Beer Branding Trends

Points of discussion:

1. 2023 Beer Branding Trends Review

2. Brewhouse sizing

3. The evolving role of packaging for the startup brewery

4. An increase in food and hospitality in craft beer

5. M&A activity (buying breweries and/or forming joint ventures)

6. Where are people building breweries?

7. Lifestyle Brands

8. Reviving Heritage IP brands

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Points of discussion:

1. Rebranding NoDa Brewing [Case study]

2. NoDa Brewing

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Points of discussion:

1. Our wonderful travel experience headed out to CiderCon.

2. Hard Cider segment overview

3. There are several multi-regional cideries that would land in the top 50 breweries by production volume

4. All eyes on Angry Orchard (and Boston Beer's quizzical lack of investment in the brand)

5. Defining Hard Cider

6. Should your brewery launch a Hard Cider?

7. Brand Architecture & Fourth Category beverages we're seeing in cider

8. How far away from apples can you get and still claim to be a cider?

9. Parallels between beer and hard cider

10. NA cider's are an interesting positioning challenge

11. Exploring cider's halo effect (an inherent naturalness that comes from being tied to agriculture)

12. Gluten free as a secondary benefit

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Points of discussion:

1. Building the Cold Drinking Beer Brand. [Case Study]

2. The Virginia Beer Co.

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Points of discussion:

1. Why are package refreshes so hot right now?

2. Here’s our series thesis:

There are more breweries today in the US than anytime in history, yet consumers are drinking less beer. This has led to flat-to-declining sales for breweries of all sizes across the country. The fallout? Marketing budgets are tighter than ever.

But this comes at a time when investing in your branding, packaging and marketing is more important due to all the aforementioned competition.

This means that breweries are carefully weighing their options and investing where they expect to see an outsized return. In this landscape, package refreshes have emerged as a compelling strategy to stay top of mind with consumers.

3. Package Refresh vs. a deeper rebrand: On weighing risk vs. reward

4. Cost is subjective here

5. Your packaging is dusty (it hasn’t been updated since...)

6. You’ve gone through several in-house designers and/or agency partners and can clearly see the inconsistent label design style strata across your different brands

7. Your sales are flat (but not in a free fall)

8. Things are going well (you’re winning new placements and sales are increasing YOY) and you want to invest in your brand while the sun’s shining

9. You’ve rationalized your portfolio and want to clean everything up now that you have a clear set of priorities

10. Package Refresh as a stop gap: You’re planning on a deeper branding effort in the coming years, but still need to make a change now

11. You need to address an Intellectual Property (IP) issue

12. Email Isaac to discuss your brewery's package refresh: [email protected]

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