Seven Boomers will turn 50 every minute from now until 2014. The question isn’t if Baby Boomers will change the businesses of those who produce and sell alcohol-based products, but how.

New tracking systems. New sizes of kegs and new materials. Kegs that don’t return at all. Kegs with self-contained tapping systems. Enter the brave new world of draft beer.

The Brewers Association presents the results of its first operational survey for packaging brewers in an effort to help members establish industry standards for operational costs.