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.

U.S. brewers shipped approximately 11.4 million barrels of beer in February, returning to pre-pandemic levels after “two unusual years of swings,” according to Beer Institute (BI) VP of research Danelle Kosmal, citing numbers from the Alcohol and Tobacco Tax and Trade Bureau (TTB).

In the midst of a bourbon boom, the Kentucky General Assembly has passed a bill to gradually phase out the state’s tax on aging spirit barrels.

Dokkaebier, the Northern California brand inspired by Asian culinary ingredients, has its first brick-and-mortar location after acquiring Oakland-based Federation Brewing last week. “Definitely, it gives us a lot of opportunity to see a lot of customers in person,” Dokkaebier founder and CEO Youngwon Lee told Brewbound. “I think it is very critical to have customers… Read more »

Lawson’s Finest Liquids is continuing to build its Sunshine family. The latest addition to the family is Hazy Rays IPA, a 5.3% New England IPA, available starting this week in 16 oz. can 4-packs, 12 oz. can 12-packs and on draft across the company’s nine-state footprint.

As the craft beer segment matures and sales slow, a lot of brewers are trying to figure out the path forward. That seemed to be the unofficial theme of the week.

Mikkeller’s outpost in San Diego’s Little Italy – the Danish brewer’s last U.S. location – will close this weekend, the brewery announced on Instagram.

Constellation Brands’ beer business topped $7.456 billion in net sales, an +11% year-over-year increase (YoY), during its 2023 fiscal year, which ended February 28, the company reported today during its full-year and fourth-quarter earnings report.

The Lost Abbey is in the process of scaling down the business. Tomme Arthur discusses the process of growing by getting smaller, the opportunities he sees ahead for the Southern California-based brewery and the evolution of the craft brewing industry.

California Black-owned breweries Full Circle Brewing and Speakeasy Ales & Lagers announced a merger today that the companies say will create the largest Black-owned brewing company in the U.S.

Jennifer Lopez is the latest high-profile name to jump into the rising ready-to-drink cocktail category with the launch of The House of Delola, a new Beam Suntory-backed brand of spirit-based, pre-mixed drinks which is set to debut this spring with its first product, Delola Spritz.

Wine and spirits distributor Martignetti Companies has struck a deal to acquire Massachusetts-based beer wholesaler Quality Beverage, the companies announced today in a press release.

New beer category products have delivered more than half a billion dollars in off-premise sales in the last year, according to market research firm NielsenIQ (NIQ).