The Brewers Association (BA) has announced the results of its board of directors election, which filled five seats on the trade group’s board.

Chicago’s “newest, freshest, funkiest Black-owned brewery” has won the 2021 edition of Brewbound’s Pitch Slam Competition, presented by O-I. Funkytown Brewery, the second Black-owned brewery in Chicago, won the 13th edition of the Pitch Slam competition, beating out five other semifinalists before a panel of industry experts.

Societe Brewing more than doubled its sales in 2021, increasing +120% vs. 2020.

Brewbound’s 2021 award winners and class of rising stars were announced today during the multimedia trade publication’s annual business conference in Santa Monica, California.

The six finalists have been selected in the 2021 edition of Brewbound’s Pitch Slam Competition, presented by OI. They’re advancing to the final round on Wednesday, December 1 (streamed for free on Brewbound.com.

The Brewers Collective West (BC West) — the western division of Anheuser-Busch InBev’s (A-B) craft business unit — will continue to focus on innovation as it transforms into more of a “beverage company” in 2022, Christine Perich, general manager of BC West, detailed to Brewbound.

Sierra Nevada Brewing company has hired Ellie Preslar as its new vice president of sales.

When Death & Co. opened its first bar in 2006, it rapidly established itself as one of the premiere names in the modern craft cocktail movement through its innovative approach to creating new drinks. Now, the company is hoping to do the same in the emerging RTD cocktail category with its first retail consumer product: a line of canned libations, which launched this month.

This week’s Brewbound Live business conference will stream live and free on Brewbound.com, as well as popular social channels YouTube, Facebook and LinkedIn.

Pabst Brewing Company has tapped Anheuser-Busch InBev alum Paul Chibe to succeed Eugene Kashper as CEO. Kashper, who acquired Pabst with TSG Consumer Partners in 2014, will remain with the company as chairman of the board of directors.

After more than a year away, Julia Herz will return to the Brewers Association (BA) as the executive director of the the trade group’s homebrewing division, the American Homebrewers Association (AHA).

Bump Williams Consulting shared the results of the firm’s annual 3 Tier Growth Strategies Survey, and there were “multiple aligned growth plans” across the tiers unlike in past years.

We’re excited to reveal the Brewbound Pitch Slam 13 semi-finalists and judges. We’ve narrowed down the semi-final pool to 12 companies. The chosen semi-finalists produce a wide range of alcoholic beverages.

After decades of steady increases, the U.S. beer industry’s volume has plateaued for the last 10 years, Beer Marketer’s Insights senior editor Christopher Shepard reported during the trade publication’s seminar last week. “In the 1970s, U.S. beer volume grew by almost 50% — 56 million barrels,” he said. “That’s almost two-thirds of the growth between 1970 and 2020, [and it] happened in 10 years right at the beginning.”