May/June 2012

Industry Review Issue

For the May/June 2012 The New Brewer, we present our annual Industry Review issue. In this issue, we take a look at craft breweries’ performance in 2012 in each category: brewpubs, microbreweries, and regional breweries, as well as large breweries and imports.

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Industry Review Issue

A Banner Year for Craft

Two hundred and fifty breweries opened in the United States in 2011, providing one of many bright spots in a year in which craft brewer volumes grew 13%.

Industry Review Issue

Featured Stories

Brewpubs

Jack Curtin

Craft brewpubs turned out 768,536 barrels of beer in 2011, a 5.6% increase over the 727,547 barrels produced in 2010.

Micros

Stan Hieronymus

In 2011, the headlines were about new local breweries, ongoing growth, and the hundreds of breweries in planning. The sheer number has become a conversation itself.

Regionals

Greg Kitsock

Almost every regional craft brewery seems to have either undergone a major expansion or has drawn up blueprints for a build-out. Also, 11 more breweries joined the category.

Imports & Large Breweries

Harry Schuhmacher

The big brewers in 2011 seem to have woken up and at least have recognized the challenges posed by craft beer, spirits, wine, and non-alcoholic energy drinks.

A Note From the Editor

Jill Redding, Editor-in-Chief

This issue also includes most of our usual informative departments, plus brewery-generated news about the craft brewing community in the Brewery Updates, Distribution News, and Beer Releases sections; and new products and services from the allied trade in Industry Supplier News. In our back-page interview, we highlight Firestone Walker brewmaster Matt Brynildson.

Cheers, and we hope you enjoy this issue of The New Brewer.

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