Booze Business

JULY 9, 2024

IWSR predicts a 2023-27 value compound annual growth rate (CAGR) of 7% for online alcohol sales in the U.S., billion in 2023 and is expected to reach $28.6 Craft and Artisanal Products: While the craft beer boom has somewhat stabilized, there’s still strong interest in craft and artisanal products across all alcohol categories.

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Chilled Magazine

JANUARY 31, 2024

5000 List of the fastest growing private companies in America for four consecutive years – 2020, 2021, 2022 and 2023, as well as receiving the 2022 Shanken Communications’ Impact Hot Brand Award, the 2023 Growth Brand Awards from Beverage Information Group, and the 2023 PR%F the Magazine Distillery of the Year award.

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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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VinePair

APRIL 16, 2024

On Tuesday, the Brewers Association (BA) released its annual overview of the craft brewing industry and a list of the 50 top-producing craft brewing companies of 2023. craft breweries reached an all-time high, with 9,683 operational across all 50 states and Washington D.C. Last year, the number of U.S. percent from 2022.

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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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Australian Bartender

NOVEMBER 18, 2024

But don’t worry if you’re not up for the fancy stuff—Bar Love keeps it real with a good mix of craft beers and classic cocktails, all served with a healthy dose of fun. Mix Haus’s efforts to promote inclusivity and diversity earned her the prestigious ‘Industry Leader’ award at the 2023 WA Good Food Guide Awards.

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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 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. AVB (alcohol-by-volume) double IPA.

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VinePair

JUNE 5, 2024

Pastry stouts — sweet, saccharine, indulgent beers built on flavors more common to a bakery than a brewery — emerged toward the end of last decade as a coveted, if occasionally maligned, pseudo-style of craft beer. But who can we thank for the advent of the modern marvel that is the pastry stout?

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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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Cheers

AUGUST 7, 2024

World of Beer, which at the end of 2023 operated 42 locations, was founded in 2007 and is known for its serious craft beer selection. Each location offers about 500 beers by the can or bottle and 50 on draft. The company blames rising costs and slower sales due to a slow pandemic recovery, according to reports.

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VinePair

OCTOBER 10, 2024

2023 was a tough year for the American brewing industry, with overall beer production and imports down 5 percent year-over-year. But despite the doom and gloom surrounding the future of beer, Americans are still drinking their fair share of the stuff. According to beer shipment data and U.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

AUGUST 13, 2024

This acquisition will bring Tilray’s craft brewery count up to 20. “We are excited to welcome the employees and distributors behind these craft beer brands which will play a pivotal role in the growth of Tilray Beverages,” president of Tilray Beverages North America Ty Gilmore said in the release.

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VinePair

JULY 29, 2024

As demand for craft beer spiked throughout the 2010s, breweries expanded to slake drinkers’ seemingly endless thirst for IPAs. “We In 2023, Ross pivoted to Mamaroneck, N.Y., The breweries also created a collaborative brand, New York Craft Coalition, that doubled as the business name. In hindsight it was a mistake.”

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VinePair

JANUARY 30, 2024

percent of the market during 2023. ShitLondonGuinness’s success also reflects a mild nerdiness about the beer — encouraged and reinforced by decades of Guinness marketing — that puts it somewhere between “stack it up, sell it cheap” macro lager and the fussier end of the craft-beer market. It’s a remarkable turnaround.

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VinePair

DECEMBER 2, 2024

percent beers,” says McFarland. Flavor First The craft beer movement made big (and largely accurate) claims about raising quality standards, and that’s now reflected on British bar-tops. Some of the big-name, low-carb beers that have come to the U.K. Our message is: ‘You can have a great tasting, low-calorie beer.’”

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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. After all, getting drinkers (other than me) to pay craft beer prices for not-craft beer is no mean feat.

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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? Will wine proceed to erode as a restaurant mainstay? We can’t make any guarantees, but we certainly think it’s in the cards.

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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.

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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

JUNE 12, 2024

1 selling craft light beer in Ohio, Kentucky, and Indiana, and it continues to expand its reach across the country. Forbes reported in November 2023 that the brand’s sales were up 252 percent over the previous year, showing impressive growth in an increasingly grim market for craft beer. The brand is the No.

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Drinkhacker

SEPTEMBER 9, 2024

Due to Chico’s ease of mutation, the Chico yeast utilized by Westward is likely not fully identical to the yeast that started the American craft brewing revolution. However, Chico remains the most widely used yeast strain among the American craft beer industry.

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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

MAY 9, 2024

Although One Eight attempted a rebrand and marketing push in 2023, it was too little, too late. Fewer people are choosing to enter the industry, too; the Craft Spirits Data Project shows that the rate of growth in distilled spirits permits in the first eight months of 2023, the latest figures available, was 1.6

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VinePair

MARCH 27, 2024

What does diversity have to do with craft beer? But things are changing in the American craft brewing business, thanks in no small part to the tireless efforts of Dr. J” joins “Taplines” to reflect on that moment — not only a pivotal one in her own career, but also in the trajectory of the craft beer industry at large.

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Guys Drinking Beer - Beer News

NOVEMBER 27, 2023

Not only did they have a wide variety of variants available for purchase, they also had beers from last year available too. So I am now the proud owner of a 2022 BCS Coffee and a 2023 BCS Bananas Foster. PorchDrinking has a really nice profile of Funkytown Brewing with a look at their big successes in 2023. in Minnesota.

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VinePair

OCTOBER 17, 2024

So in 2023, he pounced on the opportunity to join the opening team at GOAL. Now, as head brewer and director of beer operations there, Gallanosa straddles the responsibilities of brewing, marketing, and sales management. Credit: Kimberly Motos “The focus of the beers I produce at GOAL. Brewing back home.

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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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VinePair

JUNE 26, 2024

Although last year’s domestic alcohol sales were pretty grim, most are referring to 2023 as a reset year for the U.S. According to the IWSR, inventory levels skyrocketed between December 2019 and December 2023 due to a jump in consumer demand during the height of the pandemic, and then further bolstered by supply chain disruptions.

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Guys Drinking Beer - Beer News

JANUARY 8, 2024

Per the Chicago Defender , one of the stories that defined Chicago in 2023 was the story of Moor’s Brewing Company. ICBG ED Ray Stout went on WBBM radio to talk about this month’s My Illinois Beer Fridge promotion. Subscribe now Patch covered the news that Elder Brewing was closing , as does Shaw Local and WBBM radio.

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Guys Drinking Beer - Beer News

JANUARY 5, 2024

Apparently the initial beer menu that Doug included in his post kicked off a kerfuffle large enough to justify this whole Paste Magazine story about craft beer pricing, which focuses on Other Half asking $16 for a pint in Bridgeport. Check it out. Thanks to the outcry on Xitter, looks like prices have already been right-sized.

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Imbibe Magazine

MAY 22, 2024

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. Putting fantasy games front and center can foster the rare reality: a more inclusive brewery experience.

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Guys Drinking Beer - Beer News

DECEMBER 18, 2023

The Brewers Association released their annual Year in Beer recap and even though we entered the year in a far less locked down world, “All signs point to production being down in 2023 — a first (excluding a unique 2020) for independent brewers.” ” Cool! Their numbers show 420 opened, and 385 closed.

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VinePair

FEBRUARY 15, 2024

Anchor finds it ironic that Boston Beer feels its training is so special and unique. We think they must have short memories of the time they spent here at Anchor gaining first-hand knowledge of how craft beer was working. Time has passed and things have changed in the American craft brewing industry.

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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. It’s rich, roasty, and packs an almost chewy mouthfeel.

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