Beer Industry News, Insights, Jobs, & Events

There’s a large group of consumers with proven loyalty and potential to drive bev-alc sales that has gone relatively overlooked by the industry: women’s sports fans. Hurray’s Girl Beer is hoping to change that.

On-premise gains from the FIFA World Cup slowed slightly after the tournament’s headline-making hot start, but new data from on-premise insights firm BeerBoard suggests that later weeks may have been just as impactful to bars and restaurants – at least when it comes to draft sales.

Want to unleash faster growth in adult non-alcoholic drinks? Get ready to break some rules, says Jill Sites, who recently concluded a stint as EVP of sales at non-alc brand The Pathfinder.

The country’s second-largest grocery retail chain is reportedly moving into hemp THC drinks.

Hard cider has continued to post year-over-year (YoY) growth this year despite bev-alc’s Q2 slowdown, as both regional and national brands have found gains, according to new data from 3 Tier Beverages.

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.

Best Day Brewing founder and CEO Tate Huffard believes the modern non-alcoholic (NA) beer movement is now in its second wave – one characterized by “belonging.”

Joel Gott Wines, a powerhouse producer of entry-level supermarket staples, is tapping ready-to-drink (RTD) and functional trends with a new release launched today.

Five months after an unsuccessful bid to buy back BrewDog, co-founder James Watt is at it again. The Scottish entrepreneur announced today that he has made an offer to Tilray Brands to reacquire BrewDog via his Second Best brand, which he founded in May. Details of the offer were not made public.

The latest NIQ On Premise analysis reveals a beer category that continues to face volume pressure, but one where performance varies significantly by segment, format, and occasion. The findings also highlight meaningful shifts in on-premise consumption that extend beyond topline category performance.

As many companies across the beverage aisle run towards wellness, one alcohol replacement brand is backing away from it.

This year’s Fourth of July celebrations promised to be the biggest yet, with the U.S. celebrating its 250th anniversary. However, the holiday appeared as a small blip in off-premise scans, according to the most recent report from market research firm NIQ.

Beer remained an outlier among beverage-alcohol, with June price increases nearly keeping pace with overall inflation, according to the latest Consumer Price Index (CPI) report from the U.S. Bureau of Labor Statistics (BLS).

Brown-Forman president and CEO Lawson Whiting will retire, effective once the company names a successor, the Jack Daniel’s parent announced today.