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Coffee Stouts at Covenhoven Although craftbeer bars may be a slowly dying breed in the modern metropolitan landscape, its nice to see that some institutions have managed to navigate the rough seas and perpetuate excitement around craftbeer in 2025. Brooklyns Covenhoven is, without a doubt, one of those spots.
moorsbeer A post shared by @moorsbeer They’ve been added to our Chicagoland CraftBeer Map. On February 15, the newly created American CraftBeer Hall of Fame will announce their inaugural inductees. Bookmark it if you haven’t already.
Total beverage alcohol e-commerce sales are expected to grow 66% by 2025, reaching $42 billion annually. This category is currently the fastest-growing product in the industry and is expected to earn an additional 8% of the market by 2025. Craft spirits are seeing growth as consumers seek unique and locally produced options.
Today, we’re bringing you an exclusive first look at this year’s CraftBeer Week pint glass, courtesy of the Illinois Craft Brewers Guild. The biggest story in Midwestern craftbeer this week? Coming (in 2025?) Good news: You only have to check in to a couple of them to get some free stuff.
At a craftbeer bar in Brooklyn called Queue Beer , all of the 24 taps feature premium and hard-to-find beers but one tap faucet stands apart from the rest. Its a top-of-the-line, Czech-made Lukr side-pull faucet. For one, its a mass-produced product that is actually good.
That location is undergoing a remodel due to open in January 2025. Renovated Downtown San Diego Karl Strauss Brewpub To Open In January While Karl Strauss has several locations in Southern California, its original is in San Diego on the border of downtown and Little Italy just up from the Santa Fe train station on Columbia Street.
All of them have been gathered together for a project that’s the brainchild of Charolette Converse that will see 113 women, non-binary or trans participants (as of publish time) joining together to not just make a one-off beer, but to create a community to “network, educate and inspire their fellow women in the craftbeer industry.”
At this stage, the company is working on securing additional funding, Standaert says, with a goal of putting out an expanded prototype for commercial use in 2025. A beer sommelier with a certificate from the Doemens Academy in Munich, Roland Graber is a co-owner of Riot Act Brewing and the craftbeer bar On Tap in Bern, Switzerland.
ounce nips, I grasped the use case of NBBs upcoming release slated to hit stores in March 2025 right off the rip. Its not an occasion where beer has traditionally excelled, on account of its low alcohol-by-volume and infinitely higher carbonation level compared to liquor. (A
revbrewchicago A post shared by @revbrewchicago I’ve updated our Chicagoland CraftBeer Map , and that was a real bummer of a “delete” button to have to press. After 15 years, the Wisconsin Brewers Guild is moving locations and changing the name of the Wisconsin Beer Lovers Festival for 2025.
Paul in 2025. Racket asks : “Did THC Beverages Save MN CraftBeer?” one of the state’s oldest craft breweries, is set to open a new taproom outside Columbus this week. ” Maumee Bay Brewing Co. ,
BrewDog to become the Official Beer Partner to Lord’s Cricket Ground from January 2025 In a landmark move for the brand, today, BrewDog is delighted to announce its new partnership with Marylebone Cricket Club (MCC) to be the Official Beer Partner at Lord’s Cricket Ground, in a four-year deal which starts early in the new year.
High inventory levels are expected to persist into 2024 and potentially beyond, with normalization now not expected until 2025 or early 2026,” says president of the U.S. IWSR predicts that excess inventory will likely have a continued effect on the market over the next few years. division at IWSR Marten Lodewijks.
We’re definitely going to talk more about the history of Labatt in our marketing and promotions in 2024 and 2025,” Folaron says. Younger consumers are looking for heritage in brands, but in a unique and updated way.” “It makes people feel good about the beer.” founded in 1937) and CraftBeers of Canada.
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.
While anyone who understands economic bubbles knows the craftbeer industry isnt set up for an impending nosedive, there is a kernel of truth there: Whenever theres tremendous growth in a given industry, at some point, theres going to be a pullback. What weve witnessed over the past few years is craftbeer pulling back.
