Alcohol e-commerce and on-demand delivery platform Drizly released its third annual BevAlc Insights by Drizly Retail Report, culled from a nationwide survey of over 500 alcohol retailers during November 2021, and it looks like craft beer is poised to reclaim shelf space from hard seltzer in 2022.
Total beverage alcohol eCommerce sales across key global markets are expected to grow by 66% over five years, reaching more than $42bn, according to new data from IWSR Drinks Market Analysis.
One of the great things about the independent beer scene is the variety of craft beer options you can enjoy. Whether it’s a brewpub down the street, a microbrewery that’s getting a lot of buzz, or a nano brewery that just opened, there is always a new craft brewery to try, and we want to make finding those places easy. We’ve given you the option to search by state, click on the “breweries near me” button or search for a brewery or brewpub by name, city or state.
Subtle, nuanced flavors have taken center stage in recent years: but this is set to change in 2022 with a shift to bigger and bolder profiles, according to beverage development company Flavorman.
As it launches the alcohol-free version of its flagship brew on draught, Heineken predicts there will be as many Heineken 0.0 taps as there are Heineken Original by 2025.
If you’ve read the beer trade press in recent weeks, you might have the sense that May was not a great month for the craft category. And, if your frame is scan data and your only comparison is 2020, you’d be right. That said, this is a reminder that 2020 was not a normal year, and so reporting scan data versus 2020 may not, in fact, really provide that much context for the beer category or sub-categories within the beer category.
The National Beer Wholesalers Association (NBWA) has just released the Beer Purchasers’ Index (BPI) for May 2021. The data shows a significant difference to the BPI in May 2020 which illustrated the serious impact of COVID-19 on the beer industry.
India Pale Ales, Session beers, Imperial Ports, Stouts, Sours and Lagers – the variety in craft beer styles can go on forever. Despite the craft beer industry being severely impacted by the covid-19 pandemic, craft beer is still proving itself to be a growth sector in the beer brewing industry as a whole.
Last year in 2020, there were a total of nearly 9,000 breweries spread across the United States. The number of companies brewing beer has been steadily increasing since 2012. Breweries can be categorised as a craft brewery, large craft brewery and non-craft brewery.