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The 10 Best-Selling Craft Beer Brands of 2024

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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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Better Together: Why Craft Breweries Are Sharing Taprooms and Brewing Systems

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As demand for craft beer spiked throughout the 2010s, breweries expanded to slake drinkers’ seemingly endless thirst for IPAs. “We Brewers choosing that path often faced beer-geek wrath, especially during the 2010s boom that brought brew kettles to cities far and wide. that began in 2019. in 2022.

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China Isn’t the Answer for U.S. Craft Brewers’ Woes, but It Could Be Part of It

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China’s thirst for American craft beer hasn’t yet peaked (unlike Americans’ own) and its drinkers’ interest is piqued. craft brewers (as defined by the BA) shipped some 12,000 barrels of beer to China in 2022, according to data assembled by the trade group. Chinese craft beer imports from the U.S.

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27 Seasonal Beer Releases Worth Traveling For [MAP]

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California: Russian River Brewing Company Pliny the Younger Availability: Late March-early April The Pliny the Younger release of 2010 pioneered line culture in American craft beer culture as we know it. over the beer’s Star Wars-centric can art. Connecticut: New England Brewing Co.

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This Week's Beer News: Are They Joking?

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To be fair, when K&C announced that they were acquiring Ballast Point in December 2019, many of us thought that was a weirdly timed April Fool’s joke. Racket asks : “Did THC Beverages Save MN Craft Beer?” So maybe this is actually brilliant? Paul in 2025. ” Maumee Bay Brewing Co. ,

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Niche Sports and Games Are Helping Breweries Score Big

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Beer is a reward for exertion, or what fans grip and sip while rooting for home teams and underdogs. Customers wear brewery merch and congregate in taprooms, bantering about smash-hit IPAs and others that swung for the fences but fell short. People attach themselves to sports the way they’ve attached themselves to beer,” Ashburn says.

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IWSR Report: U.S. Alcohol Market Set to Regain Footing After ‘Reset Year’

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According to the IWSR, inventory levels skyrocketed between December 2019 and December 2023 due to a jump in consumer demand during the height of the pandemic, and then further bolstered by supply chain disruptions. It may come as no surprise that the pandemic played a heavy hand in this downturn, particularly on the inventory front.

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