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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.
Brewbound continues to dive into 2023 craft beer production trends from the Brewers Association’s (BA) May/June issue of New Brewer Magazine. Brewbound previously covered top 50 craft, regionals beyond the top 50 and big beer craft. Now, a look at some of the trends in craft’s smaller subsets – taprooms, microbreweries and brewpubs:
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.
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.
Next month, Saint Arnold Brewing Company, the oldest craft brewery in the state of Texas, will celebrate its 30th anniversary. It only took about half that time for it to become “an overnight success,” joked its founder Brock Wagner.
Sapporo-Stone Brewing Co. unveiled a $60 million expansion plan yesterday that will double the company’s annual capacity to about 700,000 barrels.
Last week, Sierra Nevada announced the promotion of VP of sales Ellie Preslar to chief commercial officer (CCO) of the California-based craft brewery. Brewbound caught up with Preslar …
In this latest installment of 3 Up, 3 Down, 3 Tier product team consultant Stephanie Roatis shares a trio of insights on industry growth and three underperforming areas ahead of the summer selling season, with NIQ data through April 20, 2024.
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.
Sierra Nevada VP of sales Ellie Preslar has been promoted to chief commercial officer of the California-based craft brewery. Preslar fills the position left vacant by the retirement of Joe Whitney in October, after 17 years at Sierra Nevada.
Operating in a tourist-heavy city such as New Orleans can be a gold mine for hospitality businesses, but comes with its own challenges and hurdles, as COVID-19 taught business owners.. Urban South founder and CEO Jacob Landry shares what it’s like to run a brewery in the city in the latest edition of Brewbound’s Insider-exclusive Q&A series A Round With.
Russian River Brewing’s 20th annual Pliny the Younger release contributed $8.6 million in economic impact to the local economy in Sonoma County, according to the California-based brewery and the Sonoma County Economic Development Board (EDB).
Great Lakes Brewing Co. (GLBC) CEO Mark King has stepped down from the top position at the Cleveland, Ohio-based craft brewery, effective April 24, the company announced today.
Craft beer scans declined -3% in the four-week period ending April 21 in multi-outlet and convenience stores, tracked by market research firm Circana. Volume, measured in case sales, tumbled -4.7% in the period, the firm added.
