Seasonal trends for onsite brewery sales have remained relatively consistent since January 2021, but “in real terms” – i.e. accounting for inflation – onsite sales continue to decline, according to Brewers Association (BA) staff economist Matt Gacioch, citing data from Arryved.
Craft beer has entered “no to negative growth territory,” Brewers Association (BA) chief economist Bart Watson said during a year-end webinar last week. “We were in double-digit growth as recently as 2014, 2015, and then we moved into kind of a more developed, slow, single-digit growth rate,” Watson said. “COVID hit, and we had the worst year in craft history in 2020 with a partial bounce back in 2021.
This year will be the first, other than 2020, in which independent breweries’ volume has declined in the modern era of craft beer, according to the Brewers Association’s (BA) 2023 Year in Beer report.
Cans reached their highest-ever share of Brewers Association-defined (BA) packaged craft beer sold at off-premise retailers in 2021, according to a report from chief economist Bart Watson.
U.S. brewers shipped 169,154,000 barrels of beer in 2021, a 0.1% decline (-233,691 barrels) compared to 2020, according to the Beer Institute (BI), citing domestic tax paid estimates from the Alcohol and Tobacco Trade Bureau.
U.S. brewers shipped 16.4 million barrels of beer in November, a +4.7% increase over November 2020, according to the Beer Institute (BI), citing figures from the Alcohol and Tobacco Tax and Trade Bureau (TTB).
The Beer Institute (BI) has promoted several team members, including Susan Haney, who was elevated to senior VP of public affairs, the trade group announced Wednesday.
Increased aluminum and steel prices continue to hurt beer manufacturers, and equalization efforts by spirits companies threaten the beer industry’s stranglehold of retail cold boxes.
Anheuser-Busch InBev’s (A-B) Cacti Agave Spiked Seltzer is facing a proposed class action complaint that claims the brand misled consumers to believe Cacti contained agave spirits, rather than agave sweetener.
Once tariffs are imposed, they’re difficult to repeal. That was one of the takeaways from a pre-recorded interview between Beer Institute president and CEO Jim McGreevy and Wendy Cutler, vice president and managing director for Washington, D.C.-based think tank the Asia Society Policy Institute.
Ball Corp., the leading U.S. manufacturer of metal packaging for beverages, will build a $290 million aluminum beverage packaging plant in North Las Vegas, Nevada, with plans to begin production in late 2022, the company announced Thursday.
A plan that would allow Canadian cannabis company Tilray to issue additional shares needs more votes, CEO Irwin D. Simon wrote to shareholders yesterday in a letter.
Leaders from the Brewers Association (BA), Beer Institute (BI), and National Beer Wholesalers Association (NBWA) submitted comments to Amy Greenberg, regulations and rulings division director of the Alcohol and Tobacco Tax and Trade Bureau (TTB), detailing each group’s purview of the market and specific requests that would benefit or mitigate harm against their respective members.
A majority of American consumers want nutritional transparency in alcoholic beverages, according to a 2021 report from the consultancy Quadrant Strategies, released today by the national trade group the Beer Institute (BI).
The National Beer Wholesalers Association’s (NBWA) monthly Beer Purchasers’ Index found that wholesalers are reporting smaller inventories of beer at risk of going out of code.
Shipyard Brewing has appointed David Phillips as chief operating officer; Joe Heaton will depart the Beer Institute after serving as senior director of federal affairs for the national trade organization; and Constellation Brands has appointed Liz Lopez as VP of public affairs to lead on issues related to cannabis policy in the U.S.
The Beer Institute (BI) today announced the hire of Danelle Kosmal as vice president of research. Kosmal will join the trade association — which represents the interests of brewers, importers and beer industry suppliers — in late August.
