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This may sound like a backhanded compliment, but while craftbeer sales continue to slow, the situation isn’t nearly as grim as it was this time last year. craftbeer sales totalled $4.7 Circana compiled the sales data into a list revealing the top 10 best-selling craftbeer brands going into 2024.
The alcohol industry stands out as it undergoes changes that are not only fundamental but also unique, driven by changing consumer preferences, technological advancements, and shifting demographics. One of the key factors driving the non-alcohol trend is the ‘sober curious’ movement. in 2022 to 3.9%
Although the dominance of India Pale Ale has led to memes, rants, and Reddit posts about craftbeer’s homogeneity, the U.S. craftbeer scene is a lot more varied than it might appear. Occasionally, they even represent the best-selling craftbeer on the market. It’s great for the style.
But to Sarah Hallonquist and Loretta Andro Chung, one category was lacking: lesbian bars, of which just three existed as recently as 2022. They bonded over their love of beer, lamenting that few mainstream beer brands catered to the queer community outside of Pride Month. This is a new market for craftbeer.”—Sarah
It was pigeonholed as a drink for kids,” says Alex Doman, the co-founder and CEO of AVEC Drinks , which makes an alcohol-free cider flavored with cardamom. Craftbeer distorts the concept of locality. He departed Angry Orchard in 2022 and soon began fermenting apples for Occam Cider. They’re beverage-alcohol drinkers.”
By Mike Gurr, Vice President of Operations at Gruvi For 15 years, I was deeply immersed in the world of craftbeer. 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.
By Mike Gurr, Vice President of Operations at Gruvi For 15 years, I was deeply immersed in the world of craftbeer. 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.
Integrating activities creates “a healthier approach to alcohol.” La Doña’s soccer field, which the brewery temporarily took down in 2022 to accommodate construction, hosts leagues and instructional classes for young children on weekend mornings. People now play sports “pretty much from sunup to sundown,” Ashburn says.
San Diego’s Mike Hess Brewing has created a special beer for City Tacos to commemorate the 10th anniversary of the popular taco restaurant. alcohol-by-volume (ABV) and has flavors of fresh citruses. We believe the beer will pair well with any of our nearly 20 tacos on the menu.” In June of 2022, he became a US citizen.
One year ago, I took to VinePair’s digital pages to rebuke craftbeer brewers and enthusiasts who spent this popular annual rite of abstinence complaining about breweries’ lost sales on social media. You know that drinkers want flavorful non-alcoholic beverages during Dry January. Are you ready? OK, here goes. There you have it.)
Photo: Original 40 Brewing Company San Diego has a pair of new craftbeers, one of them a 9.0 AVB (alcohol-by-volume) double IPA. who joined Original 40 in May 2022, called Big Tings his “favorite West Coast Double IPA I’ve created here. Special beer-pairing or wine-pairing dinners are also available.
All of them have been gathered together for a project that’s the brainchild of Charolette Converse that will see 113 women, non-binary or trans participants (as of publish time) joining together to not just make a one-off beer, but to create a community to “network, educate and inspire their fellow women in the craftbeer industry.”
Last year British drinks conglomerate Diageo, which owns Guinness, claimed it was the most popular pub pint in Britain (which was true, albeit only for a four-week period in the run-up to Christmas 2022). As a category, stout grew from 6.9 percent of the market during 2023. . “It’s a very social drink, it just sparks conversation.”
If you compiled all of the headlines covering craftbeer over the past 12 months and gave your summation on the state of the industry, you might grumble something about a Bob Dylan song in between sips of your Flavortown spiked fruit punch. ” —Joe Stange, managing editor at CraftBeer & Brewing Blindhouse Beer Roanoke, Va.
Craft spirits demand “reached a fever pitch during the pandemic,” Spoelman says. That lasted until November 2022.” At that point, he explains, the rate of alcohol sales across the board slowed dramatically. From 2017 to 2022, craft spirits sales went from $3.7 We switched in 2022 to entrench. billion to $7.9
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Writing this feature in 2024, I’m tempted to recycle a similar piece I did on craftbeer circa 2017. It’s not uncommon to say that the whiskey industry is five to seven years behind craftbeer in terms of trends. Will the industry fall into a similar trap as what has happened with craftbeer?
Since the dawn of craftbeer, bars have played a pivotal role in the boom of American brewing. Nowhere is this more true than at the more specialized spots: the beer bars, as we know them, with their thoughtful selections across tap lines and bottle lists, and their dedication to service, atmosphere, and education.
As the no/low-alc trend continues throughout the industry , craftbeer pioneer Sierra Nevada Brewing Co. Our innovation brewers have been working for years to perfect a flavorful, satisfying non-alcoholic brew,” says Lesley Albright, VP of Marketing at Sierra Nevada Brewing Co. “We Both begin hitting shelves in December 2023.
