U.S. beer shipments did a 180 in February, increasing 0.2% year-over-year (YoY) after a 1 million barrel loss in January, according to the latest report from the Beer Institute (BI).
In the wake of major shakeups in the middle-tier that will see the largest distributors getting even bigger and major manufacturers adding brands to their portfolios, Fingers newsletter author Dave Infante joins the Brewbound Podcast to recap a wild couple of weeks in the bev-alc industry.
Mocktail Club, the NA sparkling beverage brand founded by Pauline Idogho in 2019, has accomplished an unlikely feat: landing placement in 100 Virginia ABC stores, possibly one of the first times an adult non-alc (ANA) brand has cracked a control state system.
The luck of the Irish carried on for the beer category in the week after St. Patrick’s Day. Off-premise dollar sales of beer increased 3.1% week-over-week, to $863.3 million, for the week ending March 21, in NIQ-tracked retail channels. That marked a $33.7 million boost from the $829.6 million in sales the prior week.
Tilray Brands’ hit a company revenue record in Q3, generating $207 million in the quarter, but there was little help from the global cannabis firm’s bev-alc brands.
Check out news items initially reported in the Brewbound Insider Newsletter, including headlines from Tilray, Diageo, Andrews Distributing & more.
Bardstown Bourbon’s president Pete Marino is leaving his post in June after three years with the company.
“Flavored alcohol” continues to be a prominent growth driver in the beverage-alcohol landscape, but the field of notable participants is contracting, according to a new report from Bump Williams Consulting (BWC) VP and chief strategy officer Dan Wandel.
Allagash Brewing founder Rob Tod brought something of a family heirloom – and a piece of American beer marketing history – for a show-and-tell segment in his keynote address to the New York State Brewers Conference in Albany last month.
Bev-alc returned to growth in Circana-tracked off-premise channels in Week 2 of St. Patrick’s Day celebrations, according to the latest report from the market research firm.
The YTD 2026 Beverage Performance report from 3 Tier Beverages highlights a market undergoing a meaningful recalibration, with modest top-line declines masking significant structural shifts.
Wisconsin’s Eagle Park Brewing & Distilling has acquired SoulBoxer Cocktail Co., setting the stage for Eagle Park’s further expansion into canned cocktails spanning alcoholic, non-alcoholic and THC-infused formats.
The former executive team behind Casamigos (minus its celebrity owners) is making another move in the bev-alc industry with Por Qué No, a ready-to-drink (RTD) tequila and vodka offering.
If there’s a stay of execution, it’ll probably be at the last minute. That’s what hemp lobbyists and industry groups are starting to believe about the potential for a reprieve from the upcoming November 12 THC ban, according to the Coalition for Adult Beverage Alternatives (CABA).
