These may turn into final closures in the wake of the pandemic. Some breweries still call themselves “temporarily” closed. The pace of openings and closures have both slowed somewhat, interpreted as functions of the maturing craft beer marketplace as well as the results of pandemic disruptions. In short, his reading of the pictures that his spreadsheets paint is that Craft Breweries are rebounding. On the Reboundīart Watson, chief economist at the Brewers Association, hosted a video press conference Tuesday where he further interpreted the numbers. So the very large brewing companies are still seeing their share of production erode slightly. The total volume of craft beer (by the BA definition of small and independent) continues to account for an increasing portion of the total beer brewed in the nation, hitting 13.1% in 2021, up from 12.2% in 2020. The barrel total for 2021, painstakingly pulled from a variety of governmental reports, sales data and self-reporting from BA members, was just shy of 25 million barrels of beer, up 8%, despite restrictions for on-premise drinking and dining in various areas of the nation for health reasons during parts of the year. And yes, the craft beer sector, by the BA definition, is still growing, essentially back from the Covid 19 dropoff in production. Īlong with the big fifty list comes a preliminary annual overview of the commercial scale of American beer. The big list features the largest fifty out of 9,118 operating brewing companies in terms of production quantity. The Brewers Association released their annual rankings of the “Top 50 Producing US Craft Brewing Companies” yesterday along with optimistic statistics about the “small and independent” sector in general.
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And Happily, the Other 9,068 Breweries Are Doing Pretty Much OK, Too