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Learn about craft brewery trends, including beer styles, packaging, brewery business models and market segments, demographics, and more from the craft brewing industry’s top economist, Dr. Bart Watson.
Media reports on beverage alcohol often use data in inconsistent or misleading ways to tell a narrative. To demonstrate, Bart Watson looks at the the demographic and economic factors driving beverage alcohol consumption over the past 20 years.Read More
Thousands of brewers have invested in the independent craft brewer seal, and their collective efforts are starting to show results.Read More
The Brewers Association has compiled a list of brewery closing times using the Google Maps API and our database. Here is the aggregated data.Read More
Seltzer has skyrocketed. Some of that boost can be explained by the pandemic shifting volume into off-premise, but it appears there may be a lot more going on.Read More
The Brewers Association midyear survey results suggest that brewer sentiment is improving even if the second half of the year doesn't bring growth.Read More
The first half of 2020 has been like no other for the craft brewing community. Here's a recap of the data we've gathered so far this year.Read More
Bart Watson explores where craft breweries are located and how the demographics of those locations compare to their customers and the U.S. population.Read More
In part one of this analysis, BA chief economist Bart Watson explores who craft brewery customers are and how they have evolved over recent years.Read More
Brewers Association Chief Economist Bart Watson has created a map of brewery facility counts by census tract from data pulled on June 10th, 2020. Read More
The BA's third COVID-19 impact survey was targeted at probing what has helped and hurt breweries and how their outlook has changed over the past month.Read More
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