In a recent press release, the Brewers Association announced that the craft beer business has grown significantly in the first half of 2009 (5% in dollar amount, 9% in volume):
At a time when many of the giant beer brands are declining, small and independent craft brewers are organically growing their share and slowly gaining shelf and restaurant menu space one glass of craft beer at a time.
Even more amazing than the assertion that craft beer is beating out the rest of our sad economy is the revelation that the U.S. now boasts more breweries than it has since 1910 (when the consolidation of breweries began in anticipation of Prohibition).
Is craft beer a staple of modern living, unaffected by the most dramatic economic downturn in 75 years? It is for us!
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