In 2025, Jiant told Brewbound that it wanted to be hard tea’s Olipop – a flavor-forward, ingredient-focused functional brand that connected with new and lapsed drinkers in the category.
Surfside, the spirits-based iced tea category leader, is launching four new flavors as the brand continues its rise from a Northeast favorite to national ready-to-drink (RTD) powerhouse.
The future of hemp beverages remains in flux as potential legislative bills circulate on Capitol Hill, but for suppliers and distributors in the space, keeping up with demand has been business as usual. Almost.
The Q1 2026 Supply Chain Snapshot dives into the critical inputs shaping beverage production – grains, hops, glass, sweeteners, packaging, and freight – highlighting where supply is abundant, where pricing remains stubbornly high, and where policy or geopolitical shifts could quickly alter the equation.
Territory Sales Manager
The Tank Brewing Company
Bay Area Delivery Driver
Bottle Logic Brewing
Packaging Technician
Meanwhile Brewing Company
Director of Packaging
Hendler Family Brewing Company
National Accounts Manager
Big Country Organic Brewing Co.
Draft Beer Technician Supervisor
Sapporo-Stone Brewing
District Sales Manager
CG Roxane LLC
Distributors expect beer to be a smaller part of their portfolios in the next five years, according to the National Beer Wholesalers Association’s (NBWA) fall survey of 161 distributors.
Super Bowl LX bev-alc sales failed to surpass 2025 levels, but the trends aren’t as bad as they may seem on the surface, Circana EVP of BevAl Scott Scanlon reported with the latest off-premise scans.
The former vice president of human resources at Bardstown Bourbon Company has filed a whistleblower lawsuit alleging discrimination, retaliation and broader workplace misconduct at the prominent Kentucky-based whiskey producer.
The latest joining of craft brewing forces occurred in Bend, Oregon last week, with the creation of the Oregon Beverage Collective (OBC).
Scottish craft brewery BrewDog is exploring a sale, Sky News reported over the weekend. The craft brewery’s board has reportedly hired restructuring firm AlixPartners to gauge interest from prospective buyers “with a quickfire deadline for indicative offers.”
Domestic shipments declined 5.9% in 2025, a loss of more than 8.68 million barrels of beer, according to domestic tax paid shipment data shared by the Beer Institute (BI) Friday.
In our newly evolving AI world that I’m told we’ll soon be living in – or rather, you will (you’re talking to a guy who still pays his bills via the U.S. Postal Service) – we have a couple of developments this week on either side of the AI coin.
Check out news items were initially reported in the Brewbound Insider Newsletter February 12-13, including headlines from Georgia, NIQ, Sierra Nevada and more.
Nick Fink’s appointment Thursday as Constellation Brands’ CEO-in-waiting sparked takes from Wall Street analysts on what the transition means for the future of the Mexican beer importer.
Price hikes for beverage-alcohol continue to be a tale of diverging trajectories through the start of 2026.
