Creature Comforts co-founder Chris Herron is stepping down as CEO of the Athens, Georgia-based craft brewery. Co-founder Adam Beauchamp will take over the role.

Anchor Brewing’s future was revealed today with the announcement that Hamdi Ulukaya, the billionaire founder and CEO of yogurt and dairy brand Chobani, has acquired the craft brewery and its 2.17 acre property in San Francisco’s Potrero Hill neighborhood, according to The San Francisco Standard.

Brewers Association (BA) senior VP of meetings and events Nancy Johnson will retire from the trade association at the end of 2024. In the latest installment of A Round With, a weekly Insider-exclusive feature, Johnson looks back on her three decades at the BA and how the trade group’s events have evolved, as well as what beer events must do to continue to connect with consumers.

Production at craft breweries outside of the Brewers Association’s (BA) craft brewer definition collectively declined -6% on a comparable basis, to nearly 7.6 million barrels in 2023, according to data shared in the May/June edition of the New Brewer Magazine.

E-commerce beverage-alcohol platform Provi’s lawsuit against Southern Glazer’s Wine and Spirits and Republic National Distributing Co. (RNDC) will be able to go forward after a judge today denied a motion to dismiss the lawsuit filed by the two distributors.

Monster Brewing Company is shuttering Deep Ellum Brewing’s taproom and shifting production from its Dallas facility to the company’s other breweries.

The 2023 craft brewery production data is officially in. Justin, Zoe and weekend newsletter writer Sean McNutly dive into the high-level data points and sift through some of the surprises in the numbers. Plus, an interview with Brewjeria co-founder Agustin Ruelas and Norwalk Brew House founder Ray Ricky Rivera on the Los Farmworkers collab.

Just over one-third of regional craft breweries (38.2%) beyond the top 50 recorded production volume increases in 2023, down from about 45% who grew in 2022, according to data from the Brewers Association (BA), published in the May/June issue of New Brewer Magazine.

Changes are coming to this year’s Great American Beer Festival (GABF) in Denver, including one fewer session, a new floor plan and the ability to pour canned cocktails and pretty much any other product.

Molson Coors is shifting production of full-strength Peroni Nastro Azzurro to its brewery in Albany, Georgia, beginning in August.

Beer buyers’ optimism for beer continued this month, according to the latest Beer Purchasers’ Index (BPI) from the National Beer Wholesalers Association (NBWA).

Welcome to Brewbound’s Inside Look at the Beer Business for the week that was … Saturday, May 25, 2024. Well, I’m sorry beerbiz … but it seems the potheads have finally won.

Just over half of the Brewers Association’s (BA) top 50 craft breweries recorded production volume declines in 2023, according to data from the May/June issue of the trade group’s New Brewer Magazine.

Alaskan Brewing Company CEO Linda Thomas is stepping down from her role at the Juneau-headquartered craft brewery after three decades. Alaskan chief operations officer (COO) Max Rule will take over as CEO, effective June 1.