U.S. craft brewery count passes 1,800
This and some other insights via Brewbound’s Chris Furnari:
“I believe that full flavored/high end beer market will become 30% of beer business in next 10 years.” – Steve Hindy, @BrooklynBrewery
Grupo Modelo total brewing capacity? 70mil hectoliters or 59.5mil barrels. I guess the world drinks a lot of Corona.
AB and MillerCoors has lost 12 million barrels since 2008. That’s 167mil cases and 4bil 12oz servings.
There are currently 811 breweries in planning according to Paul Gatza of @BrewersAssoc.
In 1985 there were 26 breweries. As of 10-31-11 there were 1876 breweries, 1826 of which are classified as “craft.”
IPA’s up 41% YTD in most recent SIG Scans. Variety up 30%. Craft Belgian styles up 48%. Craft Stouts up 43% despite case price up $4.21
via Chris Furnari.
“In 1985 there were 26 breweries.”
Wonder where this stat came from. The Brewers Digest Brewery Directory for 1985 (Jan) listed over 50 US separate brewing companies and over 70 in the 1986 issue.
(Many more actual “breweries” of course, since those numbers includes multi-plant companies like A-B, Miller, Stroh, Heileman, etc).
Any indication of where all this info came from? All I could find was an earlier tweet with #bmiconference, and just one RT with this hashtag. Help?
Hi Chris, the link to Chris Furnari’s Twitter account is below the blockquote.
Oh sorry, this info came from the Beer Marketers Insight Conference. I think that’s what you were asking. I believe price tag for a ticket was over $1,000 so, naturally, yours truly had no shot at attending.