May/June 2017

Industry Review Issue

For the May/June 2017 The New Brewer, we present our annual Industry Review, recapping the statistics and highlights for the craft brewing industry in 2016. This marks our biggest-ever issue of The New Brewer, with 288 pages of industry analysis broken out by categories, brewery barrelage numbers, and 2016 brewery openings and closings. We also include photos from the Craft Brewers Conference & BrewExpo America® in Washington, D.C. as well as the Brewers Association Hill Climb.

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Industry Review Issue

Craft’s New Reality: Growth in a Competitive Market

The craft brewing industry has reached a new level of competitiveness, with increasing competition within craft and more than two brewery openings per day.

Industry Review Issue

Featured Stories

Brewpubs: Creating Synergy

Jack Curtin

Brewpubs were up nearly 15 percent in 2016, and this strong performance is welcome news since the segment is at the very heart of the craft beer industry.

Micros: Driving Craft Growth

Stan Hieronymus

Microbreweries are now the primary engine in craft growth. Seventy-eight percent of craft beer growth in 2016 came from breweries that sold fewer than 15,000 barrels.

Regionals: Under Pressure

Greg Kitsock

Craft beer volume grew 6 percent last year, but those gains weren’t spread around evenly. Fifteen of the top 25 craft breweries saw their volumes drop over 2015.

Large Breweries + Imports: No More Excuses

Harry Schuhmacher

The rise in craft beer has, for the most part, masked the slow deterioration of what is still the largest segment of the U.S. beer business.

A Note From the Editor

Jill Redding, Editor-in-Chief

This issue also includes all of our informative departments, plus brewery-generated news about the craft brewing community in the Brewery Updates, Distribution News, and Beer Releases sections; and new products and services from the allied trade in Industry Supplier News. In our back page interview, we talk to Ian Burnett of Brown Truck Brewery, which was named the Very Small Brewing Company of the Year at the 2016 Great American Beer Festival.

Cheers, and we hope you enjoy this issue of The New Brewer.

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