VinePair

DECEMBER 29, 2023

In a year when some breweries closed and others bought golf courses , when hazy IPAs matured and New Jersey‘s governor did exactly the opposite, a cornucopia of new beers came out (and promptly got checked in). So, what new brews impressed and refreshed in 2023? It’s a gorgeous and artfully crafted beer, and it’s a lot of fun to drink.”

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Dry Atlas

JULY 31, 2024

By Mike Gurr, Vice President of Operations at Gruvi For 15 years, I was deeply immersed in the world of craft beer. My trajectory in the beer industry—marked first by unbridled enthusiasm, a period of stagnation, and then great uncertainty—in many ways mirrors the industry’s own evolution.

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Cheers

OCTOBER 22, 2024

Beer sales have been less than desirable as of late, to put it mildly. beer industry’s volume consumption decreased 4.4% in 2023 to 2.68 Just two beer segments — imported and flavored malt beverages (FMBs) — achieved any volume growth and that wasn’t enough to offset the significant decline of other domestic beer categories.

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VinePair

DECEMBER 2, 2024

He founded Drinkwell , a website that sells alcoholic drinks that are lower in calories, sugar, and carbs, back in 2012, and Skinny Brands, a company producing low-calorie beer, in 2015. Bell says that British customers want less of the calories, but all of the alcohol. percent beers,” says McFarland. So what’s going on?

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VinePair

JANUARY 18, 2024

One year ago, I took to VinePair’s digital pages to rebuke craft beer brewers and enthusiasts who spent this popular annual rite of abstinence complaining about breweries’ lost sales on social media. You know that drinkers want flavorful non-alcoholic beverages during Dry January. Are you ready? OK, here goes. There you have it.)

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VinePair

DECEMBER 27, 2023

If you compiled all of the headlines covering craft beer over the past 12 months and gave your summation on the state of the industry, you might grumble something about a Bob Dylan song in between sips of your Flavortown spiked fruit punch. ” —Joe Stange, managing editor at Craft Beer & Brewing Blindhouse Beer Roanoke, Va.

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PubClub

DECEMBER 18, 2023

Photo: Original 40 Brewing Company San Diego has a pair of new craft beers, one of them a 9.0 AVB (alcohol-by-volume) double IPA. Original 40 was voted as one of San Diego’s Best Micro Brew Pubs in The San Diego Union-Tribune ’s 2023 Readers Poll. Special beer-pairing or wine-pairing dinners are also available.

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Guys Drinking Beer - Beer News

JANUARY 2, 2024

Subscribe now Did any Chicagoland beer maker have a better 2024 than Funkytown ? WTTW had them on to talk about their efforts in bringing Black cultural influences into craft beer. The Free Press rounded up their favorite dozen Michigan beers of 2023 , which include offerings from Broad Leaf, Battle Alley and Burzurk.

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VinePair

MARCH 25, 2024

American pharmaceutical, cannabis, and consumer packaged goods company Tilray stunned the craft beer community in August 2023 when it purchased eight brands from beverage giant Anheuser-Busch InBev for a cool $85 million. This grab left many industry professionals scratching their heads. ounce single cans.

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VinePair

JANUARY 3, 2024

With 2023 in the rearview, it’s time to look ahead and ponder what 2024 will have in store. Will more breweries close their doors as the craft beer industry plateaus? Perhaps non-alcoholic products aren’t so much for sober people, but rather drinkers looking to have a night off by enjoying these beverages.

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VinePair

JANUARY 30, 2024

percent of the market during 2023. It’s one of the only alcoholic drinks that looks really good in a photo,” says Ian Ryan, author of “ A Beautiful Pint: One Man’s Search for the Perfect Pint of Guinness ,” out in the U.S. As a category, stout grew from 6.9 It’s a remarkable turnaround. later this month.

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Good Spirits News

DECEMBER 3, 2023

Brooklyn Brewery and Four Roses Distillery recently unveiled the 2023 edition of Brooklyn Black Ops (12% ABV). This collaboration once again unites craft beer pioneer Brooklyn Brewery with bourbon icon, Kentucky-based Four Roses Distillery for their fifth annual release, now available throughout the U.S.

