The report reveals that 89% of consumers now prefer ready-to-drink (RTD) beverages. RTDs offer convenience and appeal to a broad audience. Escoffier’s analysis projects that the RTD cocktail market ...

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 ...

NOTE: This is not a picture of Vera hops. There are currently no photos available, so all the photos in this post are random hops. We suggest you use your imagination.

The Brewers Association has released its annual rankings of the top 50 U.S. craft brewing companies by beer sales volume. The 2024 list reflects a changing landscape, where resilience, regional power, ...

The latest hop reports, focused on 2024 production, from the USDA-NASS National Hop Report and the HGA Statistical Packet reveal critical insights about hop production, acreage, varieties and costs ...

The global brewing industry contracted again in 2024. According to the just-released BarthHaas Report 2024/2025, the world’s 40 largest brewing groups produced a combined 1.64 billion hectoliters of ...

Anderson Valley Brewing Co. in Boonville, Calif., makes some awesome Goses. In fact, Brewmaster Fal Allen wrote a whole book on them. So who better to submit 6,000+ words on the topic? Part 1 covered ...

Everyone has that preconceived image of what your typical brewery goer looks like. Burly beard, flannel shirt, and oddly a lot of red hair. However, is this stereotypical brewery guest the ideal ...

Another mind-blower: Outback Steakhouse doesn’t represent Australian cuisine. Editor’s Note: When I was in Australia a couple of years ago, I ended up drinking more than a few quality craft beers at ...

Distribution is down. Shelf space is shrinking. So how do independent brewers break through? PMMI’s latest report has clues. The U.S. craft beer landscape continues to tighten. As noted in multiple ...

The Riddle of Steel: A 120-bbl cylindroconical fermenter unitank from JVNW. The craft of brewing beer is perfected and mass produced in a variety of specialized commercial vessels. From mills and mash ...

What is throughput, you ask? Bill Garvey explains below. The science of commercial beer goes beyond the chemistry of brewing. The process of packaging it is an equally impressive engineering feat, ...