The IRI Group has recently reworked their beer styles data and the results provide new insights into the changing nature of craft brewing over time. Their data can now be broken into approximately 100 styles, of which 89 could be considered traditional beer styles or categories used primarily for beer (mix packs are a good […]
Digging Deeper Into Beer Styles
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Bart Watson
, Vice President of Strategy & Chief Economist
Vice President of Strategy & Chief Economist
Bart Watson, Vice President of Strategy & Chief Economist for the Brewers Association, is a stats geek, beer lover, and Certified Cicerone®. He holds a PhD from the University of California, Berkeley, where in addition to his dissertation, he completed a comprehensive survey of Bay Area brewpubs one pint at a time. You can follow him on X, formerly known as Twitter, @BrewersStats.
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