📜 INSIDER’S Week in Beer: The Next Beer Trend: 3,000-Year-Old Sours

📜 INSIDER’S Week in Beer: The Next Beer Trend: 3,000-Year-Old Sours

So I think we’ve been looking in the wrong direction all of this time for #innovation – Utah’s Dylan McDonnell has the right idea. He brewed a beer using a recipe from a 3,000 year old Egyptian papyrus, which oddly enough also had “Next year will be the Year of the Craft Lager” written on it, and yeast cultured from a jar that dates back to the 9th century B.C.

Circana: Craft Dollars -5.5% in Last 4 Weeks; 23 of Top 30 Craft in Decline

Circana: Craft Dollars -5.5% in Last 4 Weeks; 23 of Top 30 Craft in Decline

Craft beer’s dollar sales declines continued to accelerate through late May, according to market research firm Circana. Craft dollar sales in Circana-tracked off-premise channels (multi-outlet plus convenience) declined -5.5% in the four-week period ending May 19, accelerating from -3% in the previous period (ending April 21).

Beer Institute: April Shipments Bounce Back from Steep March Declines

Beer Institute: April Shipments Bounce Back from Steep March Declines

April domestic tax paid shipments declined an estimated -4.3% year-over-year (YoY), to 12.3 million barrels, according to Beer Institute (BI) chief economist Andrew Heritage, citing estimates from the Alcohol and Tobacco Tax and Trade Bureau (TTB).

🎶 A Round With Rhythm Brewing’s Alisa Bowens-Mercado

🎶 A Round With Rhythm Brewing’s Alisa Bowens-Mercado

Alisa Bowens-Mercado is on a mission to make Rhythm Brewing the first nationally distributed beer brand owned by a woman of color. She discusses that goal and all the stops along the way, including a pop-up summer beer garden in the brewery’s hometown of New Haven, Connecticut, and ready-to-drink espresso martinis.

A Round With… Alisa Bowens-Mercado of Connecticut’s Rhythm Brewing

A Round With… Alisa Bowens-Mercado of Connecticut’s Rhythm Brewing

In the latest installment of Brewbound’s A Round With – a weekly Insider-exclusive Q&A series with industry leaders – Alisa Bowens-Mercado, founder and owner of Rhythm Brewing, discusses her quest to make the Connecticut brewery the first nationally distributed beer brand owned by a woman of color and all the stops along the way, including a pop-up summer beer garden in New Haven and ready-to-drink espresso martinis.

Sapporo-Stone Officially Appoints Zach Keeling as CEO

Sapporo-Stone Officially Appoints Zach Keeling as CEO

Sapporo-Stone Brewing is officially making Zach Keeling its new CEO. Keeling was appointed interim CEO in January when then-CEO Maria Stipp stepped down from the role after guiding the Escondido, California-headquartered brewery through its 2022 acquisition by the Japanese brewing giant and through its integration.