Drizly offered insights into sales of two of the online marketplace’s most popular beer category segments: IPAs and beyond beer, or “hard alternatives,” in the company’s parlance. Beverage packaging company Ardagh Group has proposed spinning off its can packaging operations into a new entity combined with Gores Holdings V, pending shareholder approval, according to a press release.
Former Wachusett Brewing Company president Christian McMahan has started The Hooch Lab, a consulting firm targeting higher-end brands in the beer, wine, spirits and ready-to-drink FMB space.
San Diego-based independent wholesaler Scout Distribution will begin distributing the Port Brewing and Tiny Bubbles brands beginning March 1, the San Marcos, California craft brewery announced today.
Craft beer dollar sales are up 18.8% year-to-date through January 24 at multi-outlet retailers and convenience stores tracked by market research firm IRI.
A cidermaker and a craft brewer wanted to open a bar, so they founded a distillery. It’s complicated, but it’s the origin story behind the Bale Breaker and Yonder Taproom, set to open this summer in Seattle’s Ballard neighborhood, thanks to a piece of legislation passed in 2020.
Constellation Brands is making a pair of executive moves, placing Jim Sabia in charge of the company’s beer division and promoting Mallika Monteiro to the expanded role of chief growth, strategy and digital officer. Those moves take effect on March 1.
Des Moines, Iowa-based Exile Brewing Company is expanding its distribution reach even further in the state of Illinois after launching in the Chicago suburbs of Aurora, Naperville, Wheaton, and Elgin last week.
The Maryland Health Equity Resource Act, which was introduced in the Maryland House of Delegates last month and referred to the Health & Government Operations Committee on February 2, would raise the 9% sales tax on alcoholic beverages by 1%.
Denizens Brewing co-founder and chief brand officer Julie Verratti will join the U.S. Small Business Administration (SBA) as associate administrator of field operations, beginning March 1. Verratti will step away from her role with the brewery to take on the political appointment.
Heineken USA showed off a slate of innovations that will begin rolling out in retailers this spring — including what CEO Maggie Timoney called its latest crown jewel, Dos Equis Ranch Water Hard Seltzer — during its spring meeting with wholesalers this week.
Truly Hard Seltzer boosted Boston Beer Company’s 2020 revenue to $1.74 billion, but production of the popular bubbly beverage remains a drag on the company’s gross margins, the company reported during its full-year and fourth quarter earnings report Wednesday.
Five months after taking over as CEO of Stone Brewing, Maria Stipp joins Brewbound Frontlines to discuss the path forward for the top 10 craft brewery and the strategy for its Southern California distribution business.
Draft beer volumes last weekend dropped by 19.4% compared to BeerBoard’s January 28-31 survey as the state was battered by winter storms that crippled its power grid, leaving almost 4 million people without electricity.
Boston Beer Company’s sales increased 38.9% in 2020, generating $1.74 billion in revenue, according to the company’s earnings report released Wednesday afternoon.
