When the U.S. government gave its blessing to the AB InBev, SABMiller merger, it came with the stipulation that all further acquisitions of craft beer brands by Big Beer brands… Read More

Where there is charity and wisdom, there is neither fear nor ignorance. That’s a quote from Francis of Assisi, an Italian saint from the 12th and 13th century. Saintly types… Read More

The craft beer market is changing, but it’s definitely still growing (despite everything else you hear). How do we know? Well, new mid-year data released by the Brewers Association (BA)… Read More

Beer is a place. Beer is a culture, a city and a people. Brainy brands understand how to embrace backstories of community with their products. The best beers can even… Read More

One of AB InBev’s most recent acquisitions, Devils Backbone Brewing, is making its next moves. Founded by Steve Crandall and his wife Heidi after a skiing trip where they had… Read More

I dare you to find a group of business owners that are more willing and eager to make their businesses sustainable than craft brewers. I’ll even up the stakes: I’ll… Read More

The lead for this story has been the same for the last five years and will likely remain the same for the next several: There are more craft breweries than… Read More

New York has set its course in the world of alcohol production — it wants more local producers, and it wants them to use local ingredients. To do that as… Read More

With 4,600+ craft breweries, and with only so many hop puns that are mathematically possible, trademark issues are inevitable. Luckily, many of these disputes are never made public as the… Read More

The Pennslyvania alcohol industry is going through a big regulatory revamp. We went over the high points of the Liquore Modernization Bill here. You’ll notice at the end of that,… Read More