The Brewers Association’s 2025 Year in Beer review, published December 15 right here, confirms what many independent brewers already felt on the ground. Craft beer remained under pressure. Volume ...

The Brewers Association has released its annual rankings of the top 50 U.S. craft brewing companies by beer sales volume. The 2024 list reflects a changing landscape, where resilience, regional power, ...

Proper cleaning in the brewery is the single most crucial thing brewers can do to ensure good quality, great tasting beer, time after time. Caustic (NaOH or KOH) has been the primary chemical of ...

The report reveals that 89% of consumers now prefer ready-to-drink (RTD) beverages. RTDs offer convenience and appeal to a broad audience. Escoffier’s analysis projects that the RTD cocktail market ...

CGA’s latest On Premise Impact Report highlights the steady and positive consumer trends in early 2025, with key takeaways for craft brewers looking to stay competitive in the dynamic hospitality ...

Non-alcoholic beer continues to post big gains in 2025. New data from the Beer Institute shows that the NA beer category is up 22.2% year-to-date and 16.4% over the past 12 months. The top growth ...

Distribution is down. Shelf space is shrinking. So how do independent brewers break through? PMMI’s latest report has clues. The U.S. craft beer landscape continues to tighten. As noted in multiple ...

Wilding Brands has acquired Station 26 Brewing Co., a longtime Denver favorite known for juicy IPAs, cream ales, and community spirit. Station 26 now joins one of the fastest-growing craft beverage ...

Anderson Valley Brewing Co. in Boonville, Calif., makes some awesome Goses. In fact, Brewmaster Fal Allen wrote a whole book on them. So who better to submit 6,000+ words on the topic? Part 1 covered ...

Here’s something interesting out of left field: A global cannabis company based in Canada, Aphria Inc., is buying SweetWater Brewing Co. for $300 million. Aphria is looking to use SweetWater’s U.S.

Is the contraction of craft beer off-premise slowing down? Maybe! While still in contractionary territory (<50), the craft segment recorded its highest reading of the year in the National Beer ...

Variety packs are an interesting offering. A lot of the big- and mid-sized craft breweries shuffle them out — mostly IPA multipacks — but I’ve always been attracted to the format. The jury is still ...