
Brewbound Podcast
by Brewbound
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- 🇺🇸US · Business News#9530K to 100K
- 🇧🇷BR · Business News#9510K to 30K
- 🇲🇽MX · Business News#9610K to 30K
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19K to 61K🎙 Daily cadence·376 episodes·Last published today - Monthly Reach
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64K to 203K🇺🇸49%🇧🇷15%🇲🇽15%+3 more - Active Followers
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Hard Sports Drinks, Industry Layoffs and Pabst's Stolen Beer
Sep 2, 2026
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Dave Infante on Diageo's Cuts, Garage Beer's Data Center Cooling Plan and BuzzBallz and Pop-Tarts' Boozy Collab
Aug 26, 2026
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Do We Need Another NA Version of a Legacy Beer Brand?
Aug 19, 2026
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The Beer Industry's New Era of Competition
Aug 12, 2026
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CEO Michelle Ivey Dives Into Lake Hour's Strategy
Aug 5, 2026
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| Date | Episode | Topics | Guests | Brands | Places | Keywords | Sponsor | Length | |
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| 9/2/26 | Hard Sports Drinks, Industry Layoffs and Pabst's Stolen Beer | The summer selling season wraps up this weekend with Labor Day Monday, and one of the hottest segments of the summer has been hard sports drinks. Brewbound editor Justin Kendall and senior reporter Zoe Licata dive into the fast-growing segment and how their views have shifted on it over the last year. They look at who is leading the segment now and new entrants looking to fast-follow, including Boston Beer Company. The duo also recap several rounds of layoffs, including Sapporo USA's wind-down of the Stone Brewing-branded locations in Escondido, California; Mark Anthony's integration of the Finnish Long Drink and coming sales team cuts; and Diageo's ongoing $1.2 billion restructuring effort hitting its NYC headquarters. Plus, Justin and Zoe discuss low-ABV beers (and Justin cracks Sierra Nevada's new Go-Two IPA) and Pabst's viral stolen beer marketing campaign. | — | ||||||
| 8/26/26 | Dave Infante on Diageo's Cuts, Garage Beer's Data Center Cooling Plan and BuzzBallz and Pop-Tarts' Boozy Collab | Fingers boozeletter author Dave Infante joins the Brewbound Podcast to deep dive Diageo's ongoing restructuring and workforce slashing under CEO Sir Dave Lewis (aka "Drastic Dave" for his reputation for making big cuts at previous stops). Infante shares insights from his reporting and conversations with Diageo employees, many of whom wondered why the Guinness and Johnnie Walker maker was so slow to adapt to the modern bev-alc competitive landscape. "The frustration that I heard from current and former Diageo employees was mostly about why weren't we doing this before we had to start laying everyone off," Infante tells Brewbound editor Justin Kendall and managing editor Jessica Infante (no relation). "You don't have to get to this point before you start pivoting to RTDs." The trio also hit recent headlines, including Garage Beer and Liquid Death tapping into the real world animosity around data centers and BuzzBallz's recent Pop-Tarts partnership. Jessica offered a theory on the BuzzBallz-Pop-Tarts team up: "Kids aren't eating Pop-Tarts. You know who's eating Pop-Tarts? Sad, elder millennials who can't afford anything else and want a tiny treat. The moms who would be out marching on the capitol up in arms against this aren't feeding that to their kids." "They're the ones who are intrigued by the BuzzBallz Pop-Tarts that they saw on Instagram," Dave adds. "That's definitely going into their Stanley tumblers," Jess says. | — | ||||||
| 8/19/26 | Do We Need Another NA Version of a Legacy Beer Brand? | Does every beer need a non-alcoholic (NA) analog? The Brewbound team discusses on the latest episode of the Brewbound Podcast. As Molson Coors prepares to launch an NA version of Leinenkugel's Summer Shandy, Brewbound editor Justin Kendall questions whether the product is trend chasing or if consumers are clamoring for it. Managing editor Jessica Infante gets White Claw Zero flashbacks, while senior reporter Zoe Licata offers a different perspective after exploring NA ciders. The trio also analyze recent headlines, including: Samuel Adams taproom workers' plans to unionize and Boston Beer's response, so far; And B3 Beverage's "complicated" partnerships, with a deal for Yards Brewing going forward and others falling through. | — | ||||||
