Brewbound Live 2025 is in the books! Podcast co-hosts Zoe Licata and Jessica Infante recap this year’s conference. Then, Karl Strauss Brewing (San Diego, CA) co-founder and CEO Chris Cramer joins Brewbound editor Justin Kendall for this week’s featured interview.
“Barring a drastic change in the last few weeks” of 2025, craft will likely record its third consecutive year of volume declines and second consecutive year in which brewery closings outpaced openings, according to the Brewers Association (BA) in the trade group’s annual Year in Beer report.
Pennsylvania-based contract manufacturer Lion Beverages, LLC has closed a $150 million investment as it prepares to expand capacity in the new year.
Mark Anthony Brands founder and chairman Anthony von Mandl will step down as CEO and has appointed vice chairman Phil Rosse to succeed him, according to a memo shared with distributors today.
Craft beer’s grocery losses continued to accelerate in November, according to the latest monthly report from market research firm Circana. The segment recorded high-single-digit declines in dollar sales (-8.2%) and volume (-9%) at grocery stores in the four-week period (L4W) ending November 30, Circana reported. Those losses mark an acceleration from the prior L4W period… Read more »
Total bev-alc dollar sales fell 23% week-over-week (WoW) in an expected post-Thankgiving dive, Circana EVP, BevAl Scott Scanlon shared in the market research firm’s latest week report (data ending December 7).
Sycamore Brewing co-founder Justin Brigham may be divesting of the company, but industry members are not separating him and his legal charges from the Charlotte, North Carolina-based brewery so quickly.
Pabst Brewing may be in hot water following the company’s sales restructuring and ensuing layoffs, with the company potentially facing a class action lawsuit.
The BUFFALO BILLS may still be 2 games behind Zoe’s PATS in the AFC East … but they’re winning the beer innovation war.
Wilsbach Distributors (Harrisburg) has acquired Brewery Products Company (York), increasing Wilsbach’s volume 50% and “expanding and streamlining” the company’s distribution rights across its South Central Pennsylvania footprint, Wilsbach president Frank Sourbeer Jr. shared on LinkedIn over the weekend.
Beverage packaging manufacturer Ball Corporation will acquire an 80% stake in Benepack’s European can manufacturing businesses, including two production facilities in Belgium and Hungary, the company announced Wednesday.
Justin Brigham, co-founder of Charlotte, North Carolina-based Sycamore Brewing, was arrested on charges of statutory rape of a child by an adult, first degree burlgary and indecent liberties with a child by the Stanly County Sheriff’s Office on Thursday, December 11. In response to the charges, Sycamore owner and co-founder Sarah Taylor, who is Brigham’s… Read more »
Los Angeles-based Ikasu Brewing won the 17th edition of the Brewbound Live Pitch Slam.
Anheuser-Busch InBev (A-B) will sell one brewery and shutter another two, the company announced today.