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VinePair

JANUARY 23, 2024

Among them are some of the more hype-y styles shaking up the industry since the craft beer boom. Some people scoff at these popular beers, while others line up to snag the first tastes of them. The beer industry had a difficult year in 2023, and perhaps some of its stalwarts are beginning to feel a bit stale.

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VinePair

MAY 9, 2024

Craft spirits demand “reached a fever pitch during the pandemic,” Spoelman says. At that point, he explains, the rate of alcohol sales across the board slowed dramatically. Although One Eight attempted a rebrand and marketing push in 2023, it was too little, too late. That lasted until November 2022.”

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Dry Atlas

SEPTEMBER 25, 2024

By Ricki Crowley, Founder of celi I’ve had non-alcoholic beers around the world—at sunset in Santa Marta on the Caribbean Sea, at the foot of the Trevi fountain in Rome (one euro lighter), and on a cliff in Dubrovnik moments before a seventh impulse tattoo. You’re also missing out on revenue.

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Cheers

OCTOBER 21, 2024

Writing this feature in 2024, I’m tempted to recycle a similar piece I did on craft beer circa 2017. It’s not uncommon to say that the whiskey industry is five to seven years behind craft beer in terms of trends. Will the industry fall into a similar trap as what has happened with craft beer?

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VinePair

DECEMBER 6, 2023

Since the dawn of craft beer, bars have played a pivotal role in the boom of American brewing. Nowhere is this more true than at the more specialized spots: the beer bars, as we know them, with their thoughtful selections across tap lines and bottle lists, and their dedication to service, atmosphere, and education.

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Imbibe Magazine

MAY 22, 2024

Integrating activities creates “a healthier approach to alcohol.” In fall 2023, Elliott Kaplan, Jessica Hardie, and Dana Ebert turned a former bakery in Portland, Oregon, into TPK Brewing , with tabletop roleplaying games on deck. People now play sports “pretty much from sunup to sundown,” Ashburn says.

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VinePair

DECEMBER 14, 2023

Charged Lemonade is a non-alcoholic beverage and, as far as I know, Panera has yet to try to ford the alcohol-by-volume Rubicon with a hard-drink spinoff of any of its popular beverages. ounce, 12-percent alcohol-by-volume can. Caffeine is considered GRAS in non-alcoholic beverages like Panera’s Charged Lemonades.

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Dry Atlas

NOVEMBER 21, 2023

Ale Ales are brewed with top-fermenting yeast (Saccharomyces cerevisiae), which operates at warmer temperatures and tends to produce a variety of esters and other secondary flavors and aromas, often resulting in a beer with a more complex taste. What is Non-Alcoholic Beer? But what exactly is non-alcoholic beer?

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Guys Drinking Beer - Beer News

JANUARY 5, 2024

Then, snap a photo and post it to social media, tagging an Illinois craft brewery and including # MyILBeerFridge. Sending you to the tweet from Beer Baron Chris Drosner on this as he’s the writer closest (physically, at least) to this Wisconsin story, but there’s naturally plenty of chatter about this today. Check it out.

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Cheers

JUNE 19, 2024

What began years ago as an increased interest in sophisticated wines, craft beer and American whiskey has now blossomed into a common consumer sentiment towards most alcohol categories. Wine and craft beer encouraged people to play inside a category. The results speak for themselves. Couvreur says.

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PubClub

OCTOBER 15, 2024

What I particularly love is how the five local Gold Medal winners from this year were all different than the five from 2023. The quality of craft beer is certainly spread throughout the County.

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Cheers

DECEMBER 7, 2023

As the no/low-alc trend continues throughout the industry , craft beer pioneer Sierra Nevada Brewing Co. Both begin hitting shelves in December 2023. Our innovation brewers have been working for years to perfect a flavorful, satisfying non-alcoholic brew,” says Lesley Albright, VP of Marketing at Sierra Nevada Brewing Co. “We

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VinePair

AUGUST 20, 2024

While the light beer wars may be a thing of the past, the numbers suggest that light beer continues to win battles. In 2023, light beer hit a global market valuation of $312.9 There’s nothing odd or remarkable about the style compared to what exists in the craft beer space, and that’s likely why they’re so popular.

