at around $250 million, the company announced yesterday in its Q3 earnings report.

Molson Coors Beverage Company’s previously teased spirits-based Topo Chico offering is now a reality.

Heineken USA (HUSA) will halt shipments of all draft products to five states for the next year, a company spokesperson told Brewbound. Those states include Vermont, Wyoming, Montana, North Dakota and South Dakota. The Lagunitas brand, which Heineken wholly acquired in May 2017, is excluded from the draft cuts.