The majority (29) of the Brewers Association’s (BA) top 50 craft breweries declined in volume in 2022, according to data in the May/June 2023 edition of the trade group’s New Brewer Magazine.
The Brewers Association (BA) has shared its rankings of the top 50 independent craft breweries by sales volume, with U.S. craft brewers under the trade group’s small and independent brewery definition collectively producing 24.3 million barrels of beer and gaining 0.1% share of the overall beer market by volume to claim 13.2% share.
More than 9,000 breweries operated in the U.S. in 2021, a 6% increase from 2020, according to the Brewers Association (BA) in the trade group’s Year in Beer 2021.
Craft brewers should expect 2022 to be another year of disruptions due to a tumultuous supply chain and a wobbly return for draft beer sales, among other reasons, Brewers Association (BA) chief economist Bart Watson said during a Thursday webinar. While elevated at-the-brewery sales remain a bright spot for the craft beer industry, distribution sales… Read more »
The Brewers Association (BA) announced yesterday three at-large board members appointed to its board of directors for 2022.
The Brewers Association (BA) has announced the results of its board of directors election, which filled five seats on the trade group’s board.
After more than a year away, Julia Herz will return to the Brewers Association (BA) as the executive director of the the trade group’s homebrewing division, the American Homebrewers Association (AHA).
The Brewers Association (BA) will require attendees of its 2022 events to provide proof of vaccination for COVID-19 and will not accept negative test results as a substitute. “All events and competitions will have this requirement,” BA marketing and communications director Ann Obenchain told Brewbound. “There will be no negative test option.”
While implementing a direct-to-consumer (DTC) shipping program at breweries is anything but easy, participants during the Brewers Association’s (BA) Collab Hour last week agreed that the benefits far outweigh the costs.
In an op-ed she wrote in support of paid family leave for small businesses, Switchyard Brewing Company co-founder Kristin Cummings wrote that the company has strived to “offer better benefits and a better work-life balance” to its workforce. Voting has started for the Brewers Association’s (BA) board of directors election and ends November 17.
After two years of elevated focus on social and racial justice issues, ownership within the craft beer industry remains nearly monolithically white, according to a new demographic benchmarking report from the Brewers Association (BA). Brewery owners are 93.5% white, and 92.2% of breweries have entirely white ownership, according to the survey of 500 randomly selected breweries.
The Brewers Association issued a second round of comments to the Department of Treasury laying out the competitive challenges facing craft brewers, focusing on wholesaler consolidation, market access issues and restrictive state laws.
Updates to the EIDL program include an increase of the loan cap from $500,000 to $2 million, the addition of a two-year repayment deferral period, an expansion of eligible uses for funds, and the creation of a 30-day exclusivity window to approve and disburse loans smaller than $500,000 to focus on the smallest businesses, according to a Brewers Association (BA) blog post.
The Brewers Association (BA) named the winners of its annual industry awards during its annual Craft Brewers Conference, which took place in person for the first time since 2019 last weekend in Denver. “From innovations in brewing to fighting for legislation to protect craft brewers, this year’s award recipients have made countless contributions to the craft beer community,” BA president and CEO Bob Pease said in a press release.
A year after recording the first decline in the modern craft beer era, Brewers Association chief economist Bart Watson estimated that craft volume could grow between 7 and 8% in 2021.
Brewers Association (BA) president and CEO Bob Pease today announced the creation of the Brewing Respect and Unity (BRU) Coalition to combat sexual harassment and discrimination in the beer industry. “This scourge of discrimination has festered and held us back as a community, as individual businesses, and as human beings,” he continued. “It is time for an awakening.”
