The majority (29) of the Brewers Association’s (BA) top 50 craft breweries declined in volume in 2022, according to data in the May/June 2023 edition of the trade group’s New Brewer Magazine.
The Brewers Association (BA) has shared its rankings of the top 50 independent craft breweries by sales volume, with U.S. craft brewers under the trade group’s small and independent brewery definition collectively producing 24.3 million barrels of beer and gaining 0.1% share of the overall beer market by volume to claim 13.2% share.
Craft brewery production volumes are down between -2% and -4% half way through 2023, according to the Brewers Association’s (BA) Midyear Survey.
The beer industry’s trade groups have been a (mostly) united front in recent years, with leadership from the Beer Institute (BI), Brewers Association (BA) and National Beer Wholesalers Association (NBWA) sharing the stage several times to promote the need for a unified industry and banding together to advocate and pass the Craft Beverage Modernization and Tax Reform Act (CBMTRA) in 2017 and made permanent in 2020.
For the first time since at least 2015, an equal number of craft beer drinkers surveyed in the Brewers Association’s (BA) annual Harris Poll said they were drinking more craft beer in 2023 than the amount who said they were drinking less craft beer – about 25% each.
Data Christmas continues, following the release of the Brewer Association’s (BA) annual production survey of U.S. craft breweries.
A bill to grant the U.S. Postal Service (USPS) alcohol shipping privileges has once again returned to the U.S. House of Representatives.
More regional craft breweries beyond the top 50 recorded a decline in production in 2022 than breweries that increased production, according to data published in the May/June edition of the Brewers Association’s (BA) New Brewer Magazine.
More than 300 winners were honored during the Brewers Association’s (BA) 2023 World Beer Cup (WBC) during Craft Brewers Conference in Nashville this week. Guinness Baltimore Blonde – the signature offering of brewing operations at Diageo’s Relay, Maryland-based production facility – has become such a local icon that one Baltimore County official wants to invest $500,000 in a local brewer to keep the beer flowing, according to the Baltimore Banner.
Full Pour, a business-centric gathering, will join the Brewers Association’s (BA) lineup of events when it debuts next month in San Diego.
Brewers Association (BA) government affairs leaders Marc Sorini and Katie Marisic laid out the state of play at the state and federal level earlier this week during the Craft Brewers Conference in Nashville.
Brewers Association (BA) general counsel Marc Sorini previewed the trade organization’s upcoming comments on modernizing trade practice regulations during the Craft Brewers Conference in Nashville on Monday.
While Brewers Association (BA) chief economist Bart Watson warned of continued craft declines during his keynote speech Monday at the Craft Brewers Conference (CBC), BA president and CEO Bob Pease shared a message of optimism while on stage in Nashville.
The craft brewing industry has entered a “new normal” of slow to no growth, Brewers Association (BA) chief economist Bart Watson shared during the keynote speech of the 2023 Craft Brewers Conference in Nashville.
Brewers Association (BA) chief economist Bart Watson continues to tease early data from the BA’s annual production survey, and the numbers aren’t getting any better.
Craft beer dollar sales and volume at off-premise retailers declined in 2022, and 2023 is not expected to be much better for the segment. If craft wants to win consumers and occasions, producers must meet new consumers on their level, Brewers Association (BA) chief economist Bart Watson shared last week at the New England Craft Brew Summit.
