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Despite estimated production volume declines of 4%, craft brewers are feeling confident halfway through 2026, according to the Brewers Association’s (BA) mid-year report.
Small and independent craft brewers’ output declined 4% in 2025 – more than 25% less than was previously reported by the Brewers Association (BA). The BA issued a correction of its 2025 Beer Industry Production Survey (BIPS), which was published last month, after receiving “revised production figures for a small number of regional craft brewers,” a BA spokesperson said in a statement shared Tuesday with Brewbound.
More than half (55.45%) of Brewers Association (BA) defined regional craft breweries beyond the top 50 recorded production volume declines in 2025, but there are still signs of improvement compared to 2024, according to annual data shared last week by the trade group.
Mayflower Brewing (Plymouth, Massachusetts) will shutter its production facility and consolidate operations at sibling brewery Cape Cod Beer (Hyannis, Massachusetts), the Plymouth Independent reported.
Three Orange County, California-based craft breweries are linking up under The Bruery Group banner.
Winning brands don’t ask why consumers are forsaking them or react to headlines about industry declines by wondering how they’ll affect the category.
New Belgium Brewing CEO Shaun Belongie promised the company’s distributor partners a strategy of “radical simplicity,” with singular asks for its big three brands, rather than a monthly calendar of brand focuses.
Sun King Brewery is changing up its operations in the Sunshine State. The Indianapolis-based craft brewery is transitioning all of its Florida production to a co-manufacturer, and is moving taproom locations.
The Brewers Association (BA) has streamlined voting classes in its annual board of directors election, which is open through October 21.
New Belgium Brewing’s Daleville, Virginia-based “Liquid Center” will open to the public beginning November 6.
Front of house workers at Boston Beer Company’s Samuel Adams Boston Brewery and Taproom passed a vote to unionize Tuesday, joining the United Food and Commercial Workers (UFCW) Local 328.
Sparkling water, tea and alcohol-free beverage brand Hoplark’s parent company has filed for Chapter 7 bankruptcy liquidation and teased a “potential lawsuit against Brooklyn Brewery,” alleging the New York craft brewery violated a licensing agreement and its fiduciary duties.
As the broader craft beer industry has weathered years of volume declines, Asheville, North Carolina-based Highland Brewing has simultaneously navigated two storms of its own (one literal), while also feeling the winds that have buffeted its brewing peers.
Craft’s declines continued to accelerate through August and into early September, including Labor Day weekend, according to the latest monthly scans report from Chicago-based market research firm Circana.
Summit Brewing is working to find a path forward after its lender BMO Bank initiated a foreclosure action last week. The St. Paul, Minnesota-based craft brewery, on the verge of its 40th anniversary celebration next week, is pursuing “solutions that will allow us to obtain a new lender and fully activate our growth plan for the years to come,” CEO Brandon Bland shared with Brewbound.
Months after announcing plans to retire and sell the business, Lost Coast Brewing founder Barbara Groom has officially listed the Northern California craft brewery for auction.
Once Minnesota’s largest craft brewery and one of the 25 largest in the country, St. Paul, Minnesota-based Summit Brewing Company is now facing bank foreclosure proceedings.
