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Seven of the 10 largest Brewers Association-defined craft breweries recorded production volume declines in 2025, according to data shared by the trade group in the May/June Issue of The New Brewer magazine.
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.
The Virginia Craft Brewers Guild (VCBG) could be in the beer distribution business by next summer, it announced last week.
A federal judge has rejected Monster’s motion to be awarded $6 million in attorney’s fees over its “intensely litigated” dispute with Vital Pharmaceuticals (VPX), parent company to Bang Energy, on grounds that the case was not considered frivolous or unreasonable in accordance with the Lanham Act.
A lawsuit has been filed against New Jersey-based Cape May Brewing and the convenience chain Wawa, over the companies’ collaborative hard tea brand, Shore Tea.
Following the U.S. Supreme Court’s ruling on Dobbs vs. Jackson Women’s Health Organization in June – which overturned Roe vs. Wade, triggering a domino effect that could limit access to abortion and other reproductive care procedures in nearly two dozen states – the Brewers Association (BA) has published a guide to help its members navigate the healthcare ramifications in affected states and support employees.
Cincinnati’s Rhinegeist Brewery will begin “a two-stage expansion” into Houston, Texas, starting in mid-August via Silver Eagle Distributors.
National Beer Wholesalers Association chief economist Lester Jones joins the Brewbound Podcast to explain why he’s bullish on the beer category despite the current economic climate.
Brewers Association (BA) chief economist Bart Watson reported last week that indicators halfway through 2022 point to growth between 4% and 5% for craft beer by the year’s end. That estimate is in line with the projection Watson made at the end of 2021, when the industry grew 8% as the on-premise channel began to reopen.
More than two years after announcing her retirement, craft brewing pioneer Carol Stoudt’s eponymous German-inspired brand will be returning to Pennsylvania draft lines in time for Oktoberfest season through a licensing partnership with Philadelphia-based Evil Genius Beer Company.
Inflationary pressures that tamped down orders in June are persisting into July, as total beer contracted for the second month in a row, according to the National Beer Wholesalers Association (NBWA), which released its monthly Beer Purchasers’ Index (BPI) today.
A federal judge has denied Molson Coors’ attempt to toss a $56 million jury award to Stone Brewing in the San Diego craft brewery’s trademark infringement lawsuit over the 2017 refresh of Keystone Light packaging, according to an order filed Tuesday.
Anheuser-Busch InBev (A-B) will lay off 142 employees from its AB ONE operations, following the sale of the Oakland, California-based wholly owned distributor, the San Francisco Business Times reported.
E-commerce beverage-alcohol platform Provi defended its antitrust lawsuit against Southern Glazer’s Wine and Spirits and Republic National Distributing Co. (RNDC) this week, arguing the two distribution giants have relayed a “misleading narrative” to the court, Law360 reported.
What could the sale of a long fiercely independent craft brewery to a global brewing giant mean for consumer sentiment?
Halfway through 2022, off-premise scan data of the craft beer segment is “somewhere in between expected and alarming,” Brewers Association (BA) chief economist Bart Watson wrote in an update about craft’s performance ahead of his mid-year review of craft production, scheduled for July 28.
