Off-premise craft beer sales growth continued to accelerate into July
In the July 14th four-week scan data released by the IRI group on July 25th, craft volume accelerated, showing an 18.4% increase from the same period a year ago. That raised craft’s year-to-date volume increase up to 15.2%, up from 14.4% a month ago. Craft retail dollars also increased by 20.2% for the period, and are up 17.5% year-to-date. All beer volume is still down -1.1% YTD in the IRI numbers, even after a four-week period that saw a slight uptick of 0.2% from the same period a year ago.
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