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Seven of the 10 largest Brewers Association-defined craft breweries recorded production volume declines in 2025, according to data shared by the trade group in the May/June Issue of The New Brewer magazine.
Ball Corporation’s North American and European aluminum can supply will be hard to come by for the foreseeable future – into the end of the decade, CEO Ron Lewis shared during the manufacturer’s Q1 earnings call earlier this week.
Anheuser-Busch InBev (A-B) outperformed the U.S. beer industry in the first quarter of 2026, the company reported Tuesday. In the U.S., A-B’s Q1 depletions (sales to retailers) increased 0.3% year-over-year (YoY), which the company credited to “beer and beyond beer share gains and an improved industry.” Shipments (sales to wholesalers) declined 3.2%.
Sapporo-Stone Brewing Co. unveiled a $60 million expansion plan yesterday that will double the company’s annual capacity to about 700,000 barrels.
Boston Beer Company emerged with a “buy” rating following the results of financial services firm Jefferies’ 11th bi-annual beer distributor survey. Jefferies equity analyst Kaumil Gajrawala cited Twisted Tea’s dominance of the flavored malt beverage (FMB) segment, and the “stabilization” of Truly Hard Seltzer trends leading to less volatility, among the reasons for the improved rating.
Boston Beer Company founder and board chairman Jim Koch was brutally honest about some of the company’s past failings in a fireside chat with Goldman Sachs analyst Bonnie Herzog today during the investment firm’s Global Staples Forum.
Anheuser-Busch InBev’s (A-B) U.S. businesses recorded double-digit shipments and depletions declines in Q1, the final quarter before the company begins to lap initial accelerated declines from the conservative-led boycott of Bud Light that began in April 2023.
Move over domestic premiums, imports are king. Imports overtook domestic premiums in dollar sales in NIQ-tracked off-premise channels in the four-week period ending April 20, making imports the No. 1 beer segment in scans.
Molson Coors’ shipments in the Americas outpaced depletions by more than 750,000 hectoliters (more than 639,000 barrels), exceeding the company’s already inflated expectations for Q1 as it prepares for elevated summer sales, leadership shared today on a call with investors and analysts.
Molson Coors net sales increased +10.7% (+10.1% in constant currency) in Q1 2024, as the company continues to record volume growth from its core brands, the company reported today.
In the latest installment of Brewbound’s A Round With – a weekly Insider-exclusive Q&A series with industry leaders – Katy McBrady, president of Molson Coors-owned Atwater Brewery, dives into the importance of leveraging beer as a conduit to connect with your community, as the Detroit-based craft brewery has done through D Light and limited releases such as Miggy 3000, a pale ale brewed to celebrate Miguel Cabrera’s retirement from the MLB’s Detroit Tigers.
New Boston Beer CEO Michael Spillane said the company’s “highest priority” moving forward “is to return to delivering sustainable volume growth.”
Boston Beer Company’s Q1 volume woes eased in 2024, after Q1 shipments and depletions declines in both 2022 and 2023.
Consumer sentiment toward Anheuser-Busch InBev’s (A-B) Bud Light continues to decline more than a year after the initial boycott of the brand, according to a HundredX survey, shared by Goldman Sachs in its latest Beverage Bytes report.
The country’s five largest craft brewers by volume in 2023 remain unchanged from 2022, according to the Brewers Association (BA), which released its annual craft brewery production report today.
Constellation Brands capped another strong year for its beer business with full-year net sales growth of +9% for its beer brands, hitting the top end of the company’s +8% to +9% growth expectations for fiscal year 2024, company leadership shared Thursday.
Constellation Brands is expected to be the biggest winner in shelf resets this spring, according to the most recent Beverage Bytes beer distributor survey by Goldman Sachs.
