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

AUGUST 14, 2024

craft beer has been around so long that it’s experienced several significant booms and several subsequent busts. But through its ups and down, craft beer has proven that it is here to stay, now a part of the culinary and cultural fabric of not just American life, but life all over the world. Samuel Adams (Boston Beer Co.):

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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

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. alcohol industry. 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. The future of the U.S.

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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 post Rum Trends in 2024 appeared first on Cheers.

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VinePair

JANUARY 18, 2024

It’s a timely one, being as we’re about halfway through Dry January 2024, but it has year-round potential to bolster your bottom line and put your brand in front of new drinkers. You know that drinkers want flavorful non-alcoholic beverages during Dry January. Are you ready? OK, here goes. Make hop water , already, would you?

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Guys Drinking Beer - Beer News

JANUARY 5, 2024

Well, we made it about 60 hours into 2024 without a closing announcement. Then, snap a photo and post it to social media, tagging an Illinois craft brewery and including # MyILBeerFridge. Also, they’re actually planning on hitting retail and expanding into a second location in 2024.

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Cheers

MARCH 18, 2024

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 Craft Beers of Canada.

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Good Spirits News

FEBRUARY 26, 2024

recently announced the release of the first 2 offerings in its line of functional mushroom craft beers, a Six-mushroom IPA (8.8% These are the world’s first alcoholic brews featuring liquid extracts of single-source, sustainably harvested chaga from boreal forest birch trees in Alaska. Eden’s Harvest, Inc.

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VinePair

DECEMBER 12, 2024

ounce cans have performed so well in a tough market is the same reason BuzzBallz opted to introduce Biggies rather than Smallies: When it comes to single-serve beverage-alcohol packaging, bigger tends to be better. Veliky also pointed out that the size offers NBB a small moat because few other craft brewers can run 7.5-ounce

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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

OCTOBER 15, 2024

San Diego lived up to its title of the “Capitol of Craft” at the Great American Beer Festival San Diego breweries won 12 medals at the 2024 Great American Beer Festival in Denver, including five golds. The quality of craft beer is certainly spread throughout the County.

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PubClub

DECEMBER 8, 2023

“We have the best views in town for ringing in 2024,” said Hilton Complex General Manager Peter Hart. If you don’t know what to get off the libations menu, Cityscape’s signature drink is the Buzz Bar alcoholic popsicle, which is submerged in a glass of sparkling white wine. Cocktail attire is requested.

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VinePair

MAY 31, 2024

beer market will expand significantly. In 2021, the alcohol conglomerate announced a strategic partnership with the Boston-based brewery to use Suntory-owned spirits in BBC’s portfolio of RTDs and to formulate bottled Truly Vodka. If the deal comes to fruition, Suntory’s presence on the U.S.

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Bar Magazine

FEBRUARY 26, 2024

Greene King Brewery is launching two new craft beers, Hazy Day and Prior Life, into the market this month as it looks to grow its craft portfolio further. This beer is a tribute to the original Bury St Edmunds master brewers, the Benedictine monks, whose ghosts are said to still walk the Abbey today.

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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. Blue Peak was awarded a Double Gold medal at the 2024 DISC Awards. You can see a full list here.

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Dry Atlas

FEBRUARY 28, 2024

Ten years ago—when non-alc beer meant O’Douls—Philip Brandes started to reshape the non-alc narrative with craft brews that rival their alcoholic counterparts in taste. For readers who associate non-alc beer with O’Douls, can you talk about why what you do is different? I was a lonely software developer.

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Dry Atlas

FEBRUARY 28, 2024

Ten years ago—when non-alc beer meant O’Douls—Philip Brandes started to reshape the non-alc narrative with craft brews that rival their alcoholic counterparts in taste. For readers who associate non-alc beer with O’Douls, can you talk about why what you do is different? I was a lonely software developer.

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PubClub

MARCH 21, 2024

Made locally by NOVA, it is 8% alcohol-by-volume (ABV) and has a flavor profile of mango and lime. Official viewing parties for Padres road games will be held at NOVO sports pubs with dates for the 2024 season to be announced in the coming weeks.