Instead of an imperial stout or lambic of great vintage, Wedeking had squirreled away four expired cans of Busch Light Apple, a flavored lager that was discontinued in 2022. Hoarding is familiar behavior in beverage alcohol, from loading car trunks with Tree House IPAs or stocking cellars with bourbon from W.L.
Greene King Brewery is launching two new craftbeers, Hazy Day and Prior Life, into the market this month as it looks to grow its craft portfolio further. This beer is a tribute to the original Bury St Edmunds master brewers, the Benedictine monks, whose ghosts are said to still walk the Abbey today.
In August 2022, In Good Company acquired Fourpure and Magic Rock, bringing the brands back into British ownership. While our heritage and DNA has been and will always be in craftbeer, thanks to the phenomenal breadth of expertise in our team, we have capabilities well beyond this and are keen to capitalise on this as the business evolves.
It’s a gorgeous and artfully craftedbeer, and it’s a lot of fun to drink.” North Park Beer Company Kiwi to Bogey 5.4% In general, I gravitated toward balanced and lower-alcohol, yet flavor-forward, beers. Suarez Family Brewery Be It Known 5.3% ” —Lee Lord, head brewer at Narragansett Brewing Co.,
In August 2022, In Good Company acquired Fourpure and Magic Rock, bringing the brands back into British ownership. Since then, the business has made a number of strategic changes which have buoyed profitability and helped it grow at pace.
craftbeer production has more or less plateaued in recent years, the NA market continues to explode. According to Global Market Insights , the NA beer market was valued at over $22 billion in 2022, and is expected to nearly double over the next 10 years. Although U.S. Let’s just say we’ve come a long way from O’Doul’s.
China’s thirst for American craftbeer hasn’t yet peaked (unlike Americans’ own) and its drinkers’ interest is piqued. China’s higher-end beer market also returned to growth in [the first half of] 2023 vs 2022, boosted by strong performances from local brands, and from international products in the reopening on-premise.”
It’s safe to say that the craftbeer boom has now reached nearly every corner of the globe. Athens, Greece Credit: Athineo / Constantinos Kollias via Unsplash Beer production in Athens dates back to 3300 B.C. The five-hour CraftBeer Brewery Tour includes three stops, an interactive brewery tour, and 13 tastings.
. “North America is the best and largest market,” Atsushi Katsuki, president and chief executive of Asahi Group Holdings, the biggest of Japan’s rice-lager titans, told Reuters in August 2022. in 2022 ; Kirin scooped up New Belgium Brewing in 2019 , and Bell’s in 2021. the 13th-largest craft brewer in the country.
The energy drink giant muscled its way into the beverage-alcohol business by buying CANarchy Collective for $330 million in early 2022, then took its sweet time rolling out its first new hard drink, unleashing The Beast Unleashed in early 2023. too, which SUSA acquired in 2022 , relegating the San Francisco brewery to second fiddle.
The alcohol-free category continues to thrive. Spirit-free bars and bottle shops are popping up across the United States, and curious consumers can now peruse aisles of zero-proof spirits, wine, beer, and RTDs. Before they knew it, they were craftingalcohol-free beverages to educate the curious about new products.
All alcohol-containing beers are taken off the taplist for this monthly event, and bartenders instead serve the brewerys Two Frays Near Beer. Lockdown alcohol consumption, where Zoom happy hours might occur any hour, couldnt last forever. A Fresh Squeezed Non-Alcoholic IPA from Deschutes Brewery in Bend, Oregon.
For example, a cocktail’s base spirit can be no greater than 1 1/2 ounces, and added liqueurs and modifiers must still keep the total alcohol quantity below 2 1/2 ounces. “I Fisher Brewing Company Hugely popular with Utah’s outdoorsy set, Fisher Brewing also stands as a piece of the state’s craftbeer history.
The merger at the start of the year is an interesting defensive maneuver in a rapidly changing craftbeer marketplace. And the beer is, well, to die for. Ghost Town has won multiple GABF [Great American Beer Festival] medals, including twice for their Double IPA, Nose Goblin, which picked up a gold in 2022 and a bronze in 2024.
According to Mark Van Pee, who has been tracking brewery numbers for consumer group Zythos for the past decade, Belgian brewings modern peak came in 2022 , when there were 430 physical breweries and 309 beer companies, which dont own brewing equipment. His most popular beers are IPAs but thats not typical in Belgium.
Maybe it evolves into a year of alcohol abstinence, or perhaps zebra striping becomes the new norm when the weekends roll around. Whatever the case may be, anyone opting to put down the booze for a while is in luck, as the non-alcoholicbeer market is absolutely booming right now. percent in 2023.
A reliable punchline in the American craftbeer industry is that premium craft lagers are just about to catch on. Cider is no punchline, but it simply doesn’t punch at the same weight as the United States’ mainstream beverage-alcohol categories. 2023 was no breakout for the fourth-category comer, either. Cider was up 1.9
In October 2022, two of the largest grocers in the country announced plans to become one. But if ever there was a time for the American craftbeer business to root against a marriage, it’d be this one, and right now. From the first, the engagement was poorly received.
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