| 8/12/26 | The Beer Industry's New Era of Competition | The decade-long consent decree that allowed Anheuser-Busch InBev's (A-B) MegaBrew merger with SABMiller to go forward expired in July, removing guardrails that had been placed on the world's largest beer manufacturer by the Department of Justice to ensure competition in the marketplace. Chris Jones, managing director of Central Market Strategies, joins this week's Brewbound Podcast to explore what competition looks like in a post-consent decree beer industry. Jones argues the consent decree did its job, creating a competitive environment that allowed new brands over the last decade such as Athletic Brewing, Mark Anthony Brands' White Claw and Boston Beer's Truly Hard Seltzer to become category leaders in non-alcoholic (NA) beer and hard seltzer, respectively, while also preventing A-B "from using its massive size as the world's largest brewer to disrupt the market." WIth the consent decree's guardrails down, including the removal of an independent monitor who maintained compliance by handling claims of interference and coercion, there now exists "a lot more risk in the system of this market power and abuses of market power that could result from the size and scale of the largest brewer," Jones said. Going forward, it will be important to track national market share in an already "highly concentrated market" and middle-tier consolidation in the years ahead, he added. Listen to the full conversation with Brewbound managing editor Jessica Infante here. Before the conversation, Brewbound editor Justin Kendall and senior reporter Zoe Licata join Jess to run through the latest news, including Lawson's Finest Liquids' first NA beer, what distributors say is on their cut lists, a distributor territory swap in the Northeast and "warm beer takes" on the latest NFL beer marketing. | — | ||||||
| 8/5/26 | CEO Michelle Ivey Dives Into Lake Hour's Strategy | How can a new brand make a splash in the increasingly crowded ready-to-drink waters? A winning combination of differentiated flavors, artistic packaging and a willingness to work the market day in and day out. That's what has been working for Lake Hour, according to CEO Michelle Ivey, this week's featured guest. RTD canned cocktail brand Lake Hour launched three years ago amid the segment's meteoric rise. Its co-founders – actor Wyatt Russell and film producer Rich Peete – had no prior beverage experience, and tapped Ivey, an industry vet, as CEO in late 2025. "Once I tried it, I realized it was one of those, 'actually' brands that when you take a sip, you're like 'Wow, actually, this is great. This tastes so good,'" Ivey said. "And so, I was so impressed with what they did and what they built two years in as startup founders that have had no experience in the industry." Before the interview, the Brewbound team discusses recent headlines, including a proposed reprieve for intoxicating hemp beverages, how many retailers sold out of various bev-alc products during the World Cup and how Anheuser-Busch InBev views itself relative to spirits giants. | — | ||||||
| 7/29/26 | RNDC's Unpaid Tab, Craft's Mid-Year Number and Boston Beer's Rally Dog | Republic National Distributing Company (RNDC) is leaving a big unpaid tab. The distributor filed for Chapter 11 bankruptcy this week, with liabilities between $1 billion and $10 billion, and more than 100,000 creditors. In this episode of the Brewbound Podcast, Brewbound editor Justin Kendall and senior reporter Zoe Licata dive into the bankruptcy filing, as well as the fallout, with many suppliers left wondering if they'll ever get paid back. Justin and Zoe also catch up on the other big headlines, including the Brewers Association's (BA) 2026 mid-year report, with projected craft volume declines of 4%. They discuss why the news isn't all bad – with a majority of respondents reporting growth – and why it's not all good. The conversation shifts to Boston Beer's second-quarter results and Sun Cruiser's growing importance to the company's bottomline. They also explore Boston's growing fast-follower innovation strategy, including Rally Dog, a potential hard sports drink challenger brand. Plus, they touch on if beer companies might be walking back their opposition to the spirits industry's equalization efforts. Finally, seasonal creep is here and real as pumpkin beers are already popping up on store shelves. It's a quick, fun recap of the latest news. Listen here. | — | ||||||
