Beer News – Best Beer Labels of 2025 / Anheuser-Busch Makes More Money With Less Beer

(Xul Beer / Image courtesy of ANGRYBLUE)

We think beer label art is important. And on March 5^th USA Today announced its Readers’ Choice Top 10 Best Beer Labels. Weve them, “Words to Drink By,” and more.

Best Beer Labels of 2025

A craft beer label’s look is important. It’s doorway into the drinking experience – both a reflection on and an invitation to the brewer’s art.

And on March 5^th USA Today announced its Readers’ Choice Top 10 Best Beer Label. These 10 beer labels, nominated by an expert panel and voted as the best by their readers, have “mastered the art of grabbing attention, then delivering a delicious brew.”

Don’t Answer The Phone – Xul Beer Company (Knoxville, Tennessee)
Homeslice – City Built Brewing Company (Grand Rapids, Michigan)
Dan The Wiser – Kinkaider Brewing Co. (multiple locations, Nebraska)
Ever Haze – Tripping Animals (Doral and Oakland Park, Florida)
When We Swung From The Rafters and Danced Upon Bars – Burial Beer Co. (Asheville, North Carolina)
Stout at the Devil – Straight to Ale (Huntsville, Alabama)
Bigfoot – Sierra Nevada Brewing Co. (Chico, California and Mills River, North Carolina)
Winter Grind – Mother’s Brewing Company (Springfield, Missouri)
Cran Orange Wheat Ale – Great Lakes Brewing (Cleveland, Ohio)
Age of Otters IPA – 3 Floyds Brewing (Munster, Indiana)

Words to Drink By

“People are complicated. Relationships are complicated. But you remember when someone has been good to you.” – Bob Lefsetz, Music industry writer and media analyst

Anheuser-Busch Makes More Money With Less Beer

Anheuser-Busch, home to bestselling beer brands such as Budweiser, Michelob Ultra Bud light is selling less beer and making more money as it increased prices and operated more efficiently.

In February the mega-brewer shared it fourth-quarter results with investors and shared that its underlying earnings rose 3% to $14.84 billion. At the same time, organic volume growth fell by 1.9% in the fourth quarter, which was offset by a 5.4% boost from price.

But all was not great for the world’s biggest brewer…

North America volumes fell by 1.1%, as the company leaned on Michelob Ultra and Busch Light to offset the lingering weakness from Bud Light sales, which lost its once unassailable #1 position to Modelo Especial.

According to MarketWatch, the fastest growth was in Europe, Middle East and Africa, where sales grew by 3.8% thanks to some growth in South Africa, which helped offset the 12.7% drop in the Asia Pacific region due to lower beer sales in China.

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