The high end beer segment is poised to grow by 170 million cases over the next two years, according to Constellation Brands executive vice president Paul Hetterich. Speaking to more than 200 beer industry professionals attending the Beer Marketer’s Insights winter seminar, Hetterich, as well as leaders from Anheuser-Busch InBev and MillerCoors, discussed the consumer shift toward high end products and their companies’ strategies for competing in that segment.
In our latest distribution roundup, Upland Brewing expands to Boston; Forbidden Root inks agreements with Cavalier in Ohio and Florida and Ghostfish Brewing expands to Eastern Washington and Idaho.
Massachusetts’ love affair with New Belgium will begin just in time for Valentine’s Day. The Fort Collins-based, bike-friendly brewery announced today that it will begin distribution throughout the Bay State starting February 13, 2017. (The company has a second production brewery located in Asheville, North Carolina.)
Two more employees have left Minneapolis’ Surly Brewing Company, with their sights set on opening a brewery in St. Paul’s growing Lowertown neighborhood in 2017.
Brett Splinter, Surly’s former director of technology, and brewer Timmy Johnson have announced plans to open a 10-barrel brewhouse, a 90-seat tasting room and a 4,000 sq. ft. cellar dedicated to barrel-aging.
Two groups representing the interests of Colorado craft brewery owners have merged just five months after 14 companies defected from the Colorado Brewers Guild, a statewide trade association that has advocated for breweries and brewpubs since 1995.
Despite pre-election polls showing no clear path to a Donald Trump presidency, the Republican nominee defeated Hillary Clinton and will become the 45th president of the United States.
Constellation Brands has negotiated its “most comprehensive arena sponsorship” for popular Corona, Modelo and Ballast Point beer brands, yesterday announcing the signing of a lucrative “marketing alliance” with Barclays Center and the Brooklyn Nets.
Are you a new brewery owner? Do you want to win $5,000 and take an all-expenses-paid trip to Beervana? Interested in brewing a specialty batch of beer at the new Widmer Brothers innovation brewery? On Dec. 1, at the Brewbound Session conference in San Diego, six craft brewery entrepreneurs who have been on the market for two years or less will have an opportunity to participate in Brewbound’s one-of-a-kind business pitch competition — Startup Brewery Challenge 7, presented by Craft Brew Alliance.
Tomorrow, voters in five states will decide whether to legalize sales of recreational marijuana. And on December 1, Vivien Azer, Cowen and Company’s managing director and senior research analyst specializing in the beverage, tobacco and cannabis sectors, will discuss how a growing marijuana economy could impact companies in the alcohol sector.
The latest twist in Massachusetts’ pay-for-play scandal came Friday as beer importer Shelton Brothers filed a lawsuit against Craft Brewers Guild, owned by Sheehan Family Companies, alleging that the Everett, Mass.-based wholesaler’s “unfair and illegal” practices cost its company $1.7 million in potential sales, according to the Boston Globe. The lawsuit comes eight months after… Read more »
When asked during last week’s earnings call whether or not the U.S. craft market was reaching an “inflection point,” Anheuser-Busch InBev CEO Carlos Brito responded by speculating that consumers might one day “get a bit tired of so much choice.” That sound bite — which was part of a two-minute long response about the growth of craft, A-B’s activity in the segment and thoughts on how the category is continuing to evolve — would eventually get picked up by beverage industry website just-drinks.com, igniting a hailstorm of hot takes in the process.
Another member of MillerCoors’ Tenth & Blake division is setting up shop near a Major League Baseball stadium. Texas’ Revolver Brewing plans to open a brewery inside the forthcoming entertainment district being developed by the Texas Rangers and the Cordish Companies in Arlington, Texas.
Anheuser-Busch InBev today announced it would purchase Karbach Brewing Company, the fastest-growing craft brewery in Texas and the ninth to join A-B’s ever-expanding High End division. Specific financial terms of the transaction were not disc
