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Is There a Craft Beer Slowdown?
Editor's Note: this is part of our series looking back on how the major beer categories performed in 2016. Be sure to check out our review of how imported beers fared in 2016.
Is the...
The Fastest Growing Beer Brands of 2016
It's no secret that the overall beer industry has been lagging, as the macro brands continue to lose ground and the craft sector feels the pain of oversaturation and increasing competition. New brands, styles...
What’s Behind the Rise of Heavy Beers
Back in the days when mainstream lager owned the beer market, a persistent urban myth held that Canadian beer—if you could get it—wasn’t like ours. It was really strong. Turns out it wasn’t: their...
Are Millennials Bad for the Beer Industry?
Hard to believe that Millennials might be a problem for the beer industry. After all, it's their curious palates that kick started the craft movement that began with microbrews and then expanded into all other...
What Is ‘Craft Beer’ Anymore?
We are nearly four decades into the movement that transformed American beer. It was begun by enthusiasts who were bored with pale lagers, or keen to recreate at home the variety of beer styles...
Jim Koch In NYTimes: Consolidation Threatens Craft Beer
Has Big Beer finally gotten the upper hand over the craft movement?
Industry pioneer Jim Koch fears so. In an op-ed column published in the New York Times this past weekend, the founder of the Boston Beer Company worries that continued...
Amstel Announces Amstel Xlight ‘Sessionable’ Light Beer
Heineken USA has announce the launch of Amstel Xlight.
With only 90 calories, two grams of carbs, 4.2% ABV and 4 IBUs, Amstel Xlight is a "sessnionable" light beer, the company says.
Beginning March 1, the new...
6 Craft Beer Stats To Watch in 2017
What stats and trends will define craft beer in 2017? For the answer, look back at 2016, when the category faced a conundrum.
On one hand, the craft beer business continued to expand in 2016....
‘Pay-To-Play’ Beer Distribution Case In Mass Could Spur National Crackdown
A federal penalty levied against a Massachusetts beer distributor for "pay-to-play" practices has the U.S. government threatening a nationwide crackdown on the practice.
A distributor in the state was caught last year giving funds to...
The 2016 Beer Growth Brands: Fastest Growing Beers, Ciders and FMB Brands
The biggest story in beer this past year was soda—hard soda, to be exact. The success of Not Your Father’s Root Beer, which is categorized as a craft beer, started a craze for spiked...