The Hop Pendulum: A History of the American Hops Market
The hops market has distinct cycles driven by supply and demand. A brief look at the history of American hops can help brewers understand this pendulum. Read More
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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.
The hops market has distinct cycles driven by supply and demand. A brief look at the history of American hops can help brewers understand this pendulum. Read More
Chief Economist Bart Watson takes another look at Arryved's aggregated POS data to explore pricing elasticity, seasonality and trends in formats.Read More
Brewers Association chief economist Bart Watson takes a look at 2019 trends in craft beer packaging and makes some projections for 2020.Read More
Although 2019 is officially over, we're still analyzing all of the data about how the year unfolded in craft brewing. Let's take a look at 2019 scan data. Read More
Brewers Association chief economist Bart Watson takes a look at this year's GABF medal winners and analyzes them for the first time by city. Read More
Chief economist Bart Watson has new data to analyze average beer prices at brewpubs and taprooms. Here's the first look at what he's learned.Read More
Seltzer has exploded and BA chief economist Bart Watson thinks they're here to stay. Here's the data on what this means for your brewery.Read More
Learn how Brewers Association chief economist Bart Watson estimates the number of breweries in planning and what that number really looks like today. Read More
As part of the recent human resources and salary benchmarking completed by the BA, we also completed our first benchmark of brewery owner and employee diversity, including both gender and race/ethnicity. Read More
Brewers Association chief economist Bart Watson delves deeper into the midyear growth estimate, including the midyear survey results and other sources of data used.Read More