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Distribution Intel May 18: RNDC's Continued Unwind, RTD Cocktails Hold Ground, Legacy Brands Fall

RNDC's exit accelerates middle-tier consolidation across spirits. RTD cocktails outperform as total bev-alc weakens. Jones Soda posts 194% growth on Fallout collab. Muscle Milk reformulates for mainstream. Pabst kills Schlitz after 175 years.

Distribution Intel May 4: Hard Lemonade Is Moving Cases. Everything Else Is Adjusting.

Hard lemonade RTDs are displacing mainstream beverages at tsunami scale. Major retailers reallocating shelf space to THC, high-ABV, and non-alc. Crazy Mountain raises $15M. Lord Hobo outsources production. Premium bourbon grows while spirits decline. Capital and shelf space consolidatin...

Distribution Intel: The Reckoning. Mainstream Beer Is Dying. What's Next?

Mainstream beer is in structural decline. Boston Beer down 6.9%. Molson Coors posting volume losses. Meanwhile Vita Coco up 37% and Sazerac consolidating premium spirits. Regional distributors have a 90-day window to read the shift. Here's what the numbers mean for supply chain execs.

The Mocktail Isn't Replacing the Cocktail. It's Replacing the Water Glass.

By Jason Gotcher | BevOps Logic The smart objection to running a serious zero-proof program is velocity. A $16 mocktail might have great margins, but if it sits on the table for forty minutes while the alcoholic drinkers next to it order three cocktails, the math falls apart. Beverage directors who

THC Beverages: The Category Everyone Wants to Win, Now Operating on a 12-Month Countdown Clock

By Jason Gotcher | BevOpsLogic Let's call it: THC-infused beverages are the most exciting and most operationally cursed category in the drinks industry right now. Everyone's piling in. The federal government just started a stopwatch on most of them. Here's what's actually working,

The Great 2026 Aluminum Squeeze: Your Can Is Having a Moment

Or: how a rock from Guinea, a smelter in Quebec, and a shipping lane near Iran decided what your six-pack costs this summer. By Jason Gotcher | BevOpsLogic Let's get the bad news out of the way: the aluminum market in 2026 is, to use the technical procurement term,

PBR × Grillo's: Ritual Industrialization

The PBR × Grillo's pickle activation isn't a stunt — it's a masterclass in ritual industrialization. NASCAR infields are the perfect Petri dish. Here's why BevOps leadership should be paying attention heading into 2026. The Pre-Existing Ritual Before any brand touched it, the "

The Escondido Ghost: Why Duvel is Trading Gargoyles for Efficiency

Sapporo couldn't make the math work. Duvel can. A breakdown of why Stone Brewing is leaving Escondido and what the Firestone Walker production consolidation actually means for the three-tier system.

The SKU Apocalypse: Why Your Warehouse Is Now a $10M Jigsaw Puzzle

You didn't build a warehouse. You built a $10M jigsaw puzzle with 500 pieces, and someone has to reassemble it every single day. A deep-dive into Pick-Path Friction and the compounding cost of variety-pack proliferation.

Liquid Amortization: Applying Real Estate Financial Discipline to the Brewery Floor

The housing market has the Wealth Gap. The brewery has the Yield Gap. Here is why predictive maintenance and real-time yield tracking are no longer optional for 2026 operators.

Route Density vs. the Flavor-Chaser: Why Market Coverage Is Killing Your Margins

The beverage industry is trading volume for complexity — one niche seltzer stop at a time. A route profitability audit of what a single 20-minute delivery stop actually costs.

The SKU Squeeze: Every New RTD Flavor Is a Logistical Tax

Adding SKUs feels like growth. The warehouse labor data says otherwise. A first-principles look at Pick-Path Friction and why 500 SKUs costs more than ten times as much to operate as 50.