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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.
Given some recent changes in the canning market, I thought it would be helpful to outline the key facts/figures related to craft brewers and cans. For years, craft brewers relied heavily on two package formats, bottles and draught. However, over …Read More
Traditional advertising is often viewed as inauthentic by millennials. Here are six facts your business should know about connecting with millennials.Read More
Much of the beer world’s attention in the past week was focused on the Great American Beer Festival. However, the week also brought another milestone in the resurgence of local American brewing, with the Brewers Association database passing 4,000 active …Read More
Dan Wandel takes a detailed look at craft beer performance in 2015 through the important July 4 holiday period and into late summer.Read More
One of the most frequent questions I get, from brewers and media alike, is what’s the next IPA? In case you’ve spent the last decade on an arctic expedition looking for lost beer, IPAs are on a bit of a …Read More
Craft continued its dizzying double-digit growth for the fifth year in a row in 2014. While the segment’s growth remained robust, some clouds became more evident as craft kept climbing. A number of deals to purchase all or part of …Read More
In this seminar, leading beer industry economists Bart Watson and Lester Jones help breweries learn how to find and use industry and government data for demand planning, market planning and business development. Read More
If you missed the previous iteration, this is the second edition of a new quarterly series on the state of the craft brewing industry. Q1’s updates can be found here. For Q2Â of 2015, update topics include (click to jump to that …Read More
This Power Hour presents findings from on a Nielsen survey commissioned by BA of a large number of adults 21+ who enjoy drinking craft beer.Read More
The Brewers Association (BA) recently conducted its bi-annual comprehensive survey of America’s craft brewers to establish and share industry benchmarks and brewery operations data. This survey was developed in response to BA member requests for data that they could use …Read More
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