Sierra Nevada announced last week the closure of its Berkeley, California-based Torpedo Room satellite taproom after nearly a decade in business.

Anheuser-Busch InBev (A-B) will lay off 142 employees from its AB ONE operations, following the sale of the Oakland, California-based wholly owned distributor, the San Francisco Business Times reported.

Boston Beer Company’s leadership admitted the company has not performed “as expected” so far this year, lowering its guidance to a volume loss between -2% and -8%, during an earnings call with investors Thursday afternoon.

Beverage manufacturers are faced with a competitive market, tight labor pool, inflation, and trends showing regularly shifting consumer purchase behaviors. It’s more important than ever before to use technology that modernizes beverage businesses to keep brands agile and in sync with consumer demand.

E-commerce beverage-alcohol platform Provi defended its antitrust lawsuit against Southern Glazer’s Wine and Spirits and Republic National Distributing Co. (RNDC) this week, arguing the two distribution giants have relayed a “misleading narrative” to the court, Law360 reported.

Wholesalers gave highest marks to Anheuser-Busch InBev, Boston Beer Company and Constellation Brands Beer Division in Tamarron Consulting’s annual survey of distributors’ perception of key beer industry suppliers.

Due to the “greater than expected continuing decline in demand in the hard seltzer category,” Boston Beer Company has “reduced” its fiscal year 2022 volume and earnings guidance, founder and chairman Jim Koch said in a press release announcing the company’s Q2 2022 results.

Non-alcoholic beer, the convenience channel and imports are three bright spots in the beer business for the second quarter of 2022, according to bev-alc data firm 3 Tier Beverages. In this new quarterly series – 3 Up, 3 Down – Stephanie Roatis, 3 Tier consultant, product team, identifies three winners and three losers across bev-alc scan data.

Simply Spiked – the hard lemonade Molson Coors launched this summer in partnership with Coca-Cola – has taken the FMB corner of the bev-alc world by storm. Joy Ghosh, VP of marketing for above premium brands and FMBs at Molson Coors, joins the Brewbound Podcast to discuss the company’s launch strategy, new campaigns and plans… Read more »

Brewbound’s next Brew Talks in-person meetup is less than a week away. The conversation and networking series will roll into the Samuel Adams brewery in Boston’s Jamaica Plain neighborhood on Wednesday, July 27, with two high-level, business strategy-focused discussions, plus an overview of the issues facing Massachusetts craft breweries. Tickets are still available, with some of the proceeds going to the Massachusetts Brewers Guild.

Flying Embers, a Ojai, California-based hard kombucha and hard seltzer-maker, continues to explore “fourth category” beverage alcohol.

Lagunitas is undergoing a brand refresh to bring more of a billboard effect to retail shelves and increase brand awareness across its portfolio. Although there have been tweaks here and there to designs over the years, this marks the first global packaging redesign for the brand.

Two and a half years after selling Detroit-based Atwater Brewing to Molson Coors and seven months following his exit from the brewery, Mark Rieth is diving back into the beverage industry with FÜL Beverage, a family of non-alcoholic beers and functional drinks.

When Los Angeles-based Jiant launched its hard kombucha in the summer of 2019, the company had three full time employees, including its co-founders, Larry Haertel Jr. and Aaron Telch.