Craft brewers’ production volume fell a collective 5.1% in 2025, according to the Brewers Association’s (BA) annual Industry Production Report, published today.
Anyone looking for an answer to when craft’s current era of compounding hurdles and declines will come to an end received a reality check Wednesday during Brewers Association (BA) president and CEO Bart Watson’s state of the industry address, held at the start of Day 2 of the Craft Brewers Conference (CBC) in Indianapolis.
Around 10,000 industry members are expected to make the trip to Indianapolis for the 2025 Craft Brewers Conference and BrewExpo America (April 28 to May 1). The gathering takes place against a backdrop of growing headwinds for craft breweries and an overhaul of CBC’s host organization, the Brewers Association.
At-the-brewery sales from January to May 2023 increased +2.6% compared to the same period in 2022, according to Arryved POS data parsed by Brewers Association (BA) chief economist Bart Watson in a recent blog post. However, sales increased at about half the rate of inflation, which the U.S. Bureau of Labor Statistics (BLS) tracked at… Read more »
More than 260 breweries were awarded medals Saturday in Denver at the Great American Beer Festival (GABF). The Brewers Association (BA) gave out 303 medals to 263 breweries in the 37th year of the competition and 41st year of the festival, according to a press release.
The Brewers Association’s Great American Beer Festival (GABF) kicks off for its 41st edition tonight in Denver at the Colorado Convention Center. For the first time, fest goers will be able to sample cider and hard seltzer along with a dizzying array of craft beer from brewers across the country.
The Brewers Association (BA) is urging breweries to submit any federal approval requests or applications ASAP over concerns of a government shutdown.
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.
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.
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.
