The Beer Hub
September 2025 brings leadership changes, innovative packaging trends, and market shifts across the global craft beer sector, highlighting resilience and adaptation.
Recent reports reveal a complex landscape for craft beer in 2025, marked by production declines yet growth opportunities in hyperlocal markets and cannabis-infused drinks.
Great Northern Ginger Beer redesigns its cans for better market fit while the craft beer sector adapts to evolving consumer preferences and health trends worldwide.
The global craft beer market faces mixed signals in 2025 with a projected long-term growth amid short-term volume declines, evolving consumer preferences, and emerging trends such as cannabis-infused beverages and health-conscious options.
The 2025 craft beer industry navigates consolidation, evolving consumer health trends, and emerging cannabis market crossover while small breweries show resilience.
The U.S. craft beer market sees a decline in brewery numbers and production this year, while innovative new taprooms and emerging hop varieties signal evolving consumer demand.
US craft breweries face rising packaging costs after tariff expansions on aluminium can parts while global craft beer markets show mixed results amid evolving consumer trends.
US breweries contend with rising packaging costs from new aluminium tariffs, as AB InBev pledges a $15 million investment in its US operations to sustain jobs and supply chains.
Despite overall industry setbacks, US craft beer sees pockets of growth fueled by health-conscious consumers and hyperlocal breweries expanding their reach.
August 2025 highlights increasing sustainability efforts in brewing, challenges in the U.S. craft beer market, North Korean brewery exports to Russia, global craft beer growth projections, and innovative CO2 capture collaborations.