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Imbibe Magazine

AUGUST 26, 2024

It was pigeonholed as a drink for kids,” says Alex Doman, the co-founder and CEO of AVEC Drinks , which makes an alcohol-free cider flavored with cardamom. Craft beer distorts the concept of locality. People aren’t beer drinkers, cider drinkers, wine drinkers, or spirit drinkers,” says co-founder Larsen.“They’re

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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. 2024) appeared first on VinePair. With that being said, my vote would go for New Zealand pilsners.

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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. Is 2024 the year that Great Lakes Brewing Company moves out of Cleveland for more space in the suburbs? Let me know. Happy Dry January!

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VinePair

JANUARY 5, 2024

In no particular order below are my top picks for the major commercial and cultural storylines that will reshape the brewing industry — for worse, or better — in 2024. The blue-and-yellow gas-station stalwart had a colossal sales run in 2023, cementing its star position in Boston Beer Co.’s Not to mention Angry Orchard.) Stay tuned.

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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. You could be forgiven for hoping for a better showing in 2024 from America’s brewing titans and the agencies that serve their advertising needs. The top slot went to a dog food brand. Flukes happen!

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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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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. 30, 2024, according to the U.S.

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VinePair

JULY 17, 2024

Hipster beer also existed as the antidote of craft cocktail and craft beer pretentiousness. If I’m thinking about what made PBR explode, it’s that intersection of economics and flavor,” says Karl Klockars, author of “ Beer Lover’s Chicago ” and co-founder of craft beer review site Guys Drinking Beer.

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VinePair

JANUARY 3, 2025

Maybe it evolves into a year of alcohol abstinence, or perhaps zebra striping becomes the new norm when the weekends roll around. Whatever the case may be, anyone opting to put down the booze for a while is in luck, as the non-alcoholic beer market is absolutely booming right now. percent in 2023.

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VinePair

DECEMBER 17, 2024

2024 was an interesting year for the drinks industry. We bore witness to the continued decline of craft brewing and watched as beloved brands like Duckhorn , The Famous Grouse , and Charles Smith Wines changed hands. Just look at the success of Montucky Cold Snacks , a self-described beer-flavored beer.

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VinePair

NOVEMBER 12, 2024

To that end, we asked nine brewers to name the industry trends they believe have jumped the shark in 2024. Beer used to be about bringing people together and forgetting about your troubles. ” —Daniel Munoz, co-founder, Everywhere Beer , Orange, Calif. Non-alcoholic (NA) beers. Here’s what they had to say.

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VinePair

JANUARY 9, 2025

Hop water in its simplest form, your standard non-alcoholic seltzer infused with hops is a rare sighting on store shelves across the country. I like non-alcoholic beer just fine, but its hard to make and caloric to drink. Is it a more flavorful club soda or a brighter, lighter non-alcoholic craft beer?

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VinePair

MAY 8, 2025

There used to be a fierce semantic debate over what constituted craft beer. As the BAs chief economist Matt Gacioch told attendees of a data session at the Craft Brewers Conference in Indianapolis late last month, when shopping for beverage alcohol, consumers are chasing flavors rather than specific products.

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VinePair

JANUARY 23, 2025

None of MCs craft acquisitions wound up back in their founders hands; four joined ABIs also-rans on Tilray Brands island of misfit microbreweries in 2024. Jacques wrote in an August 2024 memo to wholesalers obtained by Brewbound. The fifth, Leinenkugels, was not included in the deal. percent in volume.

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VinePair

DECEMBER 24, 2024

According to Mark Van Pee, who has been tracking brewery numbers for consumer group Zythos for the past decade, Belgian brewings modern peak came in 2022 , when there were 430 physical breweries and 309 beer companies, which dont own brewing equipment. Thirty-six breweries closed last year; 31 more have followed in 2024. for example.

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VinePair

JANUARY 25, 2024

A reliable punchline in the American craft beer industry is that premium craft lagers are just about to catch on. Cider is no punchline, but it simply doesn’t punch at the same weight as the United States’ mainstream beverage-alcohol categories. Beer was +1.4 2024, though, man? Cider was up 1.9

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VinePair

MAY 5, 2025

Craft beer was just on the precipice of booming. billion in revenue in 2024, according to the Distilled Spirit Council , just a hair behind vodkas $7.2 If your bottle is only 40 percent alcohol the rest of its contents are mostly water, he says. The cocktail renaissance was on the horizon, too.

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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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