Breweries Slightly More Optimistic, But Challenges Remain
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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No brewery works in a silo. Brewers Association staff, including Chief Economist Bart Watson, keep close tabs on the statistics and trends that affect the entire craft brewing community. Keep up with the latest numbers to ensure the success and growth of your business using the resources in this category.
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
Craft brewers continued many of the 2018 trends through 2019, but the future now has a giant question mark for many breweries in the era of COVID-19.
For the May/June 2020 The New Brewer, we provide both a current look at the ways the pandemic has affected craft breweries and a look back at 2019.Read More
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On-premise business is beginning to reopen. This post explores some of the new data points showing what things might look like over the next few months.Read More
Are Americans really drinking more? The answer: possibly a tiny bit, but these answers are much less clear than many articles have made them out to be.Read More
Brewers Association Chief Economist Bart Watson overviews the main statistics and trends in the craft brewing industry in 2019. The talk covers high level trends in craft brewing, similar to the State of the Industry session presented by Bart Watson …Read More
The Brewers Association released our topline 2019 craft growth numbers today. This post is just a reminder about how we collect our data and a few thoughts.Read More
Last week, the Brewers Association launched a second survey designed to gauge the impact the current crisis on small brewers. Here are the results.Read More
Brewers Association Chief Economist Bart Watson delves into some of the potential short- and long-term economic impacts of the novel coronavirus on craft beer.Read More