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.
The Beer Institute’s (BI) Code Compliance Review Board (CCRB) has found that Bud Light’s sponsored content with influencer Dylan Mulvaney did not violate the trade group’s Advertising Marketing Code and Buying Guidelines.
The beer industry’s trade groups have been a (mostly) united front in recent years, with leadership from the Beer Institute (BI), Brewers Association (BA) and National Beer Wholesalers Association (NBWA) sharing the stage several times to promote the need for a unified industry and banding together to advocate and pass the Craft Beverage Modernization and Tax Reform Act (CBMTRA) in 2017 and made permanent in 2020.
Beer producers shipped an estimated 17.5 million barrels of beer to wholesalers in May, a -4% decline (approximately 730,000 barrels) versus May 2022, according to the Beer Institute.
May recorded the largest year-over-year (YoY) decline in domestic tax paids so far this year, decreasing -7.7%, to 13.3 million barrels, according to the Beer Institute (BI).
Analysts from 3 Tier Beverages and CGA by NIQ shared a “surprising” and optimistic story about beer’s performance in on- and off-premise channels Thursday, during a webinar hosted by the Beer Institute (BI).
An estimated 15.9 million barrels of beer and malt products were shipped to wholesalers in April, a -4.5% decline (or -741,163 barrels of beer) versus April 2022, Beer Institute (BI) VP of research Danelle Kosmal reported in the trade group’s monthly economic report.
The U.S. beer industry recorded $409.2 billion of economic output in 2022, making up about 1.6% of the country’s gross domestic product (GDP), according to latest Beer Serves America report, a biennial study commissioned by the Beer Institute (BI) and the National Beer Wholesalers Association (NBWA).
After one month in the black, domestic tax paid shipments from U.S. breweries dipped into the red again with a -2.3% decline in March 2023, according to the Beer Institute (BI), citing numbers from the Alcohol and Tobacco Tax and Trade Bureau (TTB).
U.S. brewers shipped more than 11.1 million barrels of product in January 2023, a decline of -4.4% year-over-year (YoY), according to the Beer Institute (BI), citing domestic tax paid shipment estimates from the Alcohol and Tobacco Tax and Trade Bureau (TTB).
Jon London has returned to Boston Beer Company as brand director of Angry Orchard, the hard cider brand he helped launch more than a decade ago.
CPI for Beer At-Home +9% in January vs. 2022 The Consumer Price Index (CPI) for beer at-home continues to outpace inflation, increasing +9% last month versus January 2022, according to the U.S. Bureau of Labor Statistics (BLS). Beer price hikes have yet to slow down, increasing +8.6% year-over-year (YoY) in December, +7.7% in November and… Read more »
A new year brings the return of legislative sessions across the country and a new agenda for leaders of state brewers guilds. Texas Craft Brewers Guild executive director Caroline Wallace and Iowa Brewers Guild executive director Noreen Otto share their priorities in 2023, including advocating for direct-to-consumer sales, protecting existing privileges, working with wholesalers and much more.
Danelle Kosmal, VP of research for the Beer Institute; Jon Berg, VP alcohol industry thought leadership at NielsenIQ; and Danny Brager from 3 Tier Beverages provided a reality check with context on the state of the beverage alcohol industry during the Brewbound Live business conference.
U.S. brewers have now shipped fewer barrels of beer in nine of 11 months this year, with the November 2022 domestic tax paid estimate down -4% compared to November 2021, according to the Beer Institute, citing the latest figures from the Alcohol and Tobacco Tax and Trade Bureau.
