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 independent, family-owned K. Spoetzl Brewery recently announced a landmark addition to its 116-year legacy: Shiner Bock Non-Alcoholic. This historic new release is inspired by the original Shiner ...

The National Beer Wholesalers Association’s Beer Purchasers’ Index (BPI) for November 2025 shows another month of weak distributor demand across the beer category. The overall BPI landed at 25, up ...

Samuel Adams just dropped the 14th vintage of its genre-defying Utopias beer — and this one’s historic. Utopias 2025 clocks in at 30% ABV, making it one of the strongest beers ever brewed and ...

This former Two Hound Red Brewery location will be Maplewood Brewery’s new spot in spring 2026. Chicago’s Maplewood Brewery & Distillery announced plans to open a second location in Glen Ellyn, ...

The taxable removals estimate reflects beer volumes shipped from U.S. breweries and subject to federal excise tax. These numbers are a reliable gauge of overall industry health. Throughout 2025, those ...

Cincinnati’s Fifty West Brewing is finding statewide momentum with Sunflower, a hemp-derived THC seltzer that reflects shifting consumer habits away from alcohol What started as a taproom experiment ...

One of Iowa’s largest and most community-driven breweries is planting roots in the Kansas City metro. Big Grove Brewery announced plans to open a new taproom and brewery in Prairie Village, Kansas, in ...

Gallup’s 2025 Consumption Habits survey found just 54% of U.S. adults say they drink alcohol. That’s the lowest rate Gallup has recorded in nearly 90 years of tracking. It marks three straight years ...

Despite widespread acreage cuts, the global hop market remains oversupplied. The newly released BarthHaas Report 2024/2025 confirms a third straight year of decline in planted hectares, with growers ...

The metaphorical craft beer pipeline. The Brewers Association’s 2025 Midyear Report shows an industry still facing strong headwinds. Yet, pockets of growth remain — especially for the smallest on-site ...

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 ...