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.
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.
The top 50 Brewers Association-defined craft breweries once again posted results as diverse as their portfolio mix these days, according to 2025 production data shared Friday by the trade group.
The National Black Brewers Association (NB2A) is now operating as a board-run enterprise led by president Annie McGinnis.
Check out news items initially reported in the Brewbound Insider Newsletter July 13-15, including headlines from the Brewers Association, Girl Beer, Anheuser-Busch InBev and more.
After a positive April, U.S. beer supply fell back in the red in May, according to the latest monthly report from the Beer Institute (BI).
There’s still more beer demand in the future, according to beer wholesalers’ crystal balls.
The FIFA World Cup 2026 on-premise boost has emerged from coast to coast, according to the latest report from data firm BeerBoard. Those gains are much steeper in states with the 11 stadiums hosting World Cup matches, often by several orders of magnitude.
Craft beer drinkers increasingly want to spend more of their time and money at craft breweries and on craft beer. But getting general consumers in the door and turning them into craft drinkers is only getting harder, according to the Brewers Association’s (BA) 2026 Harris Poll Consumer Survey.
Cidermakers planning their packing lists for CiderCon 2027 will have to invest in some warm-weather clothes, because the event won’t be held in Chicago this upcoming February as initially expected.
This year’s dive into the Brewers Association (BA) annual production report and craft breweries’ volume trends is coming to an end, with a final installment analyzing contract brewed brands and alternating proprietorships.
As previously reported in Part 1 of our 2025 hospitality-driven brewery data dive, brewpubs recorded the smallest year-over-year (YoY) decline in 2025 production volume (-1.7% YoY) among all craft brewery types, according to the Brewers Association (BA).
Craft breweries continued to battle declines in 2025, but hospitality-focused breweries – including brewpubs and taprooms – were a “bright spot for the industry” last year, according to the Brewers Association (BA).
Domestic tax paid shipments fell back in the red in April, reflecting beer momentum’s post-Q1 “speed bump,” the Beer Institute (BI) reported today.
Microbreweries recorded the largest year-over-year (YoY) volume decline in 2025 among all Brewers Association (BA) defined craft brewery types, according to data from the trade group. The decline underscores microbreweries’ continued battles for space and attention on crowded retailer shelves and distributor trucks.
Was craft brewers’ 2025 less bad than we thought? The Brewers Association issued a revision to its annual production report. We’ll cover that, plus, interviews with Victory Brewing co-founder Bill Covaleski and director of brewing operations Joe Slavick, as well as Odell Brewing CEO Eric “Smitty” Smith.
Draft continues to claw back the share of total beer it lost during the COVID-19 pandemic and resulting on-premise closures and consumer shifts.
