Q3 Survey Shows Improvement, But Sales Still Depressed
The short summary of July-September is that small brewers saw better sales than Q2, but levels that still fall far short of 2019. Read More
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Learn about craft brewery trends, including beer styles, packaging, brewery business models and market segments, demographics, and more from the craft brewing industry’s top economist, Dr. Bart Watson.
The short summary of July-September is that small brewers saw better sales than Q2, but levels that still fall far short of 2019. Read More
The Brewers Association is launching a Q3 impact survey covering the period from July-September. Please take a few minutes to fill it out.Read More
What does the future look like for the long tail of beer? Bart Watson thinks through the reasons it's hard to find a clear answer right now.Read More
Media reports on beverage alcohol often use data in inconsistent or misleading ways to tell a narrative. To demonstrate, Bart Watson looks at the the demographic and economic factors driving beverage alcohol consumption over the past 20 years.Read More
Thousands of brewers have invested in the independent craft brewer seal, and their collective efforts are starting to show results.Read More
The Brewers Association has compiled a list of brewery closing times using the Google Maps API and our database. Here is the aggregated data.Read More
Seltzer has skyrocketed. Some of that boost can be explained by the pandemic shifting volume into off-premise, but it appears there may be a lot more going on.Read More
The Brewers Association midyear survey results suggest that brewer sentiment is improving even if the second half of the year doesn't bring growth.Read More
The first half of 2020 has been like no other for the craft brewing community. Here's a recap of the data we've gathered so far this year.Read More
Bart Watson explores where craft breweries are located and how the demographics of those locations compare to their customers and the U.S. population.Read More