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VinePair

MARCH 12, 2024

Hoarding is familiar behavior in beverage alcohol, from loading car trunks with Tree House IPAs or stocking cellars with bourbon from W.L. Busch Light Apple helped pave the way for Busch Light Peach,” Stowe wrote of the replacement, which debuted in 2023. I stockpiled it just so I would have it.” I liked having it on hand,” he says.

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The Whiskey Wash

JULY 27, 2024

The recent change in legislation by the Alcohol and Tobacco Tax and Trade Bureau, which states that American single malt whiskey does not need to be aged in virgin American white oak casks, has opened up many doors for producers. The distillery was founded in 2004 and strives to represent the distilling culture of the Pacific Northwest.

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VinePair

JANUARY 21, 2024

Today, the restaurant serves up classic Hawaiian dishes and was even awarded the James Beard American Classics award in 2023. The restaurant relocated to its present location in the Oregon Pioneer Building in 1910 and was able to stay operational during Prohibition by selling illicit alcohol in coffee cups.

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VinePair

JANUARY 1, 2024

craft beer production has more or less plateaued in recent years, the NA market continues to explode. According to Global Market Insights , the NA beer market was valued at over $22 billion in 2022, and is expected to nearly double over the next 10 years. Although U.S. Let’s just say we’ve come a long way from O’Doul’s.

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VinePair

DECEMBER 7, 2023

China’s thirst for American craft beer hasn’t yet peaked (unlike Americans’ own) and its drinkers’ interest is piqued. China’s higher-end beer market also returned to growth in [the first half of] 2023 vs 2022, boosted by strong performances from local brands, and from international products in the reopening on-premise.”

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VinePair

JANUARY 11, 2024

2023 data aren’t available yet, though you can rest assured that BA chief economist Bart Watson is on the case. For other craft breweries, that kind of new tank space might be a liability in this economy. At Good Beer Hunting, Kate Bernot reports that just 25 percent of the company’s volume is beer, and none of it under its own banner.

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VinePair

JANUARY 5, 2024

Sure, the American beer business got it from all directions in 2023 , and I think there’s more trouble ahead. April 1, 2024 will mark a year since Dylan Mulvaney posted the innocuous Instagram video that became pretense for the conservative shitfit that dominated mainstream-media headlines for much of 2023. Boston Beer Co.’s

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Cheers

OCTOBER 11, 2024

The Unsteady State of Beer Even though the Golden State event was filled with speeches and presentations on the beer category’s resilience, there’s no denying the fear that permeated the walls of the Manchester Grand Hyatt hotel. The beer market is still struggling — there’s no denying it. Take the 2018 Farm Bill, for example.

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VinePair

FEBRUARY 8, 2024

Heineken pitched its non-alcoholic line extension in an “Ant-Man” collaboration so lazy it’s making me mad to think about it a year later. Budweiser: I was wrong when I predicted that ABI would force the King of Beers to fully abdicate its one-time throne after benching the brand for Super Bowl LV in 2021. But maybe it should have?

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Imbibe Magazine

JANUARY 11, 2025

The alcohol-free category continues to thrive. Spirit-free bars and bottle shops are popping up across the United States, and curious consumers can now peruse aisles of zero-proof spirits, wine, beer, and RTDs. Before they knew it, they were crafting alcohol-free beverages to educate the curious about new products.

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Imbibe Magazine

MARCH 3, 2025

All alcohol-containing beers are taken off the taplist for this monthly event, and bartenders instead serve the brewerys Two Frays Near Beer. Lockdown alcohol consumption, where Zoom happy hours might occur any hour, couldnt last forever. A Fresh Squeezed Non-Alcoholic IPA from Deschutes Brewery in Bend, Oregon.

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VinePair

JANUARY 2, 2025

In 2024, the number of craft breweries that closed was bigger than the number of those that opened. The bubble hasnt burst, craft beer isnt dead. The American craft brewing industrys closure rate was an ahistorical monkey on its back, and now its gone. Bernstein titled Has the Craft Beer Industrys Keg Finally Kicked?

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