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USA | End of an era. Again. Stone is being sold to a global brewing conglomerate for the second time in four years. The Stone brand will live on – its beer will continue to be brewed by Firestone Walker, a Californian brewery that is part-owned by Belgium’s Duvel. But Stone’s physical presence in Richmond, Virginia, is gone after the closure of its taproom on 14 May.
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USA | Brown-Forman rejected a USD 32-per-share cash takeover offer from rival Sazerac, the Wall Street Journal learnt on 11 May, weeks after talks between the Jack Daniel's maker and France's Pernod Ricard fell apart.
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USA | AB-InBev has closed on the USD 360 million sale of its brewery near Newark airport in New Jersey, media reported on 2 May. Goodman North America Management, with a USD 6 billion portfolio of real estate for industrial and data centre use, acquired the manufacturing complex in March, according to filed deeds.
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USA | Donald Trump said on 1 May he will remove all tariffs and restrictions on whisky imports in honour of King Charles and Queen Camilla's state visit. The UK government confirmed this applies to all whisky tariffs, including Irish whiskey.
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USA | Stone Brewing is changing hands again. Duvel Moortgat USA and Firestone Walker will acquire the Stone brand (“Arrogant Bastard”) from Sapporo for an undisclosed sum, media reported on 21 April.
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USA | Craft beer production dropped again in 2025, down 5.1 percent to 21.9 million barrels beer in 2025, the Brewers Association (BA) reported on 15 April. Even so, craft slightly increased its share of the total beer market to 13.3 percent, from 13.2 percent in 2024. The beer category overall declined 5.7 percent by volume.
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USA | Boston Beer may have to pay Ardagh Metal Packaging some USD 175.5 million in damages, after an Illinois jury issued a verdict in favour of the packaging supplier. In its lawsuit against Boston Beer in 2022, Ardagh alleged that Boston Beer fell short in contractual minimum purchases of aluminium cans from 2021 to 2025.
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USA | What a great way to honour a person. The Michael James Jackson Foundation, founded by Garret Oliver of Brooklyn Brewery in honour of the late British beer writer, said that in just five years since its inception, it has assisted 71 individuals in entering the brewing and distilling industries. The non-profit foundation is dedicated to providing education scholarships to people of colour in the United States.
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Canada | And about time too. On 1 April (no joke) the federal government announced an additional two-year extension of the 2 percent cap on the annual alcohol excise duty inflation adjustment, and of the 50 percent reduction on excise duty rates for the first 15,000 hl of beer brewed in Canada, effective 1 April 2026.
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USA | Shares of Constellation Brands were slightly down on 8 April, after the beer, wine and drinks producer said it pulled a longer-term forecast, citing an “evolving socio-economic backdrop and limited near-term visibility”.
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