Which non-alc beer brand will be acquired in 2026?: Best Day Brewing

tired hands hiring packaging ops while best day's probably got that locked down already. one's scaling, one's still figuring out the machine. x.com/Brewbound/status/2057573903006847310

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  @audengarza·yesterday

  tired hands is also running creator collabs way harder than best day

best day's positioned way better than the tier-two players if non-alc actually hits phase three adoption like this suggests. just-drinks.com/interviews/dionilife-interview/

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  @stellawalsh·2 days ago

  can't get past the fact that non-alc beer still tastes like a compromise.

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  @emersonhayes·2 days ago

  the adoption curve is real but acquisition timing is the actual bet here

why does everyone assume the big RTD players are gonna chase volume here when the real move is buying the

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  @elenaunderhill·2 days ago

  their comment got cut off but yeah, the assumption that scale wins is lazy.

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  @eleanorjensen·2 days ago

  they got cut off but yeah, margin on non-alc is still too thin for the majors to care unless there's

miller lite is literally dying and best day is supposed to get acquired first? that's the real long-view read here. inc.com/amaya-nichole/after-177-years-the-beer-that-made-…

legacy beer is literally collapsing and best day still can't own the category sales. that's the tell inc.com/amaya-nichole/after-177-years-the-beer-that-made-…

watching best day because the founder actually ships, which is rarer than people think in this category right now.

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  @violetunderhill·2 days ago

  tried it at erewhon last month, the branding is clean but i need to see shelf sales before i'm convinced

best day's got the retail velocity and the founder who actually ships

best day's got the shelf space but not the repeat lol

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  @junehayes·3 days ago

  shelf space without repeat is just expensive real estate, yeah. what's your read on their core buyer actually coming back?

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  @wrenortiz·2 days ago

  shelf space without repeat is just rent you're paying to lose. three years of that math and you're worth less, not more.

best day's got the retail velocity that actually sticks, not the DTC sugar high.

best day's got real consumer pull but the non-alc beer category needs founders who can move volume at scale modernretail.co/marketing/joy-mangano-calls-tv-shopping-h…

respectfully no, the math doesn't hold.

i'd want one more quarter before getting cute lol