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The latest NIQ on premise update highlights a beer category under pressure, with both value and volume declining over the past year. In contrast, spirits and RTDs continue to capture share, supported by price-led growth and shifting consumer preferences.
The YTD 2026 Beverage Performance report from 3 Tier Beverages highlights a market undergoing a meaningful recalibration, with modest top-line declines masking significant structural shifts.
The Q1 2026 Supply Chain Snapshot dives into the critical inputs shaping beverage production – grains, hops, glass, sweeteners, packaging, and freight – highlighting where supply is abundant, where pricing remains stubbornly high, and where policy or geopolitical shifts could quickly alter the equation.
Large regional breweries that fall outside of the BA’s definition of a craft brewer collectively produced more than 8.64 million barrels of beer in 2021, a +2% increase on a comparable basis, according to data provided by the trade organization. The BA excludes companies that are at least 25% owned by a larger brewing company from its craft brewery data set and sets a production ceiling for BA-defined craft brewers at 6 million barrels.
Since its founding in 2010, Fiddlehead Brewing Company has recorded double-digit growth every year in each of its eight markets, and this year made the Brewers Association’s (BA’s) list of Top 50 Craft Breweries by volume, ranking No. 49.
The majority of distributors (70%) are seeing better growth for beer this spring, respondents told financial services firm Jefferies in a survey published today.
Sierra Nevada VP of sales Ellie Preslar and chief commercial officer Joe Whitney discussed the company’s growth via its Little Things family, media budget increases for Pale Ale, entering the non-alc segment with Hop Splash sparkling water and other innovations. After hinting at the possibility of taking non-alcoholic craft beer maker Athletic Brewing public during Brewbound Live last year, co-founder and CEO Bill Shufelt said an initial public offering (IPO) could materialize in the next 12-18 months.
On-premise sales velocity increased +3% in the week ending May 7, following a -1% decline in the week ending April 30, according to a report from the market research firm CGA.
On-premise volume declined for the third consecutive period, decreasing -1.9% over the weekend of May 5-8 compared to the weekend before, according to the market research firm BeerBoard.
Winners of the World Beer Cup – an international beer competition organized by the Brewers Association (BA) – were announced Thursday for the first time since 2018, at the conclusion of Craft Brewers Conference (CBC) in Minneapolis.
“How you interpret the numbers this year is really a matter of perspective,” Bart Watson, chief economist for the Brewers Association (BA), said in his state of the industry address today during Day One of the Craft Brewers Conference (CBC) in Minneapolis.
The beer industry has continued to “revert to pre-pandemic trends” for the fourth consecutive month, according to the National Beer Wholesalers Association’s (NBWA’s) April Beer Purchasers’ Index (BPI).
Legacy beer publication All About Beer was resurrected this week when beer journalists Andy Crouch and John Holl announced they acquired the outlet’s intellectual property and archives from its former owners. Weathered Souls Brewing co-founder Marcus Baskerville and Rahr Malting have partnered to launch the Harriet Baskerville Incubation Program, a Charlotte, North Carolina-based educational and mentoring platform aimed at diversifying the craft beer industry.
The open rate of on-premise establishments tracked by BeerBoard hit 97% over the weekend (April 21-24), the highest recorded rate since the firm began tracking in May 2020.
Boston Beer Company is maintaining its guidance of 4% to 10% volume growth in 2022, despite first quarter losses, the company’s leadership team shared during an earnings call with investors Friday.
Retail sales of Molson Coors Beverage Company’s Topo Chico Hard Seltzer increased +67% year-over-year (YOY) in Q1 2022 compared to Q1 2021, according to the most recent “Beverage Bytes” retailer survey by Goldman Sachs analyst Bonnie Herzog.