data-trends
NIQ Weekly Scans: Easter Boosts Bev-Alc Sales +6.8% WoW; Wine Benefits Most From Holiday
Total bev-alc dollar sales accelerated 6.8% week-over-week (WoW) in off-premise channels in the first week of April as consumers celebrated...
Craft Beer
industry-news
BA Economist: 2026 Could Be a ‘Buying the Dip’ Moment for New Brewers
Over the last two years, 1,072 craft breweries have shuttered, while 817 new breweries opened. Speaking to Brewbound following Tuesday’s...
industry-news
BA Top 50: Sierra Nevada Overtakes Boston Beer at No. 2; Garage Beer, Outlaw Make Big Leaps
Beneath the surface of craft beer's 2025 production decline (-5.1%, to nearly 21.86 million barrels) were power moves, usurpings and...
data-trends
Brewers Association: Craft 2025 Production Volume -5.1%; 1,072 Brewery Closures in Last 2 Years
Craft brewers’ production volume fell a collective 5.1% in 2025, according to the Brewers Association’s (BA) annual Industry Production...
industry-news
Brooklyn Brewery Rebrands Non-Alcoholic Beer Line
Brooklyn Brewery’s non-alcoholic beer line is getting a rebrand and dropping the Special Effects moniker used since the line’s 2019 launch....
industry-news
Circana Weekly Scans: Beer Down YoY in Early Easter Reads
Spirits and wine may have had a few more eggs in their baskets this Easter compared to beer’s holiday haul, according to an early read of...
industry-news
Mark Anthony Brands to Acquire Finnish Long Drink
Mark Anthony Brands announced it has struck a deal to acquire the Finnish Long Drink, the popular gin-based, ready-to-drink (RTD) canned...
industry-news
‘$1 Out of Every $8 Spent on Craft Beer’ Going to New Belgium Brands, per CEO
New Belgium Brewing’s portfolio is craft’s top share gainer through Q1, CEO Shaun Belongie shared recently. The Kirin-owned New Belgium...
data-trends
Press Clips: Reyes’ New VP of Wine, Corona No Longer as Growth Driver, PBR’s $12 30-Packs & More
Check out news items initially reported in the Brewbound Insider Newsletter April 9-10, including headlines from Reyes, Rockport Brewing,...
industry-news
Sazerac Bid for Brown-Forman May Face Antitrust and Strategic Hurdles
Weeks after Brown-Forman and Pernod Ricard confirmed they are in merger talks, Sazerac has entered the chat – but analysts are skeptical...
industry-news
SEC Sues Drake’s Organic Spirits For $2.4M In Investor Fraud
The U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC) has filed a lawsuit against Mark D. Anderson, the founder and former CEO of shuttered...
industry-news
Press Clips: NYC’s Pricey Pints, Penn Brewery’s Chapter 11 Filing, Bow & Arrow’s James Beard Nomination & More
Unsurprisingly, the most expensive city to grab a beer is New York, according to a recent report from on-premise POS firm Toast. The median...