Beer professionals on either side of the bar carefully follow whos doing what and have strong opinions about which beer makers you should keep an eye on going forward. What stands out in 2025? Alexander Gates, beer judge and writer , Honolulu, Hawaii. Their reasons are various. Cerebral Brewing Denver, Colo.
With that in mind, we asked 16 beer professionals to name their most overrated beer styles for 2025. Most NA beers on the market are poor representatives of craftbeer. Hazy IPA is one of two most overrated beer styles in my opinion (the second being fruited blonde ales). Asheville, N.C.
In Boston’s competitive craftbeer market, Harpoon distinguishes itself as a legacy brand. ” Harpoon also stands out with large-scale beer festivals held at its Boston Seaport brewery, drawing tens of thousands annually. Toothman emphasizes Harpoon’s dedication to innovative, regionally inspired beverages.
On this episode of the VinePair Podcast, Adam, Joanna, and Zach share some of their predictions for the drinks industry in 2025, including a return to older models of targeted marketing, continued struggles for wine and craftbeer, and the potential impact on the entire industry of the expanding use of GLP-1 medications.
The beer “is slightly sweeter and more full-bodied than German pilsners and with a slightly lower hopping rate” and has an awesome name. On February 15, the newly created American CraftBeer Hall of Fame will announce their inaugural inductees. Double Barrel night sounds like a headache-y morning would follow.
While we could sing the praises of various craftbeers until the cows come home, sometimes nothing hits like a familiar, mass-produced brew. Sure, there are many people who pride themselves on sticking to local options, but macro beers wouldnt be macros if they werent so accessible and widely beloved. My go-to macro beer is PBR.
(I got two offering me samples from “Beer Girl” just now.) An email announcing this year’s Hops for Heroes 2025 Campaign, sent by a brewery in Texas, included a mention of a participating beermaker called Great Chicago Fire Brewery. 3,000 drinkers attended the recent Mardi Gras themed Lake County CraftBeer Festival.
Julia Davis, head brewer, Burke-Gilman Brewing Company , Seattle I miss the old days of craftbeer when every sampler set looked like a rainbow of rich jewel-tone colors across the beer spectrum. whereas these types of beers lean the other way. 2025) appeared first on VinePair.
In 2024, the number of craft breweries that closed was bigger than the number of those that opened. The bubble hasnt burst, craftbeer isnt dead. The American craft brewing industrys closure rate was an ahistorical monkey on its back, and now its gone. Bernstein titled Has the CraftBeer Industrys Keg Finally Kicked?
As we head into 2025, I thought I’d take your pulse real quick, especially as we’ve added hundreds of new subscribers/friends to this group over the last year or so. If we’ve helped you be a better drinker or a more informed member of the beer/beverage industry, please consider adding your support.
Let’s support that , rather than just matching our calendars to the dates where a trade organization decided years ago where to put American CraftBeer Week. This is a perilous winter for American craft breweries. Hell, the BA doesn’t even have this year’s beer week on their calendar yet.
Fieldwork Brewing began producing beer in Berkeley, California, in 2015, and now encompasses eight taprooms in Northern California, with two more slated for 2025. In 2023, Sierra Nevada Brewing introduced two Trail Pass NA beers, an IPA and golden ale , and added a hazy IPA and the lime-infused Brewveza late last year.
On Tuesday, the Brewers Association (BA) a not-for-profit trade organization dedicated to small and independent American craft brewers announced that Bart Watson will be taking on the role of president and CEO of the organization starting January 6. Admittedly, 2024 has not been the best year for the American craftbeer industry.
As such, they’ve been added to our Chicagoland CraftBeer Map. Destination Cleveland’s brewery passport program is back for 2025 with several new options to visit , including … wait, there’s a Cleveland brewery called Crooked Pecker ? Looks like they were ready to go a little earlier.
