Beer industry news with the caveats left in.
Brewbound Podcast is trade-floor audio for the beer industry, built around market moves, production data, distribution shifts, and brewery operators. It mixes quick news interpretation with interviews that stay close to pricing, taprooms, compliance, M&A, and the realities behind glossy announcements.
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Brewbound Podcast treats beer as an industry with spreadsheets, personalities, hard pivots, and very little room for vague corporate phrasing. It is sharply focused on the business side of brewing. Recent conversations range from Brewers Association Top 50 production lists to craft scans, Tilray earnings, brewery platform proliferation, and the steady churn of acquisitions across beverage alcohol. The show likes data, but it rarely lets data sit there untouched. A ranking change becomes a question about demand. A market exit becomes a conversation about freight, nearby consumers, and whether chasing faraway shelves ever made sense. A licensing deal gets tested against vanished websites, quiet social accounts, and the practical signs that a brand has already run out of road. That rhythm gives the show its trade-publication feel. It is current, specific, and comfortable assuming the audience knows why distribution, on-premise sales, c-stores, state rules, and scan performance matter. The tone is not sterile. The regular voices joke about data Christmas, awkward naming conventions, conference exhaustion, and the occasional industry term that seems built to die in a style guide. Still, the jokes usually point back to a business issue. Interviews widen the frame without softening it. Dave Infante brings sharper M&A and distributor analysis. Bart Watson gives Brewers Association context around CBC. John Simperman talks through 42 North Brewing’s taproom, pricing, food, staffing, and lower-ABV demand. Other episodes look at Oxbow, Baxter and Orono, Ikasu Brewing, GABF, NBWA, BrewDog’s identity questions, and craft distilling’s growing presence at beer events. The show is strongest when it connects boardroom news to the brewery floor. It asks who benefits, who gets squeezed, and what a deal or trend might mean once the announcement fades.
Made for: Built for brewery operators, beverage-alcohol professionals, distributors, suppliers, trade reporters, and serious craft beer followers who care about how the category actually works. It suits listeners who want market context more than tasting notes.
What sets it apart: The show pairs fast trade-news recap with practical interpretation from people steeped in beer industry reporting. It is especially good at turning production lists, deals, and conference chatter into grounded questions about strategy, distribution, pricing, and demand.
The Brewbound Podcast is an extension of Brewbound's leading B2B beer industry reporting, featuring interviews with beer industry executives and entrepreneurs, along with highlights and commentary from the weekly news. New episodes are released every Thursday. Send comments and suggestions to [email protected].
Based on 6 episodes we listened to · September 2026
Brewbound Podcast turns beer-industry deals, distribution shifts, and taproom decisions into clear business consequences.
Brewbound Podcast treats beer as an operating business, following the pressures behind brewery sales, distribution changes, taproom economics, production rankings, and leadership transitions.
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A clear, business-minded read of the brewery ranking shifts and the pressures behind them.
The Brewbound Podcast uses the Brewers Association's Top 50 Lists as a clean way into a wider market conversation. Rather than treating the rankings as a scoreboard, it follows the movement behind them: which breweries rose or slipped, which names entered or exited, and what…
A grounded look at brewery platforms, equity, distribution agreements, and licensing complications.
Craft-beer consolidation can look simple on paper, but ownership, distribution agreements, and state licensing rules rarely move in step. The Brewbound team uses IndieBrew to unpack brewery platforms and collectives, including why these arrangements may involve equity and why a…
A brisk look at beverage-alcohol dealmaking, centered on the middle tier and smaller suppliers.
A wave of beverage-alcohol dealmaking gives this Brewbound episode its momentum, as Dave Infante of The Finger's Booze Letter walks through distribution deals, brand deals, and the industry's recent habit of moving into nearby categories.
An Oxbow leadership change opens into a sharp look at consolidation, new categories, and the business logic shaping beer.
Brewbound Podcast uses the handoff at Oxbow as a clean way into the beer business's current pressures. The conversation widens quickly, tying that leadership change to the energy around the New England Craft Brew Summit, the region's broad showing, and the expansion that…
42 North turns shifting taproom habits into a practical lesson in menus, margins, and guest experience.
42 North Brewing gives this Brewbound Podcast episode its strongest throughline, with founder John Simperman laying out how the taproom is adapting as guests arrive earlier, stay out for shorter stretches, and drink less than they did in the mid-2010s.
A focused conference preview shows how structured networking can make an industry gathering more useful.
Making Moves comes through as a grounded look at how professional connection is being built for women in beer. Kim McInnish, NBWA's COO and SVP, helps set the frame by separating BREW, the NBWA effort focused on recruiting and retaining women in the middle tier, from the…
A brisk, operator-minded discussion of craft beer data, partnerships, licensing complications and discontinued crossover brands.
Craft beer headlines open into a useful discussion of how beverage companies handle partnerships, licensing deals and shifting business arrangements.
Odd questions, followed patiently down to the incentives.
Co-hosts Jessica Infante and Zoe Licata discuss the new dietary guidelines for alcohol and share personal updates about Harry Styles and The Traitors.
The Brewbound Podcast discusses top 50 breweries, a craft brewery merger, and interviews Ibotta's CRO about their digital couponing platform.
The Brewbound Podcast hosts discuss their weekend activities, including fantasy football, Bad Bunny's concert, and drinking various beers, before introducing a segment on AleSmith's 30th anniversary.
The Brewbound Podcast hosts preview the NBWA's Making Moves Conference with Kim McKinnish, focusing on empowering women in the beer industry.
The Brewbound Podcast hosts discuss Q1 craft beer scan data showing a decline after initial gains.
Stateside Brands president Matt Quigley says Super Light had sold about 2.3 million cases since launch, versus a prelaunch success target of 5,000.
Data Christmas hits Brewbound.
Brewbound Podcast ties together Circona craft scans, Tilray's BrewDog reset, and distributor SKU cuts while the hosts question the term "daycap." Justin Kendall, Jessica Infrante, and Zoe Licata host as Brewbound reporters covering beer sales, on-premise data, and craft-brand strategy.
Dave Infante jokes that he tried to buy Brown-Forman for $75 and Four Loko for $90, which sets up a Brewbound conversation about the current BevAlc deal frenzy.
Justin Kendall and Jessica Infante discuss the upcoming CBC and Justin's experience at the New York State Craft Brewers Conference.
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Tim Adams says Oxbow and Rising Tide are strongest when they cover "pretty much any account" with the right beer.
42 North founder John Simperman says the brewery has leaned into "the total guest experience" at its 4,500-square-foot East Aurora taproom, with food and programmed events now driving a larger share of revenue.
The Brewbound Podcast team recaps the 2025 Great American Beer Festival and NBWA Annual Convention in Las Vegas, discussing changes like a new second stage and craft distilling section.
The Brewbound Podcast hosts discuss AleSmith's 30th anniversary and share personal weekend stories involving beer, fantasy football, and entertainment.