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2025 Craft Volume Declined 4%, Not 5.1% as Previously Reported, per BA Correction

2025 Craft Volume Declined 4%, Not 5.1% as Previously Reported, per BA Correction

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.

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Beer Trade Groups Spar in TTB Comment Submissions

Beer Trade Groups Spar in TTB Comment Submissions

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 Institute: April Shipments to Wholesalers -4.5%, Domestic Tax Paids -4%

Beer Institute: April Shipments to Wholesalers -4.5%, Domestic Tax Paids -4%

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.