In less fun news, we have our first Chicagoland closure of 2025: Longtime Waukegan brewer Ten Ninety has reportedly shuttered. In Scotland, The Herald has a new beer columnist with roots in Chicagoland and Indiana. Most-clicked link in last week’s email : Hop Culture’s list of the 17 breweries to watch in 2025.
[extremely Baz Luhrmann in Everybodys Free to Wear Sunscreen voice] Ladies and gentlemen of the brewing industry of 2025: Make hop water. Is it a more flavorful club soda or a brighter, lighter non-alcoholic craftbeer? If I could offer you only one tip for the future, hop water would be it. Guzzler is still an open question.
Since 2008, Costco has also offered a full line of Kirkland Signature beers, initially kicking things off with a pale ale , hefeweizen, amber ale, and German lager — very in vogue styles for that era of craftbeer. On Beer Advocate it scores a more-than-respectable 89 out of 100.
Spiteful Brewing has been at it for a long time, so I’m a bit surprised to discover that they’re holding their very first beer dinner (with Beard+Belly ) on Feburary 6th at their taproom. 7-8, Milwaukee’s Sugar Maple beer bar is turning the a Spongebob-themed “Bar-kini Bottom.” Lineup TBD.
All data Westons Cider Report 2025, CGA Strategy OPMS, P12 MAT to 30/11/2024 unless otherwise stated. The 10 th edition of the Westons Cider Report reveals how premium and crafted apple cider is shaping the on-trade landscape. Fast-forward to 2025, and that prediction has become reality. in value to 1.97 of draught cider volume.
Finally, I’m sure you’re seeing it all over your social feeds right now, but we’ll have info on the midwestern entries to the just-released CraftBeer & Brewing Best in Beer 2024 lists on Monday. Busy day so far. But there’s more! We really couldn’t do it without you.
Here are nine drinks trends we hope to never see in 2025. Innovation In Beer and Flavored Malt Beverages (FMBs) From hazy IPAs and bizarre adjuncts to pastry stouts and fruited slushie sours, theres always been innovation in craftbeer. But when it comes to clarification, enough is enough.
The 2025 date and location is Saturday, March 29 at Pechanga Arena and neighboring Bay City Brewing. The event includes a hockey game with staff members of San Diego craft breweries at 12:30 p.m., the beer-and-BBQ festival from 2- 5 p.m., The 7th annual San Diego Brewers Pucks-Pints charithy hockey game takes place March 29.
The brewer has unveiled Rebel IPA this week and will be giving away thousands of free pints at their bars in Wales Tiny Rebel, Wales largest independent brewery and a trailblazer of innovation in the UKs craftbeer scene, has just dropped a new crowning glory Rebel IPA their brand-new Session IPA. And its a game-changer.
Its probably necessary, in the aggregate, to balance the national ledgers after the second craftbeer boom , and Norfolk has plenty of breweries with deeper roots, stronger communities, and from what I hear, better beer, too. On its face, this outcome isnt surprising, even if it happened a bit faster than usual.
The craftbeer world is filled with passionate opinions and nowhere more so than among those who wield notebooks and pens. Ask any three beer writers to name the countrys single best brewery, and youre likely to get over a dozen well-argued responses, from the totally obvious to the truly arcane. August Schell Brewing Co.
RateBeer , the beer review and rating site that launched in the early 2000s and was acquired by Anheuser-Busch’s ZX Ventures in 2019, announced today that it would be shutting down on February 1, 2025.
Since its founding in 2017, Athletic Brewing Company has become one of the biggest names in the NA beer market. It may not be the first NA beer brand to hit the scene, but it was the first one to consistently capture the look, feel, and flavor of craftbeer in the NA space. beer containing less than 0.5 In the U.S.,
Demand for beer, particularly hop-heavy craftbeer, has slowed significantly in the past half-decade. Hop-ocalypse Now The modern American craft brewing business has always had a long tail a vast majority of breweries that each produce a small amount of beer on their own. hop industry may have found the bottom.
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