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The 10 Best-Selling Craft Beer Brands of 2024

VinePair

This may sound like a backhanded compliment, but while craft beer sales continue to slow, the situation isn’t nearly as grim as it was this time last year. craft beer sales totalled $4.7 Circana compiled the sales data into a list revealing the top 10 best-selling craft beer brands going into 2024.

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The Return of Honkers: This Week's Beer News

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One of Chicago’s original craft beers is coming back. We broke the news of its discontinuation back in early 2019 , calling it “the end of an era” as Goose was pivoting to beers like Old Man Grumpy and Next Coast IPA.

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One Brand Enters, WLL Leaves: This Week's Chicago-Centric Craft Beer Events & Socials

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paracaidistamx A post shared by @paracaidistamx They’re kicking things off with three new beers at Pilot Project Chicago this afternoon, and you have to love any brewery that launches with a hoppy saison as their flagship. Go check it out.

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The 10 Weirdest Beer Names of All Time

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Naming beer is an integral part of any brewerys marketing. Its the first thing a potential customer sees when eyeing a taplist or browsing the beer aisle, and therefore can make or break a potential sale. Regardless of whether or not this tactic works, weve encountered some delightfully bizarre beer names along the way.

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On Non-Alc and the Decline of Craft Beer

Dry Atlas

By Mike Gurr, Vice President of Operations at Gruvi For 15 years, I was deeply immersed in the world of craft beer. My trajectory in the beer industry—marked first by unbridled enthusiasm, a period of stagnation, and then great uncertainty—in many ways mirrors the industry’s own evolution.

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Craft Beer on the Decline, Non-Alc on the Ups

Dry Atlas

By Mike Gurr, Vice President of Operations at Gruvi For 15 years, I was deeply immersed in the world of craft beer. My trajectory in the beer industry—marked first by unbridled enthusiasm, a period of stagnation, and then great uncertainty—in many ways mirrors the industry’s own evolution.

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Midwest, Mountain, and Northleft: Meet the Latest Regional IPA Styles

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As craft beer boomed, location had scant bearing on a brewery producing directional IPAs, reducing geographic callouts to shorthand for aroma and flavor. In 2019, Odell Brewing of Fort Collins, Colo., Over time, West Coast IPA’s softened and turned tropical, while New England breweries birthed the juicy hazy IPA.

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