| 7/22/26 | The Magic of Airport Beers with Experience Threee's Liz Einhorn | The pre-flight beer ranks high on many people's lists of simple pleasures, but what does it take for that beer to end up in a pint glass? Experience Threee founder Liz Einhorn joins this week's episode of the Brewbound Podcast to discuss the complexities of beer service in airport concessions. She shares the pros and cons of brewery-branded airport taprooms and what it takes to secure (and keep) a draft line in a busy airport bar. Before the interview, Justin and Jess break down the latest beer industry headlines, including a lawsuit between Ballast Point's owners over allegedly ill-gotten business loans, new leadership at the National Black Brewers Association and James Watt's second attempt to buy back BrewDog. | — | ||||||
| 7/15/26 | non-alcoholic beercraft beer+3 | Tate Huffard | Michelob Ultra ZeroBest Day Brewing+2 | — | non-alcoholic beerBest Day Brewing+3 | — | 40m 39s | ||
| 7/8/26 | Deschutes BreweryKirkland Helles+4 | Sean McNulty | Kirkland Signature HellesDeschutes+1 | Jersey Shore | DeschutesKirkland Helles+6 | — | 26m 12s | ||
| 7/1/26 | Independence Daybeer prices+4 | — | RTD brandsAllagash | U.K.U.S.+2 | Independence Daybeer prices+4 | — | 29m 00s | ||
| 6/25/26 | World Cupbrewing+3 | Sam Hendler | Hendler Family BrewingJack's Abby+3 | BostonGillette Stadium | Hendler Family BrewingWorld Cup+3 | — | 34m 39s | ||
| 6/17/26 | non-alcoholic beerAthletic Brewing+3 | Bill Shufelt | Athletic BrewingBrewbound+1 | — | non-alcoholic beerAthletic Brewing+3 | — | 52m 56s | ||
| 6/11/26 | mid-strength beercraft brewery+3 | Fred Matt | Saranac Weekend Warrior Mid-StrengthRight Coast Spirits Italian Ice+2 | Utica, New York | F.X. Matt BrewingFred Matt+5 | — | 35m 33s | ||
| 6/3/26 | craft beerproduction data+4 | Bill CovaleskiJoe Slavick+1 | Brewers AssociationVictory Brewing+1 | Philadelphia | craft brewersproduction report+5 | — | 55m 02s | ||
| 5/27/26 | beer marketingTHC-infused beverages+3 | Andy SauerJulie Rhodes | Garage BeerKick Fizz+2 | — | Garage BeerKick Fizz+5 | — | 43m 23s | ||
| 5/20/26 | middle-tier M&Adistribution landscape+4 | Craig PurserDeepa Chungi | Mike's Dirty LemonadeNational Beer Wholesalers Association+5 | MassachusettsMinneapolis | M&Adistribution+5 | — | 51m 29s | ||
| 5/14/26 | craft breweriesleadership changes+4 | Adeline DruartAdam Bankovich | Hop WiredGhost+4 | VermontCincinnati+1 | craft breweriesleadership changes+6 | — | 47m 58s | ||
| 5/6/26 | RNDCbeverage industry+3 | Ferron SalnikerAnna Nadasdy+1 | Republic National Distributing CompanyReyes Beverage Group+6 | — | RNDCbeverage distribution+3 | — | 1h 01m 21s | ||
| 5/4/26 | beverage industryco-packing+3 | Mitch Wedemeier | Asahi Super Drynon-alcoholic beer+11 | — | Octopi BrewingAsahi+3 | — | — | ||
| 4/29/26 | Craft Brewers Conferencecraft beer narrative+3 | Brendon BoudwinHannah Ison | Brewers AssociationRNDC+5 | — | Craft Brewers Conferencecraft beer+5 | — | 40m 42s | ||
| 4/21/26 | Craft Brewers Conferencecustomer service+2 | Will Guidara | Stone BrewingFirestone Walker+10 | PhiladelphiaCalifornia+3 | Firestone WalkerDuvel USA+2 | — | 23m 30s | ||
| 4/15/26 | Ikasu BrewingJapanese culinary ingredients+2 | Masahiro Kitano | LarigatoLong Drink+12 | Los Angeles | weird beergood beer+2 | — | 37m 39s | ||
| 4/8/26 | craft beerQ1 scans+4 | — | DaycapCoop Ale Works+11 | Oklahoma City'sDallas+1 | craft beer trendsoff-premise retailers+3 | — | 33m 25s | ||
| 4/1/26 | M&Adistributor consolidation+3 | Dave Infante | Trumer PilsFour Loko+14 | U.S. | Reyes Beverage GroupSouthern Glazer's Wine & Spirits+1 | — | 49m 44s | ||
| 3/25/26 | Craft Brewers ConferenceBrewers Association+2 | Bart Watson | CBCBrewers Association+13 | Philadelphia | craft brewingtrade show+1 | — | 53m 04s | ||
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Chart history for Brewbound Podcast
Peaked at #60 in New Zealand, currently #60 in New Zealand.
| Market | Genre | Peak | Current | Trend |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| New Zealand | — | #60 | #60 | — |
| United States | — | #95 | #95 | — |
| Brazil | — | #95 | #95 | — |
| Mexico | — | #96 | #96 | — |
| Sweden | — | #97 | #97 | — |
| Ireland | — | #128 | #128 | — |
Chart Positions
6 placements across 6 markets.
Chart Positions
6 placements across 6 markets.